I am glad we gave you a chuckle. Minny has pretty much had their own dark ages like NU. Kill was a good coach but he was still a 500 coach. Kill worked his way up and was was viewed from the outside as a honorable hard working guy. Mason got you turned around, but he fattened up on a very weak OCC and blew plenty of opportunities to really get you on the right track. Brewster made me chuckle. You coveniently brought up the 1-3 record the last fours years and omitted NU's 5-1 record the previous 6 years.
Personally, I like the twin cities, the stadium is great, and the vast majority of fans are great. I am glad you dumped Claeys because his lack of understanding on how to act and react to a difficult outside of the lines situation was an extremely poor look for your school. I am glad your AD and most of your fan base understood this. It is the ONLY thing IMO that Minny Admistration got right in terrible situation.
So if your definition of superior program relates exclusively to wins and losses, I guess you can make a case that we are similar. I still think we are a notch above in the last 25 years. However, as a NU fan, I will claim superiority in other aspects of our football program. First and foremost is the graduation rate, and character of our players and coaches. We have problems like any other school, but there is no way in hell we would have a gang bang and then have our players and HC do a knee yerk boycott. Come back 2 days later, not a good look. Wasn't there an internal report on a pattern of sexual assault/harassment in 2015, a full year before the gang bang? How about that Phillip Nelson character? Not exactly a pillar of society. Did you not have a previous sexual assault case with some football players about 10 years ago. If I get into other Minny sports the look isn't much better. Wrestlers selling drugs, a former AD with sexual harassment charges. How about Reggie Lynch on your B Ball team getting arrested on a sexual assault allegation this year. Yes, guess I will claim superiority in character of the program.
This thread is about Fleck anyway. Most here seem to think he'll do well at Minny. I am not as sure. To me, he is an egomaniac that talks a lot about his culture, but will do whatever it takes to win even if it entails taking on shady characters that happen to be good in football. We'll probably see you back here if Minny wins next year's game, but if that happens and your school still hasn't cleaned up this ugly culture, I would rather be prouder of our program in defeat. Hope Fleck is all he thinks he is.