Posted on 11/16/2016 1:31:09 PM PST by shove_it
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — When Western Michigan hired P. J. Fleck before the 2013 season, he was, at 32, the youngest head coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision. With indomitable energy, offensive smarts — he had been a receivers coach in the N.F.L. — and a penchant for quirky motivational mantras like “Row The Boat,” he has turned the Broncos from a 1-11 doormat in his first year to a 9-0 team that is No. 17 in this week’s Associated Press poll. Fleck’s success, as intense as his personality, is great news for Western Michigan. It is also, in a sense, bad news. No matter how the university finishes its regular-season schedule, starting Tuesday night at Kent State (3-6), it almost certainly will not get the chance to play for the national title. It will absolutely continue to be forced to subsidize its athletic program to the tune of several million dollars a year. And there is a good chance that in the next year or two, it will lose Fleck...
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The Broncos are Top 20 in men’s hockey as well.
WMU didn’t have a hockey team ‘57-58 when I was there.
My alma mater and I’m ecstatic!
They need to go the Boise State path and let ESPN and Nike finance their team. They would have to play at weird times to fill out the TV schedule, but they would have nice uniforms and good funding.
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