P.J. Fleck Contract: Latest News, Rumors on Negotiations with Western Michigan

The Western Michigan Broncos football team just finished its first perfect season since joining the MAC, with head coach P.J. Fleck holding all of the leverage as he seeks a new contract. 

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WMU, Fleck in Negotiations

Thursday, Dec. 8

Per Tony Paul of the Detroit News, Western Michigan athletic director Kathy Beauregard said the school is still in negotiations with Fleck, using the term "elite" to describe the talks. 

Fleck seemed poised to be on the radar for one of the major head coaching jobs that came open, but virtually all of those positions have already been filled. Tom Herman went to Texas and Ed Orgeron had the interim tag taken off him by LSU. 

The Houston job is still open, though Dan Wolken of USA Today reported the program is poised to hire Lane Kiffin when school officials hold a meeting on Thursday night to determine which direction they want to go. 

In four years as the Broncos' head coach, Fleck has done a fantastic job of completely reinventing the program. They went 1-11 in his first season after taking over for Bill Cubit before posting back-to-back eight-win campaigns, highlighted by the school's first bowl win in the Bahamas Bowl last December. 

After the 2014 season, Fleck signed a six-year extension that made him the highest-paid coach in the Mid-American Conference with an average salary of $800,000. 

All of that set the stage for Western Michigan's 13-0 performance this season and the school's first conference title since 1988. The Broncos will close their season with a Cotton Bowl showdown against Wisconsin. 

Fleck has done everything in his power to make Western Michigan a known commodity on the national stage, with ESPN's College Gameday even setting one of its shows in Kalamazoo earlier this year. He has earned whatever extension the school will give him.