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Minnesota Golden Gophers (official thread)

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ORD_Buckeye said:
If college foosball players aren't free to gang rape, you might as well just turn this country over to the commies, cause FREEDOM'S done been killed off by the pointy headed professors in their ivory tower.
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If gang-raping drunk co-eds and filming it then getting suspended and then threatening to boycott participation in a bowl game is wrong...
 
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OhioState001 said:
If you guys don't think this stuff happens every year at almost every football program other than BYU I got bad news for you...
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Oh? This happens other places? I didn't know. Totally fine with me then ... said no one ever (except apparently you).

OhioState001 said:
Let's face it you don't like the fact that a bunch of black football players used a woman for sex
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Yes, because when people don't agree with your point of view ... RACISM! WTF is wrong with you?
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Tracy Claeys told Minnesota players he’d be fired if boycott continued

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Minnesota players have ended their boycott and will indeed play in the Dec. 27 Holiday Bowl. Turns out reading an 80-page report describing in painstaking detail of an alleged sexual assault committed by your teammates tends to soften feelings of revolution.

But another factor contributing to the stakeout: Tracy Claeys‘s job.

The Minnesota head coach told WCCO radio he informed his players there was “a great chance I could lose my job over this.”

“That was the commitment on my part. I knew that was a possibility in happening,” Claeys told the station, via the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “That’s why that meeting took a long time, to go through the fallouts.”

Even still, Claeys insisted he was okay risking his $1.4 million a year job to show solidarity with his players. (Claeys told WCCO he will donate $50,000 of his own money to support victims of sexual assault.)

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...es-son-hired-as-nevada-offensive-coordinator/
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Sounds like the Minny President and Trustees have some sack.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Sounds like the Minny President and Trustees have some sack.
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...and with the coach siding with these players, he fits right into Minnesota's "Corky Taylor" tradition of low-life ethics. It's actually disgusting. The President should have made it very clear to the team and fanbase that a team that doesn't want to play--won't play.
 
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Steve19 said:
...and with the coach siding with these players, he fits right into Minnesota's "Corky Taylor" tradition of low-life ethics. It's actually disgusting. The President should have made it very clear to the team and fanbase that a team that doesn't want to play--won't play.
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I'm willing to cut him some slack. If he takes a hard line after the coach and players agree to play the game, then it opens himself up to accusations of being the intransigent one and the bad guy. He's made his point and laid down some institutional control over the coach and his players, and I'm guessing that coach is probably gone, in one way or another, after next year.
 
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Source: Tracy Claeys fired as Gophers coach

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Minnesota fired football coach Tracy Claeys on Tuesday after meetings with school officials, a source told ESPN, confirming a report by WCCO-TV in Minneapolis.

Claeys and athletic director Mark Coyle met Tuesday after returning from travel.

Claeys met only with Coyle on Tuesday, but Coyle had the full support of the board of trustees and university president Eric Kaler, a school source said.

Entire article: http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...rs-fire-tracy-claeys-response-players-boycott
 
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NFBuck said:
Odd timing...He just led them to a 9-4 season and looks like the way the school made it worse with how they handled it.
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Was hired by the interim AD and the current AD had been looking to replace him. Claeys backing of the players during the near boycott of the holiday bowl was just the out the AD was looking for. Claeys did this to himself
 
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