Gopher Football’s New Head Coach Looks To Move Forward From Last Year’s Boycott

[BleedGopher]

per The Wake:

With a surprising winning record, catchy new slogan, and the youngest Big Ten football coach in history known for his inspiring pregame speeches, it’s tough not to be a Gopher football fan today.

But with all of the hype surrounding the new head coach, P.J. Fleck, it seems that Gopher fans have forgotten why there was a need for a new coach in the first place.

On January 3, 2017, the University of Minnesota fired former football head coach Tracy Claeys due to his support of his entire team’s two-day boycott of all football activities. This boycott was a response to ten players being suspended on charges of sexual assault that occurred on September 2, 2016 involving a female student. Since then, the sexual assault charges have been dropped, with five players having their suspensions overturned, four being expelled, and one receiving a one-year suspension.

With all eyes on the new coach, he’s doing exactly what a person in his position should do; he’s putting his foot down.

Fleck responded to last year’s incident by telling his players that if anyone is ever involved in a similar incident, “there [will be] no place for you in this program.” He has instituted a type of “zero tolerance” policy which is popular among the NCAA, but doesn’t seem to be decreasing sexual assaults among their players at the rates they hoped for.

http://www.wakemag.org/sections/voices/new-coach-new-rules-new-team

Go Gophers!!

 

[West Fargo Gopher Fan]

per The Wake:

With a surprising winning record, catchy new slogan, and the youngest Big Ten football coach in history known for his inspiring pregame speeches, it’s tough not to be a Gopher football fan today.

But with all of the hype surrounding the new head coach, P.J. Fleck, it seems that Gopher fans have forgotten why there was a need for a new coach in the first place.

On January 3, 2017, the University of Minnesota fired former football head coach Tracy Claeys due to his support of his entire team’s two-day boycott of all football activities. This boycott was a response to ten players being suspended on charges of sexual assault that occurred on September 2, 2016 involving a female student. Since then, the sexual assault charges have been dropped, with five players having their suspensions overturned, four being expelled, and one receiving a one-year suspension.

With all eyes on the new coach, he’s doing exactly what a person in his position should do; he’s putting his foot down.

Fleck responded to last year’s incident by telling his players that if anyone is ever involved in a similar incident, “there [will be] no place for you in this program.” He has instituted a type of “zero tolerance” policy which is popular among the NCAA, but doesn’t seem to be decreasing sexual assaults among their players at the rates they hoped for.

http://www.wakemag.org/sections/voices/new-coach-new-rules-new-team

Go Gophers!!

Oddly constructed sentence. I'm assuming the writer means "doesn’t seem to be decreasing sexual assaults among their players NCAA wide" not "...within gophers football".

 

[gopherveteran]

Coyle and Kaler will kick you off if you not involved or there. If it helps fire an existing coach, they will kick you off and put your name in the paper.