re: Former Players, Staff Reveal Troubling Allegations of Toxic Culture Under P.J. Fleck

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You have to realize, in the left-wing media and American academia, the college football head coach is the embodiment of the exploitative white male power structure. On top of that, college football is massively popular among males in the South and Midwest - which tends to skew conservative. Anything that degrades or eliminates cultural and social activities favored by that group is to be supported. If, at the same time, you can humiliate and ruin these evil white male coaches; well, that's just a cherry on top. Look how 90% of the pro-NIL coverage was portrayed.

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Lot of truth here.

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“It was sickening because I wasn’t OK,” the first player said, “I wasn’t in a good mental spot. I was struggling. I was fighting every day just to get by or find hope. It’s not natural to say when someone asks how you’re doing to say, ‘I am elite.’ When I said, ‘I’m good,’ [Fleck] would respond, ‘Oh, you’re not elite?’ He would either get all frustrated and walk off, or I’d be told, ‘You’re supposed to say elite.’ Inside, I was not feeling anywhere near that.”

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Doesn’t sound like he was feeling “good” either but didn’t have any problem saying that.

I don't know if any of this is true or not, but I've never liked Fleck. Always thought he was phony with all his corny "Row the Boat" bs. He was the hot young name in coaching 8 or so years ago. There's a reason he went to Minnesota and not a bigger name, and that he's still there and hasn't moved on to a bigger program. Phony.

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gave out tokens or coins (similar to stickers for good behavior/test scores in elementary school).

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Didn’t realize Fleck was a Construction Manager.