GophersInIowa
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Ok, so he fired a coach we were told repeatedly (for about a month) was more or less “schematically ok”? But today, apparently, not so much? Either we are or we are not “ok”; which is it? This has really become quite the carnival. “Year One” Looks a lot like “Year Zero”, which are codes for “don’t look too hard at what’s really going on here please”. It’s fine if a percentage of Fleck die hards want to keep believing this nonsense, it’s only football/entertainment and minuscule in terms of life - but, if this is the “sales plan” - it’s going to be a tough sell going forward in terms of attendance. At $3.5 Million for four more years, there’s probably not much choice, unfortunately. It’s too bad we’re back in this same scenario again. Unbearable and embarrassing beat downs in BIG games, then looking for rationalizations why it’s not so bad and “wait until 2021 - we’ll be soooo good then.” Oh well, maybe PJ is a mad scientist genius and it will all work out this way, but, there’s nothing I see here that looks like we’re just two years away from being a lights out team. We will see; he’s not going anywhere in the next two years I don’t think.
I think this is yet another lesson in coach speak. You have to take what a coach says to the public with a grain of salt. Fleck was never going to say "Smith needs to get his $hit together" to anyone other than Smith himself.