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Can we stop with this PJ Fleck talk by Catdog2

If ND fired BK and hired freaking PJ Fleck that would be colossally stupid.

Fleck is the flavor of the month, similar to Tom Herman, or Rich Rod, or Todd Graham, or yes (even BK back in the day). Except Fleck is worse. At least BK actually went 12-0 at Cincinnati and made a BCS game, and did well there for multiple years.

PJ Fleck has done what exactly?

He's won 8 games at Minnesotta this year and beat an overranked Penn State team? Except that last year he went 7-6 and the year before 5-7. "But wait" you say: "he's improving a terrible program and taking it to unprecedented highs". Aha, not so fast... Minnesotta has actually been doing pretty much just as well through then end of the Jerry Kill and the brief Tracy Claeys era. Fleck has essentially done nothing to elevate the program above where it was the decade prior to his showing up.