Kill: coach Fleck ‘about himself’

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota coach Jerry Kill says he won’t speak again to P.J. Fleck, saying the current Golden Gophers coach is too selfish.

Kill spoke to Sirius XM radio Tuesday and said he thinks Fleck is “about himself” instead of the players. Kill said he’s been particularly offended by Fleck’s public decrees to change the culture of the program. Kill said he called Fleck shortly after he was hired two years ago, a conversation that “wasn’t good.” Kill said that would be his last talk with Fleck, who was on his staff at Northern Illinois from 2007-08.

Kill said he thinks Fleck has changed since then and that “sometimes ego gets carried away.”

When Fleck took over the Gophers , he called himself a “Kill guy” and praised Kill for teaching him how to better care for his players.

Fleck, through a team spokesman, declined to comment Wednesday.

MICHIGAN: Coach Jim Jim Harbaugh is taking his football team to South Africa in May after the semester. Like last year’s visit to France , the Wolverines will not practice in South Africa. Harbaugh did have practices in Italy in 2017.

Michigan alumni Bobby Kotick and Don Graham funded last year’s trip, and Kotick paid for the visit to Italy. Harbaugh has said Kotick will pay for the tours as long as the coach wants to do them. Harbaugh has mentioned Greece, Spain and Cuba as possible destinations for the annual opportunities for his players to learn and bond.