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Jim Carter met with more than a dozen Gophers football alumni Thursday for their annual celebration of legendary University of Minnesota coach Murray Warmath’s birthday later this month.
But the conversation shifted from Warmath to the Minnesota football team’s announced boycott over 10 suspended teammates after fallout from a sexual assault allegation in September.
“I’m so proud of all of them,” said Carter, a former Gophers captain who later played for the Packers. “The alumni there supported the statement these kids made. I think it took a lot of courage. I texted a lot of those kids. I think they did the right thing. I would’ve stood with them.”
From several Gophers alumni to boosters, the reaction Friday was of overwhelming support for the players in the aftermath of the football team’s boycott Thursday night.
Former Gophers All-America and two-time Super Bowl champion Tyrone Carter immediately backed the suspended players on social media after they tweeted early Thursday hashtags of #WeHadEnough.
“We’re looking at the process of how [Gophers athletic director Mark Coyle and University President Eric Kaler] handled the case,” Carter said. “How they issued out the suspensions while [coach Tracy Claeys] was not here. They had some times where they couldn’t defend themselves. Every student has a due process order they have to go through. Don’t look at athletes, seeing that the bowl game is right here, so you can do that to those kids. That’s the thing that bothered me the most.”
Carter said if the players commited an assault “they should be punished, but let them go through the due process.”
http://www.startribune.com/support-for-players-boycott-strong-among-alums-donors/407164606/
Go Gophers!!
Jim Carter met with more than a dozen Gophers football alumni Thursday for their annual celebration of legendary University of Minnesota coach Murray Warmath’s birthday later this month.
But the conversation shifted from Warmath to the Minnesota football team’s announced boycott over 10 suspended teammates after fallout from a sexual assault allegation in September.
“I’m so proud of all of them,” said Carter, a former Gophers captain who later played for the Packers. “The alumni there supported the statement these kids made. I think it took a lot of courage. I texted a lot of those kids. I think they did the right thing. I would’ve stood with them.”
From several Gophers alumni to boosters, the reaction Friday was of overwhelming support for the players in the aftermath of the football team’s boycott Thursday night.
Former Gophers All-America and two-time Super Bowl champion Tyrone Carter immediately backed the suspended players on social media after they tweeted early Thursday hashtags of #WeHadEnough.
“We’re looking at the process of how [Gophers athletic director Mark Coyle and University President Eric Kaler] handled the case,” Carter said. “How they issued out the suspensions while [coach Tracy Claeys] was not here. They had some times where they couldn’t defend themselves. Every student has a due process order they have to go through. Don’t look at athletes, seeing that the bowl game is right here, so you can do that to those kids. That’s the thing that bothered me the most.”
Carter said if the players commited an assault “they should be punished, but let them go through the due process.”
http://www.startribune.com/support-for-players-boycott-strong-among-alums-donors/407164606/
Go Gophers!!