“What I am here to do is change a culture.”
Those were the exact words that P.J. Fleck used in his introductory press conference back in January when he was first hired by athletic director Mark Coyle to replace Tracy Claeys as the head football coach at the University of Minnesota.
But what does that mean exactly? For members of the previous coaching regime, it was taken as an indictment of the culture established under former head coach Jerry Kill. Naturally, a few of them — even Kill himself — did not take the perceived slight lying down.