Mark Coyle, like so many of his peers, reaps rewards of athletes' labors

[BleedGopher]

per Syracuse.com:

There's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube. The idea of college sports being an extracurricular activity wherein the fellas can blow off some steam in the gym or on a back field before returning, invigorated, to the classroom rests with spats.

Nevertheless, what we witnessed on Wednesday, another example of evolution gone bad, was little more than an indictment.

That Mark Coyle will be paid roughly a million dollars a year in salary, incentives, goods and services to oversee the sandbox that is the University of Minnesota's athletic department isn't the issue, really. He is, after all, a good capitalist with a nose made to sniff out profit.

And, oh, by abandoning Syracuse University and beating that path to those Golden Gophers, Coyle went from wealthy to wealthier with the stroke of a pen. We've fought wars to ensure the kind of day the Orange's drive-by athletic director enjoyed out there in Minneapolis, so bully for him and for his family that has been secured for generations.

http://www.syracuse.com/poliquin/in...reaps_the_rewards_of_the_athletes_labors.html

Go Gophers!!

 

[Ignatius L Hoops]

To me, this is the most interesting assertion:

Mark pretty much admitted to having begun his romancing of the Gophers within weeks of arriving in Syracuse from Boise State. After landing among us and boasting of his transparency and his insistence to "live in truth," he engaged for months in a secretive mating dance with his Minnesota suitors. Upon accepting a third job in a third time zone in a span of 300ish days, he promised to bring stability and accountability and consistency to his newest employer.

 

[GophersInIowa]

To me, this is the most interesting assertion:

Mark pretty much admitted to having begun his romancing of the Gophers within weeks of arriving in Syracuse from Boise State. After landing among us and boasting of his transparency and his insistence to "live in truth," he engaged for months in a secretive mating dance with his Minnesota suitors. Upon accepting a third job in a third time zone in a span of 300ish days, he promised to bring stability and accountability and consistency to his newest employer.

This is the first I have seen anything about this.

They are, relatively speaking, out there on the street dancing for nickels tossed by passersby into overturned fedoras.

 

[DLguy]

Pretty sure this article is incorrect since Turnkey were the first to offer him. And they were only more recently hired

 

[Winasota Gopher]

Pretty sure this article is incorrect since Turnkey were the first to offer him. And they were only more recently hired

Well the author learned it from the strib. Don't care about facts, just make it sting.

 

[Moonlight]

Pretty sure this article is incorrect since Turnkey were the first to offer him. And they were only more recently hired

In keeping with the tone of the article, perhaps they mean that once Teague went up in smoke, Coyle began lusting after the position...the coast can't stand being dumped for the progressive Midwest. Maybe this makes us a trophy wife.

 

[matt]

Well the author learned it from the strib. Don't care about facts, just make it sting.

That article sounds like one from the Strib.