this season has been impressive, in his fourth season,
Career at UWM: 1-11, 8-5, 8-5, 12-0... 1-1 in bowl games.
Fleck as the HC and strong as DC would be my ideal hire.
I've posted this before = sorry for this redundancy.
Fleck was installed as WMU's HC a few weeks before NS-day and he immediately canceled all prior offered
Schollys. That's a tough, strict, gutsy HC-CEO guy. So the players he got must have been the dregs-recruits.
That's the team that went 1-11, but his next recruiting class was #1 in his conference -- the first ever #1 class
for WMU in the MAC. Since then, Fleck has had the #1 recruit class in the MAC for 3 straight years.
It is true that to jump on hiring now would be a big blindish gamble. However, how about Stricklin doing his
activated HC research for the years that Mac will probably hang on to us = watching Fleck (& other young
prospects) for offer in 2-3 years ? We need to avoid this "business as usual" MO of "pig in a poke" choosing.
Surely there can be some "Sabanistic-sneaky-way" to apprise a prospective employee of UF's interest in his
interest.?? ... Like send out an innocent survey list, excluding the name of the coach whose advice we're asking: "Please rate 1-10 the listed coaches you think would
be a good fit for HC at UF." {at the bottom, of course, have a blank line for a write-in candidate} :D