Report: Western Michigan hiring Tim Lester as new head coach

Western Michigan reportedly has found a new coach to replace P.J. Fleck.

Football Scoop reported on Friday that Western Michigan is hiring Tim Lester as its new head coach.

Sources tell FootballScoop Western Michigan is hiring Tim Lester as their new head coach https://t.co/sNnVtyuq1F

— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) January 13, 2017

Lester was a record-setting quarterback at Western Michigan and is a member of the school’s hall of fame.

Lester was most recently the quarterbacks coach at Purdue. Before that he was an assistant at Syracuse from 2013-2015. He has limited head coaching experience, although he went 33-19 in five seasons at D-III Elmhurst.

Lester, 39, will have to fill out his staff as many of Fleck’s coaches left with the former Broncos coach for his new job at Minnesota.