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But how did this game come about?
Former Gophers Athletics Director Norwood Teague is to thank for this matchup — although neither he nor anyone could have foreseen the twists and turns to set up this awkward moment more than a decade later. The disgraced AD entered into the contract in 2009 with then-New Mexico State AD McKinley Boston, who held the same role at Minnesota from 1991-95.
The deal, according to a data records request from the U athletics department, was amended in 2012 when Kill was in his second season at Minnesota and again in 2015 when he was in his final year at the U.
The two-games series originally was set for Aug. 30, 2018 and Sept. 3, 2020, with NMSU to receive $800,000 after the first game, which went off without a hitch, and then a $250,000 payday after the second.
In 2017, P.J. Fleck’s first season at the U, newer Gophers AD Mark Coyle and NMSU AD Mario Moccia moved the date of the second game in the series from 2020 to Thursday. Kill was hired by New Mexico State last November...
Two other pre-existing contracts with Power Five conference schools won’t do Kill’s team any favors later this season. The Aggies play at Wisconsin on Sept. 17 and at Missouri on Nov. 19. …
Former Gophers Athletics Director Norwood Teague is to thank for this matchup — although neither he nor anyone could have foreseen the twists and turns to set up this awkward moment more than a decade later. The disgraced AD entered into the contract in 2009 with then-New Mexico State AD McKinley Boston, who held the same role at Minnesota from 1991-95.
The deal, according to a data records request from the U athletics department, was amended in 2012 when Kill was in his second season at Minnesota and again in 2015 when he was in his final year at the U.
The two-games series originally was set for Aug. 30, 2018 and Sept. 3, 2020, with NMSU to receive $800,000 after the first game, which went off without a hitch, and then a $250,000 payday after the second.
In 2017, P.J. Fleck’s first season at the U, newer Gophers AD Mark Coyle and NMSU AD Mario Moccia moved the date of the second game in the series from 2020 to Thursday. Kill was hired by New Mexico State last November...
Two other pre-existing contracts with Power Five conference schools won’t do Kill’s team any favors later this season. The Aggies play at Wisconsin on Sept. 17 and at Missouri on Nov. 19. …
Gophers football: How the odd, awkward matchup of Jerry Kill vs. P.J. Fleck came to be
Grab you popcorn, those pre- and postgame interactions at Huntington Bank Stadium might hold drama, even if it’s don’t-blink brief.
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