Rossow: Holiday Bowl upset further complicates Coyle’s decision on Tracy Claeys

[BleedGopher]

per Rossow:

The Holiday Bowl was finally played Tuesday evening, and under a national microscope, the Golden Gophers football team partook.

But rather than a characterless performance from a new lineup against Washington State, the shorthanded Gophers played their most inspired football of the season and upset the Cougars 17-12 in San Diego.

With the stellar outing, University of Minnesota Athletics Director Mark Coyle’s decision about Tracy Claeys’ job got a lot tougher.

Any loss would have added more fuel to the discussion about firing Claeys after his questionable handling of the team’s two-day boycott earlier this month. A blowout loss on national television would probably have sealed his fate.

If Coyle decides to pull the trigger on Claeys now, it won’t be for football reasons.

http://www.1500espn.com/gophers-2/2...set-complicates-coyles-decision-tracy-claeys/

Go Gophers!!

 

[2nd Degree Gopher]

per Rossow:

Any loss would have added more fuel to the discussion about firing Claeys after his questionable handling of the team’s two-day boycott earlier this month. A blowout loss on national television would probably have sealed his fate.

If Coyle decides to pull the trigger on Claeys now, it won’t be for football reasons.

http://www.1500espn.com/gophers-2/2...set-complicates-coyles-decision-tracy-claeys/

I'm sure that a loss would have made the PR surrounding a decision to fire him easier, but this decision was never going to be made for football reasons, nor should it be. If they think Claeys' conduct is punishable by firing, then they should fire him whether he won four games or fourteen games.

 

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