Hey Leeks!
There is not much to do now but buy the row boat, become as much...or as little a "fleckhead" flock member as you choose, wait until he puts a team on the field, see how that team does against Conference foes (OOC non-conference games can only hurt you and can never help you. ( Only HOOPS fans get excited about non-conference and early season games.) The number of Big Ten Wins vs. the number of Big Ten losses. Compare that to the Big Ten Standings and it will tell us how the Fleckhead Flockers who post here on this site and the other sites around GOPHERVILLE are either over-hyping or over-bashing the GOPHER Coach in comparison to the other Big Ten Football Coaches.
ALSO: do everything you can to hope that prexy k is canned (mostly for his failures in supervising the former new ad: "norwood scandal" as well as the most recent unpleasant and very unfortuante happenings surrounding the football program. A lot of damage was done to a LOT of people and the University administration did NOT cover themselves in glory. I am assuming that when prexy k. approaches the State Legislators with his hand -out asking for $147 million that they will spend a LOT of time discussing the horrible management occurring at the University of Minnesota under the direction of this administration of prexy k. TOUGH questions must be answered about how prexy k is NEVER responsible for ANYTHING at the U.
I was going to cancel my season tickets in protest of prexy k....but...have decided to buy them again and even make the mandated scholarship donation to the U. So, while I am an old guy, and these cultish "fleckisms" and the "over-the-top" boat rowing, elite claims that don't sound so elite to me and only will IF enough Big Ten Wins achieved on the football field during the 2017 season, I will say what I think I see, but give the whole situation the benefit of waiting to see how the team competes against Big Ten Competition and how this FLECKHEAD-FOOTBALL does in the Western Conference. I don't automatically think Fleck is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will judge him by his record. He has NO Big Ten Record as the U of M Football Coach....so I have NO idea how he will do. Remember, I am old...and not too fond of the hype, outrageous claims I am seeing some fans seem to think will be the outcome of this uprising, commotion and mantra stuff....but, I'm also old enough and stupid enough to realize that I guess I really don't have any better ideas at the moment. Maybe some of this crazy crap will stick and maybe even a little of it will work. I hope it does, but just don't know how to join the parade at my ripe old age and with all of "set in my own ways" attitude stuff going on.
I will try not to offend folks who have, entirely too easily and somewhat prematurely jumped on board, rowed themselves silly, elited all over themselves and have become part of the growing number of freaking flecker flockers, flocking all over the stadium for the first game. (I hope there ARE tons of them!) I guess they won't hurt anything, as long as they don't make too many outrageous claims and take themselves too seriously. Then, once Big Ten ball starts we will learn what we will learn about the first season of "flecker-ball..."
I think that is pretty darn fair and open minded for an old fart like me who will turn 70 before the first game.
I ran into LOON and his wife last season once. He is a great Gopher Fan. Many falsehoods and much misinformation was posted on this board. He is one of the most capable football observers I have ever run into. Haven't seen much of him in the last years...but, he really is one of the GREAT GOPHER Football observers I have had the chance to meet and spend a bit of time with. I think everyone knows how outrageous an angry mob can turn on an internet message board talking about a subject as emotionally charged as GOPHER FOOTBALL/and there was a lot of pretty nasty stuff that went on ten years ago with a lot of Gopher Web sites around the Twin Cities. Oh well...water over the damn...or at least damn water.
So, "...fleck is still a mystery to me....I thought he'd come in gracefully. But, he really does come in with quite a frenzy of activity...and I can see that Millennials and Gen X-ers and even some Baby boomers have probably been waiting for a flashy opening act ever since Brewster hit the scene. (I'm not comparing him to Brewster...more like the Rev. Sun...moon...stars and earth and the Moonie mania that happened long ago. That is a joke...but...the way the FLECKER is flecking and the flockers of fleckerheads are flocking to their new little god...I don't quite know what to say. It was nothing like this in 1959 when the fans were throwing trash on Murray Warmath's lawn and Ike Armstrong, the AD at the time was defending his football coach to the death rather than to let the media and the fans hang Murray in effigy.
I haven't seen any of that kind of loyalty or passion....but...flecker's flock sure loves him and thinks the world will never be the same. Maybe it won't.
In 1960, Murray won a NC though. Let's see how many games in the Big Ten Fleckball can win in 2017! Good luck to him...the flocking flecker flock and ALL of us Golden Gopher Football Fans....
Later, Leeks
