Western’s Wild Week
The week of January 2nd, 2017 was supposed to be the best week of WMU football’s greatest era.
On Monday, the Broncos were undefeated, with an entire coaching staff still intact. They were riding a wave of momentum into the immediate future with yet another top-ranked recruiting class. They had survived the coaching carousel. The Fleck era was still in full swing. The Cotton Bowl was all anyone could think about. Come Friday morning, none of this was true.
Fleck was hired as the next head coach at the University of Minnesota on January 6th, just four days after his team’s solid showing against Wisconsin at AT&T stadium, and just four days after stating he was going back to Kalamazoo.