I think a lot of people here don't have any clue how this is going to play outside of sports media. Kaler and Coyle are going to be fine, at least in the short term. No one is getting fired from a major public university for being over zealous about sexual assault allegations. The federal law is firmly on their side. If this situation isn't resolved by Monday, the team with withdraw from the Holiday Bowl and the guys who want to sit out a year and transfer will be welcome to do so.
And considering the great job of recruiting the program does, I'm not sure how many players are going to be eager to transfer to MAC schools. Claeys is gone though, although they'll probably keep him on board for another year. This is not a fight the players are going to win. Right or wrong, this isn't a fight the players are going to win. Look at what happened with Yale, there was a huge backlash once the news media got wind of the player's protest.
The good news is that the next coach will probably have six years guaranteed because he will have to "rebuild the program from scratch" like Monson after the academic scandal. At this point I think it's even money at best whether the Gophers ever field another team with a team with a winning Big Ten record before major colleges start shutting down programs as the big CTE liability universities are exposing themselves to become apparent.
The Gophers should save everyone the money and grief and just shut it down now. Then at least we can have the moral high ground of being on of the first schools to respond to the CTE crisis that is on its way. Tie it into a landmark study from the Med School and maybe the school can actually come out of this mess looking pretty ok.
