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Marty Davis employs nearly 2,000 people as CEO of his international Cambria quartz surfaces business. Three years ago, the high-energy local businessman was among Gophers athletics director Mark Coyle’s 22-person search committee to find a football coach.
After Coyle hired P.J. Fleck, the new coach invited Davis, a University of Minnesota grad, to peruse the Gophers’ practice facilities.
“I walked up the stairs to a meeting room — I had a hat on — and on the way up, three players hollered at me to take my hat off,” Davis recalled. “I learned later that one of P.J.’s policies is that you don’t have a hat on in a room.
“I thought, this guy’s got control.”
Davis and I were chatting a couple of weeks before Fleck’s team bounced Auburn with better coaching and better players in a 31-24 Outback Bowl victory. A month earlier, Coyle had signed Fleck to a seven-year, $33.25 million contract extension.
“Three years before P.J. had even won a game, I called Coyle and said, ‘that guy could run any company in this town,’ ” Davis said. “If I had an executive like that in my company, I’d sign him for as long as I could. I said, ‘Mark, you’ve got to invest with him. You get a talent like that, you’ve got to hold him. You’ve got to get him before he’s hot. I was in school here at the University when Lou Holtz left (1985). We didn’t want to lose P.J.
“Of course, Mark knew that in advance — that’s why he hired him.”
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Marty Davis employs nearly 2,000 people as CEO of his international Cambria quartz surfaces business. Three years ago, the high-energy local businessman was among Gophers athletics director Mark Coyle’s 22-person search committee to find a football coach.
After Coyle hired P.J. Fleck, the new coach invited Davis, a University of Minnesota grad, to peruse the Gophers’ practice facilities.
“I walked up the stairs to a meeting room — I had a hat on — and on the way up, three players hollered at me to take my hat off,” Davis recalled. “I learned later that one of P.J.’s policies is that you don’t have a hat on in a room.
“I thought, this guy’s got control.”
Davis and I were chatting a couple of weeks before Fleck’s team bounced Auburn with better coaching and better players in a 31-24 Outback Bowl victory. A month earlier, Coyle had signed Fleck to a seven-year, $33.25 million contract extension.
“Three years before P.J. had even won a game, I called Coyle and said, ‘that guy could run any company in this town,’ ” Davis said. “If I had an executive like that in my company, I’d sign him for as long as I could. I said, ‘Mark, you’ve got to invest with him. You get a talent like that, you’ve got to hold him. You’ve got to get him before he’s hot. I was in school here at the University when Lou Holtz left (1985). We didn’t want to lose P.J.
“Of course, Mark knew that in advance — that’s why he hired him.”
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