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The University of Minnesota used a search firm, Atlanta-based Parker Executive Search, as well as local committees to assist then-athletics director Joel Maturi in hiring football coaches Tim Brewster and Jerry Kill. The national firm and a local committee also were employed in hiring then-Gophers athletics director Norwood Teague.
But for the University’s most recent football coach selection, P.J. Fleck from Western Michigan, no search firm was hired and no outside committee was used.
The group used to identify and hire Fleck was comprised of university President Eric Kaler and Gophers athletics administrators Mark Coyle, John Cunningham, Rhonda McFarland and Julie Manning.
“I’ve done these three searches, and I’ve never used a search firm,” first-year Gophers athletics director Mark Coyle said Friday.
At Gibsons on Wednesday, Minnesota’s party of five interviewed Fleck in a private room and left without making an offer. During the interview, Harlan and Fleck’s wife, Heather, waited in an adjacent room.
On Thursday, contract talks began. Negotiation went back and forth on a few issues but went smoothly. Fleck’s deal, which is worth nearly $18.5 million over five years, is nearly identical to that of new Purdue coach Jeff Brohm, except that Brohm got an extra year.
If Fleck were to leave before the end of the contract, he would have to pay the University an amount equal to the guaranteed base salary ($1 million) for each of the remaining years on the contract and would have to notify and receive consent from the athletics director.
Fleck’s contract is expected to include a myriad of incentives that, if fully achieved, could make it worth more than $4 million annually.
Fleck can thank dramatically increased revenues from the Big Ten Network for his eye-opening deals. The Gophers’ share of conference media revenue should exceed $40 million this year.
Fleck’s incentives include bonuses for achieving academic and athletic goals. He’ll receive moving expenses, an automobile and the right to operate summer football camps.
Harlan, incidentally, is the brother of noted NFL and NBA broadcaster Kevin Harlan, who wrote the book on play-by-play announcing and whose father is former Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame CEO Bob Harlan.
Bryan Harlan also represents Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald, as well as Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
Insiders say two major University of Minnesota donors demanded to administrators that Tracy Claeys be fired as football coach.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/01/0...d-coyle-landed-p-j-fleck-without-search-firm/
Go Gophers!!
The University of Minnesota used a search firm, Atlanta-based Parker Executive Search, as well as local committees to assist then-athletics director Joel Maturi in hiring football coaches Tim Brewster and Jerry Kill. The national firm and a local committee also were employed in hiring then-Gophers athletics director Norwood Teague.
But for the University’s most recent football coach selection, P.J. Fleck from Western Michigan, no search firm was hired and no outside committee was used.
The group used to identify and hire Fleck was comprised of university President Eric Kaler and Gophers athletics administrators Mark Coyle, John Cunningham, Rhonda McFarland and Julie Manning.
“I’ve done these three searches, and I’ve never used a search firm,” first-year Gophers athletics director Mark Coyle said Friday.
At Gibsons on Wednesday, Minnesota’s party of five interviewed Fleck in a private room and left without making an offer. During the interview, Harlan and Fleck’s wife, Heather, waited in an adjacent room.
On Thursday, contract talks began. Negotiation went back and forth on a few issues but went smoothly. Fleck’s deal, which is worth nearly $18.5 million over five years, is nearly identical to that of new Purdue coach Jeff Brohm, except that Brohm got an extra year.
If Fleck were to leave before the end of the contract, he would have to pay the University an amount equal to the guaranteed base salary ($1 million) for each of the remaining years on the contract and would have to notify and receive consent from the athletics director.
Fleck’s contract is expected to include a myriad of incentives that, if fully achieved, could make it worth more than $4 million annually.
Fleck can thank dramatically increased revenues from the Big Ten Network for his eye-opening deals. The Gophers’ share of conference media revenue should exceed $40 million this year.
Fleck’s incentives include bonuses for achieving academic and athletic goals. He’ll receive moving expenses, an automobile and the right to operate summer football camps.
Harlan, incidentally, is the brother of noted NFL and NBA broadcaster Kevin Harlan, who wrote the book on play-by-play announcing and whose father is former Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame CEO Bob Harlan.
Bryan Harlan also represents Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald, as well as Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
Insiders say two major University of Minnesota donors demanded to administrators that Tracy Claeys be fired as football coach.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/01/0...d-coyle-landed-p-j-fleck-without-search-firm/
Go Gophers!!
