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With all that has happened in the past week or so, the light at the end of the tunnel is farther away than it's ever been. Claeys and the staff are likely gone. Players will transfer. No coach will want to come coach where the stadium will be empty, the cupboard will be bare, and a university shrouded in turmoil on a national stage. We'll have to build from the ground up, again. It's gonna get a lot darker before it's gonna get brighter.
 

Don't want to make light of the situation - but if there are mass transfers, suspensions, or expulsions - the Gophers could wind up with a bleep-load of Jucos and walk-ons making up the roster.

Who stays - who goes - who coaches?

Remember when the worst thing we had to worry about was Mitch Leidner throwing the ball to the wrong team?
 

If we never fired Mason none of this would've happened.
 


Yeah, it will be just like what happened to PSU...oh wait we aren't going to get hit with a bunch of sanctions? oh wait, PSU just won Big10?
 


I wrote about this a week or so ago. The perspective is now totally different insofar as we now know that, at best, almost 10 % of our football team behaved in a disgusting ang repugnant way. It may not have reached felonious standards, but it brought shame and humiliation on the team and the University of Minnesota.

The best, most employable coaches willl gone. The best players will be gone. The stadium will be empty. The Athletic Department is facing a fiscal disaster. Construction will likely stop on the new facilities.

This isn't Penn State. As a result of this, Minnesota will demand action and this action might very well not be well reasoned out with regard to the long term well being of our Athletic Department. If, for example, construction were stopped on the new facilities, Coach Patino could cash out. It is not, in my mind, impossible to imagine the University of Minnesota not a participant in Big Ten Athletics.
 

ncgo4 said:
I wrote about this a week or so ago. The perspective is now totally different insofar as we now know that, at best, almost 10 % of our football team behaved in a disgusting ang repugnant way. It may not have reached felonious standards, but it brought shame and humiliation on the team and the University of Minnesota.

The best, most employable coaches willl gone. The best players will be gone. The stadium will be empty. The Athletic Department is facing a fiscal disaster. Construction will likely stop on the new facilities.

This isn't Penn State. As a result of this, Minnesota will demand action and this action might very well not be well reasoned out with regard to the long term well being of our Athletic Department. If, for example, construction were stopped on the new facilities, Coach Patino could cash out. It is not, in my mind, impossible to imagine the University of Minnesota not a participant in Big Ten Athletics.
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None of that is happening, but cool story bro.
 


You guys thing coy didn't know these details prior to showings his support of Coach C two weeks ago, and you think a tweet is gonna change that?
 



ncgo4 said:
I wrote about this a week or so ago. The perspective is now totally different insofar as we now know that, at best, almost 10 % of our football team behaved in a disgusting ang repugnant way. It may not have reached felonious standards, but it brought shame and humiliation on the team and the University of Minnesota.

The best, most employable coaches willl gone. The best players will be gone. The stadium will be empty. The Athletic Department is facing a fiscal disaster. Construction will likely stop on the new facilities.

This isn't Penn State. As a result of this, Minnesota will demand action and this action might very well not be well reasoned out with regard to the long term well being of our Athletic Department. If, for example, construction were stopped on the new facilities, Coach Patino could cash out. It is not, in my mind, impossible to imagine the University of Minnesota not a participant in Big Ten Athletics.
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It's pretty hard to imagine. Look at Baylor. They survived a much bigger scandal too, and they aren't PSU either. When has this ever been done?
 

To continue, this calls for pre-emotive action on the part of the A D, to instigate strong action before this goes to some kind of committee. Claeys should be removed. I know He was not causatively involved but responsibility rests where it is. A new head coach should be identified and hired immediately. The players should be given a one time opportunity to be released from their obligation to the U of M.

This needs to be controlled immediately. If this goes beyond the next day or two, kiss our University of Minnesota athletics good bye. Without Football there is no money for D1 sports.
 

ncgo4 said:
To continue, this calls for pre-emotive action on the part of the A D, to instigate strong action before this goes to some kind of committee. Claeys should be removed. I know He was not causatively involved but responsibility rests where it is. A new head coach should be identified and hired immediately. The players should be given a one time opportunity to be released from their obligation to the U of M.

This needs to be controlled immediately. If this goes beyond the next day or two, kiss our University of Minnesota athletics good bye. Without Football there is no money for D1 sports.
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what number drink are you on tonight?
 

I appreciate your comments but Baylor isn't in Minnesota, with our very conservative Scandinavian outlook in these things. Minnesota nice, after all. And with a blood seeking press corp. unfortunately, in Minnesota, we keep sports in its proper perspective.
 






ncgo4 said:
I appreciate your comments but Baylor isn't in Minnesota, with our very conservative Scandinavian outlook in these things. Minnesota nice, after all. And with a blood seeking press corp. unfortunately, in Minnesota, we keep sports in its proper perspective.
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You are insane if you think the university will suspend football for any amount of time. I don't think you understand how often these types of events occur in programs all over the country and none of them shut down.
 

Maximus said:
None of that is happening, but cool story bro.
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Actually this isn't that far from potentially what happens. What first rate D1 coach would want to be part of an institution where the President and AD lap at the bowl of the EOAA? Where this committee can, without notice declare a student athlete suspended because of heresay- she said, he said---- NO POLICE action, just someone recalling in a drunken stupor what might have happened. Sorry, No coach would want this impossible challenge.
 

Coaches will be fired, players will leave, and you'll stink for a couple years. But the next coach will have a lot of playing time to sell to recruits, and things will come back.
 

Jack jones said:
Actually this isn't that far from potentially what happens. What first rate D1 coach would want to be part of an institution where the President and AD lap at the bowl of the EOAA? Where this committee can, without notice declare a student athlete suspended because of heresay- she said, he said---- NO POLICE action, just someone recalling in a drunken stupor what might have happened. Sorry, No coach would want this impossible challenge.
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Seriously? Plenty of coaches would jump at the opportunity to coach at Big Ten school and earn a seven figure salary.
 

Jack jones said:
Actually this isn't that far from potentially what happens. What first rate D1 coach would want to be part of an institution where the President and AD lap at the bowl of the EOAA? Where this committee can, without notice declare a student athlete suspended because of heresay- she said, he said---- NO POLICE action, just someone recalling in a drunken stupor what might have happened. Sorry, No coach would want this impossible challenge.
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Penn State found a coach...two actually (child sex abuse). Baylor found a coach (sexual assault). USC found a coach (improper benefits). Miami found a coach (improper benefits). Vanderbilt found a coach (rape conviction). North Carolina found a coach (academic scandal). SMU found a coach (death penalty). Texas Tech found a coach (player treatment). Indiana found a coach (player treatment). Colorado found a coach (rape scandal).

But other than that, good point.
 

Maximus said:
Penn State found a coach...two actually (child sex abuse). Baylor found a coach (sexual assault). USC found a coach (improper benefits). Miami found a coach (improper benefits). Vanderbilt found a coach (rape conviction). North Carolina found a coach (academic scandal). SMU found a coach (death penalty). Texas Tech found a coach (player treatment). Indiana found a coach (player treatment). Colorado found a coach (rape scandal).

But other than that, good point.
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Exactly, some people just don't understand how major college athletics operate.
 

I don't think everyone here understands just how different the situation at Minnesota is from nearly everywhere else. Minnesota is a very politically correct place. Because of this, the EEOC is in control. It wouldn't exist in this form at most schools and it wouldn't be independently in charge hardly anywhere. But then, at Minnesota, the head coach of the football team isn't in charge either, so I guess it balances.
 

Good luck recruiting players, who would come to be subject to state of affairs that would result in full team boycott.
I don't know if they will have to kick anyone off, the good players with other options will leave, I would.
 

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