UNDATED (WKZO-AM/FM) — Minnesota Head Football Coach P.J. Fleck says Western Michigan University was willing to pay up to keep him in Kalamazoo.
The former Broncos head coach told Jim Rome this week he “took a major pay cut” to take the job at the Big Ten school, but also said it wasn’t about the money. He said it was about the dream to coach at a program like Minnesota.
The contract Western offered Fleck was never disclosed, but it was suspected Fleck would have been the highest-paid coach in the Mid-American Conference had he stayed.
Fleck signed a five-year, $18.5 million deal with the Gophers after piloting the Broncos to an undefeated regular season and Cotton Bowl berth.
