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per Shipley:
University of Minnesota football players knew there would be backlash when they threatened to boycott last month’s Holiday Bowl. What they didn’t anticipate was why.
Elmore, 21, spoke to the Pioneer Press on Thursday in an effort to explain why the entire football team protested when 10 teammates were suspended on Dec. 13 in the wake of the school’s investigation into an alleged sexual assault that occurred off campus on Sept. 2.
PP: The EOAA report is leaked (Dec. 16). Did many of you guys read it?
GE: We read it then and we were like, “Yeah, this makes us look really, really bad.” But we still felt like if we could really get our message across, that what we were fighting for, that it would hurt, no doubt — that we would lose a lot of people — but we didn’t think it would be the ultimate end of what we were trying to accomplish. That morning, we read the police report, we read the court documents, so we had a pretty good understanding of what went on as far as the investigations go. The case wasn’t why we stood up. If we had seen the report, it wouldn’t have changed our stance, but it would have changed the way we negotiated.
PP: And your (suspended) teammates didn’t share any of this information with you?
GE: Friday after it was leaked, we felt like (the boycott) was over. But as bad as the report was after getting leaked, we met again as a team Friday and came to the conclusion we were going to boycott. Because throughout the day we had met with Kaler and Coyle, and we felt like they were not cooperating, and not taking us very seriously. So, we met with them that afternoon and night. … So, we go into the staff room where a lot of this took place, and we as a counsel (of players) met with Kaler and Coyle and tried to come to an agreement that would have been beneficial to both sides.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/01/0...ocial&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1483659707
Go Gophers!!
University of Minnesota football players knew there would be backlash when they threatened to boycott last month’s Holiday Bowl. What they didn’t anticipate was why.
Elmore, 21, spoke to the Pioneer Press on Thursday in an effort to explain why the entire football team protested when 10 teammates were suspended on Dec. 13 in the wake of the school’s investigation into an alleged sexual assault that occurred off campus on Sept. 2.
PP: The EOAA report is leaked (Dec. 16). Did many of you guys read it?
GE: We read it then and we were like, “Yeah, this makes us look really, really bad.” But we still felt like if we could really get our message across, that what we were fighting for, that it would hurt, no doubt — that we would lose a lot of people — but we didn’t think it would be the ultimate end of what we were trying to accomplish. That morning, we read the police report, we read the court documents, so we had a pretty good understanding of what went on as far as the investigations go. The case wasn’t why we stood up. If we had seen the report, it wouldn’t have changed our stance, but it would have changed the way we negotiated.
PP: And your (suspended) teammates didn’t share any of this information with you?
GE: Friday after it was leaked, we felt like (the boycott) was over. But as bad as the report was after getting leaked, we met again as a team Friday and came to the conclusion we were going to boycott. Because throughout the day we had met with Kaler and Coyle, and we felt like they were not cooperating, and not taking us very seriously. So, we met with them that afternoon and night. … So, we go into the staff room where a lot of this took place, and we as a counsel (of players) met with Kaler and Coyle and tried to come to an agreement that would have been beneficial to both sides.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/01/0...ocial&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1483659707
Go Gophers!!