Jerry doesn't like the way PJ handled things when he took over at Minn. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2019/0... /

I heard about that case, but never followed it. How did it turn out? Were they convicted?

Edit - I did some searches, and this was the latest I found:
https://kstp.com/news/9-football-players-suing-university... /

One of my Minnesota cousins wrote me about this article. He says it's just another indication that Fleck is a bad fit for Minnesota. He says that Fleck does not fit into the Minnesota culture and would be better as the coach of UNLV or Miami(Fl). He calls, fleck a "clown" and a "jackass." I suppose if he wins the B1G that it might modify my cousin's assessment, but he really doesn't like the guy and has told me this on numerous occasions.

While Kill is obviously upset about the situation, there are times to just move on. He couldn’t and didn’t. That’s his style I guess. Someone long ago told me about the old saying about not burning your bridges. It kind of makes him look like a sour grapes guy, but he has to live with it. No doubt some will support his actions as being passionate about what he believes in.

Funny, a place that employs a Pitino finds Fleck arrogant. Interesting

I had the opportunity to listen to and then meet Coach Fleck on two occasions. He really likes himself. That causes a level of likability but overall he’s an arrogant footballl coach no shocker. I asked him if he thought he would be speaking to such a large groups if Greg Windham doesn’t throw that pick in the MAC title game. He smiled and said of course I had the better team. I wished him luck rowing in Minnesota.

I think it's fair to say that Fleck is pretty self-absorbed and that his style isn't for everyone. And I think that Jerry Kill is entitled to think that way if that's his belief.

However, when you are the coach once removed and go on air to rant about the incumbent coach it's just going to come off as sour grapes. It's going to look even worse when your program wasn't exactly squeaky clean and you didn't have a spectacular record.

As weak as the Big 17 West or however many they have now is compared to the East, it would be a minor miracle for Fleck to get the Gophers to Indy for the conference championship game. Wisconsin will bounce back, Northwestern is always a threat as is Iowa.

Mid-tier bowls and 7-5 to 8-4 is pretty close to the ceiling there in football.

Funny, my 1988 Minnesota Media Guide claims the term Golden Gophers came from long time radio announcer Halsey Hall where he started referring to the team as the “Golden Gophers” due to the color of their uniforms. And they officially changed their name under Bierman later. But Hall coined the moniker due to uniforms. However, I do always enjoy your revisionist History. No wonder you vote the way you do 😎🤦🏼‍♂️

I watch Fox News OCF, for a fair and balanced report. I still disagree with your historical assessment that’s not based on documentation, but momma’s oral history.

Fox News is far closer to the concept of "balance" than CNN or MSNBC.

Am I in an alternative universe?  Have I entered the Twilight Zone?  It's not that I disagree, it's just that some folks here are not sticking to my stereotypes of them, and that makes me uncomfortable!   

The sad thing is that news services keep getting more politicized each year. According this from 2014:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/21... /
Extreme Right: Breitbart, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck
Extreme Left: New Yorker, Al Jareeza, NPR, Colbert, NY Times

Right: Fox
Left: BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, Washington Post, Economist, Politico

Slight Right: Wall Street Journal, Yahoo
Slight Left: MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, Google, ABC, Bloomberg, ABC, USA Today

Closest to the center would be Yahoo, WSJ, CBS, ABC, USA Today, and Bloomberg


I suspect that if a similar study was done today, those on the left have moved further left, and those on the right have moved further right, and the center is even more desolate. Worse, those on the left think their new is unbiased, and those on the right think their news is unbiased, and neither seem to realize the extent that bias and opinion have replaced actual news. I would also point out that in 2014, while the number of services on the extreme left and extreme right are about equal, the number of news services on the left, or slight left vastly outnumber those on the right and slight right. I suspect that's true today as well.

I also like NPR, and I agree that, unlike many, they do make a deliberate effort to include differing opinions. Still, the main thrust of the stories on NPR does remain liberal. I suspect that since 2014, NPR has moved to the right a bit, in a deliberate effort to reduce bias to the left. Meanwhile, MSNBC has obviously moved quite a ways further left, and Yahoo News has as well. I saw a study not long ago that showed that MSNBC was the network news service with the most opinion content (as opposed to news), but I wasn't able to find it.

The article I quoted above, does lend credence to the view that overall there is a liberal bias. There are vastly more news services to the left than to the right, and note that the article was from a left leaning publication, the Washington Post.

I would agree with you, though, that while TV is significantly to the left of center, radio is to the far right of center, though there are also some left leaning radio programs as well.

To stimulate further thought, here's another study:
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-biased-news-outlets-...
This shows that Republicans only believe that Fox and the WSJ are unbiased, while Democrats believe that most services are unbiased, with only Fox and the extreme right services like Breitbart biased. In this poll there was only one service that both Republicans and Democrats both believe is unbiased, and that was the WSJ. That, right there, tells you that we have a major problem.