Western Michigan brass skipped this week's big college football convention in Nashville, preferring to ramp up its search for a new coach from its Kalamazoo campus.
Athletic director Kathy Beauregard and president John Dunn are not using a search firm to find a replacement for P.J. Fleck, who left for Minnesota last Friday. But that’s not to say they haven't made significant progress on a wide-ranging hunt.
A decision could be made this weekend, with an announcement as early as Monday.
One name that is on the radar, if not the front runner, is Tim Lester, a former Western Michigan quarterback who was in the mix four years ago, even if Fleck was the only one offered the job.