BleedGopher
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per Hallman:
The Gopher athletic culture, especially football, is cesspool-like. It’s the same culture that last year allowed wrestlers to buy and sell drugs on campus, and the coach’s way of disciplining them was to assign them term papers to write.
It’s the same culture that forced a Black female to leave the track team because she felt her claims of harassment and insensitivity by male athletes and a trainer were not taken seriously.
It’s the same culture where a high school recruit used his on-campus recruiting visit like a Vegas weekend, and his football player hosts treated him to an underage sexual healing experience. It’s the same culture that added a young female to the legions of those who have been sexually abused and permanently scarred because some young men don’t know what “no” means.
“Rape culture is not OK on college campuses,” said U of M student James Farnsworth.
Since 1991, when I added U of M football to my college sports beat, I have covered seven coaches — John Gutekunst, Jim Wacker, Glen Mason, Tim Brewster, Jeff Horton, Jerry Kill and Claeys. All but Horton and Claeys I pretty much got along with. But this columnist sees Gopher football on the field as a second-class program.
They haven’t won a Big Ten title since 1967. They haven’t been national champs since 1960. They haven’t won 10 games since 2003, and that was the first time Minnesota achieved double-digit wins since 1905. They ballyhoo made-for-cable bowl games and victories as if they were classic epics.
They can’t beat such Big Ten powers as Michigan (.262 winning percentage), Ohio State (.137) and Michigan State (.370). They can’t attract “A” players from such prep football hotbeds as Texas and Florida in order to compete with these powers.
It’s not big-time football but rather a starter program, like training wheels for a coach to cut his head coaching teeth on before going off to better places. Fleck formerly coached at Western Michigan, a mid-major in a mid-major Mid-American Conference. And Coyle now will pay Claeys a half-million dollars and $4.5 million to his assistants — that’s $5 million in unemployment coaches’ benefits.
http://msrnews.online/2017/01/10/urgently-needed-gopher-culture-purge/
Go Gophers!!
The Gopher athletic culture, especially football, is cesspool-like. It’s the same culture that last year allowed wrestlers to buy and sell drugs on campus, and the coach’s way of disciplining them was to assign them term papers to write.
It’s the same culture that forced a Black female to leave the track team because she felt her claims of harassment and insensitivity by male athletes and a trainer were not taken seriously.
It’s the same culture where a high school recruit used his on-campus recruiting visit like a Vegas weekend, and his football player hosts treated him to an underage sexual healing experience. It’s the same culture that added a young female to the legions of those who have been sexually abused and permanently scarred because some young men don’t know what “no” means.
“Rape culture is not OK on college campuses,” said U of M student James Farnsworth.
Since 1991, when I added U of M football to my college sports beat, I have covered seven coaches — John Gutekunst, Jim Wacker, Glen Mason, Tim Brewster, Jeff Horton, Jerry Kill and Claeys. All but Horton and Claeys I pretty much got along with. But this columnist sees Gopher football on the field as a second-class program.
They haven’t won a Big Ten title since 1967. They haven’t been national champs since 1960. They haven’t won 10 games since 2003, and that was the first time Minnesota achieved double-digit wins since 1905. They ballyhoo made-for-cable bowl games and victories as if they were classic epics.
They can’t beat such Big Ten powers as Michigan (.262 winning percentage), Ohio State (.137) and Michigan State (.370). They can’t attract “A” players from such prep football hotbeds as Texas and Florida in order to compete with these powers.
It’s not big-time football but rather a starter program, like training wheels for a coach to cut his head coaching teeth on before going off to better places. Fleck formerly coached at Western Michigan, a mid-major in a mid-major Mid-American Conference. And Coyle now will pay Claeys a half-million dollars and $4.5 million to his assistants — that’s $5 million in unemployment coaches’ benefits.
http://msrnews.online/2017/01/10/urgently-needed-gopher-culture-purge/
Go Gophers!!
