There was just a story last year of excessive injuries and I think Fleck and the AD wouldn't address it.
I'm not saying he isn't better than his predecessors at Minny or even a bad coach, I'm saying that he isn't my cup of tea.
I also think it's tough to compare B1G records vs other B1G records by another coach. I'm sure Kill played the tougher teams more but he also had 8 conference games for a while. The B1G's additions have just made the scheduling so weird.
Kill was super overrated, at least by people on CF. I know prior to the last couple years when the bottom fell out on Rhoads, most of us were ready to move on from Rhoads already. And at that time Rhoads had a better record than Kill vs. ranked teams, and their records vs. unranked teams were almost the same, Kill having a slight advantage. The difference at that time between Kill (who people thought was great) and Rhoads (who many of us already thought it was time to move on) was one playing a lot more ranked teams. Now, the bottom did fall out on Rhoads, so Kill certainly was better, but as much as I like Rhoads, his post-ISU career suggests that isn't a super-high bar to judge a P5 head coach.
We can talk about how Minnesota isn't a great job, but in the end it's a power conference school in a major metro and fairly populated state with no other D1 or even FCS schools. Fleck's record is also pumped up by soft scheduling and a crap division.
Fleck is so transparently phony, but so are a lot of college coaches. You can be an obvious snake oil salesman, and still be successful as a college coach. I know someone that came to Fleck's staff from another D1 program when Fleck took the Minnesota job. Initially he really regretted the decision and couldn't stand Fleck. He said it took awhile, but Fleck grew on him. He's still very much a strange guy and can be a self-centered Dbag. But this guy said Fleck also has times where he's a genuine, generous guy. It almost sounds like he's a bit manic.
