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per the NY Times:
With both sides in the Minnesota case at an apparent stalemate, the fate of the coming Holiday Bowl remains unclear. If the Golden Gophers withdraw, it would most likely be the first time in decades that a top-tier college football team bowed out of a game because of athlete protest.
“We are aware of the player boycott at the University of Minnesota and have been kept apprised on this ongoing situation,” Mark Neville, the Holiday Bowl’s executive director, said in a statement.
A Holiday Bowl spokesman declined to comment on potential replacements should Minnesota turn down the bid.
In 2012, Louisiana Tech turned down a bowl invitation in hopes of getting into a prestigious bowl after a 9-3 season but did not get another invitation and did not play in a bowl. Several teams that have finished 5-7 — which could be selected should there be too few “bowl-eligible” six-win teams to fill every slot — have said they would not accept bids.
“I think they are being smart in trying to hit the school where it hurts,” Dunn, of SurvJustice, said of the Minnesota players and the lucrative football program. “I think it would be very telling if the school bowed to that.”
Cohn, of the campus civil liberties foundation, also highlighted the players’ special status, but from a different angle. “Student-athletes should never be treated with favoritism,” he said, “nor be used to set an example.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/sports/ncaafootball/minnesota-golden-gophers-news.html?_r=0
Go Gophers!!
With both sides in the Minnesota case at an apparent stalemate, the fate of the coming Holiday Bowl remains unclear. If the Golden Gophers withdraw, it would most likely be the first time in decades that a top-tier college football team bowed out of a game because of athlete protest.
“We are aware of the player boycott at the University of Minnesota and have been kept apprised on this ongoing situation,” Mark Neville, the Holiday Bowl’s executive director, said in a statement.
A Holiday Bowl spokesman declined to comment on potential replacements should Minnesota turn down the bid.
In 2012, Louisiana Tech turned down a bowl invitation in hopes of getting into a prestigious bowl after a 9-3 season but did not get another invitation and did not play in a bowl. Several teams that have finished 5-7 — which could be selected should there be too few “bowl-eligible” six-win teams to fill every slot — have said they would not accept bids.
“I think they are being smart in trying to hit the school where it hurts,” Dunn, of SurvJustice, said of the Minnesota players and the lucrative football program. “I think it would be very telling if the school bowed to that.”
Cohn, of the campus civil liberties foundation, also highlighted the players’ special status, but from a different angle. “Student-athletes should never be treated with favoritism,” he said, “nor be used to set an example.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/sports/ncaafootball/minnesota-golden-gophers-news.html?_r=0
Go Gophers!!