A Minnesota football moving van actually came to get Mark Coyle's stuff in NY

[BleedGopher]

per Syracuse.com:

Parked on the street outside Coyle's house and taking up half the street at the end of a Dewitt cul-de-sac was an enormous Minnesota football equipment truck, presumably to cart the family's belongings from Syracuse to Minnesota.

There was no answer when a reporter rang the doorbell at the home and there were no movers visible.

Minnesota's Paul Rovnak, the school's director of communications for the football program, said in a statement that the school doesn't own the truck and the decision to use that specific design to move Coyle was made without the knowledge of Coyle or the athletic department.

"A University of Minnesota football equipment truck has occasionally been used to move new employees to Minnesota," Rovnak said. "In this situation, a different truck should have been used by the transportation company who owns the vehicle. Mark Coyle and members of the Minnesota athletic department were not aware that this truck was being used."

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Go Gophers!!

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

So they have a van that has the university logo and stuff all over it but they don't really decide how it gets used?

I guess buying a whole truck would be a bit expensive but say if Coyle goes an gets a job at Iowa would we like it if he used that truck to go move down there?

it seems like you'd have some say on how a truck with your logo and such on it would be used.

 

[GophersInIowa]

So they have a van that has the university logo and stuff all over it but they don't really decide how it gets used?

I guess buying a whole truck would be a bit expensive but say if Coyle goes an gets a job at Iowa would we like it if he used that truck to go move down there?

it seems like you'd have some say on how a truck with your logo and such on it would be used.

My guess is they do, they just didn't think to tell them not to use the truck. Probably found out about it the same time most everyone else did.

 

[DLguy]

The truck is actually owned by a booster. I forget his name, but he volunteers his time and his semi to transport the Gopher football equipment for all games. This is not owned by the U

 

[Unregistered User]

Did he fill the tank?

 

[Spoofin]

This is major news. Channel 4 should be all over it. They spent a good 5 minutes covering Aaron Rodgers giving up cheese and this is only slightly less important.


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[bemidjigopher]

So they have a van that has the university logo and stuff all over it but they don't really decide how it gets used?

I guess buying a whole truck would be a bit expensive but say if Coyle goes an gets a job at Iowa would we like it if he used that truck to go move down there?

it seems like you'd have some say on how a truck with your logo and such on it would be used.

But will they be mad about the cost of moving the family dog?

 

[Breakin' The Plane]

Did he fill the tank?

Tanks. There's two.

 

[Killjoy]

Tanks. There's two.

There wouldn't be all this discussion if somebody had just said "No tanks!" and moved on.

 

[West Fargo Gopher Fan]

Not quite Mayflower moving vans packing up the Baltimore Colts in the middle of the night but still interesting.

 

[West Fargo Gopher Fan]

Did he fill the tank?

hahaha. I missed this the first time reading the thread. Well played.

 

[Breakin' The Plane]

The truck is actually owned by a booster. I forget his name, but he volunteers his time and his semi to transport the Gopher football equipment for all games. This is not owned by the U

Gaard just verified this, kind of. He said that it's certainly not the U's tractor/trailer. The way he put it is that the U contracts with the company that owns the truck. When it's not hauling Gopher football equipment, it doesn't just sit idle. He mentioned some hubbub because the Twins used it to take a bunch of stuff down to Ft. Myers at one point.

 

[saintpauljeff]

I read the Twitter comments, some of the folks are pissy

 

[MNGoldenGophers1]

Talk about rubbing salt in an open wound.

 

[MaxyJR1]

At least one booster is supporting the U and has a sense of humor through all this.


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[hungan1]

Syracuse fans, why don't you just let it go and move on.