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per Shama:
But despite winning seven games and being bowl eligible for a fourth consecutive season, Claeys and the Gophers have stirred minimal interest and passion in this competitive sports marketplace. Attendance is down at home games with the Gophers headed toward their lowest average since moving into TCF Bank Stadium in 2009. Claeys talks about recruiting “going well” but the Gophers’ 2017 class ranks near the bottom of the Big Ten, according to authorities like 247sports.com. Recruits include those with minimal or no offers from prominent football schools.
The public is frequently critical of the Gophers, and sometimes even mean-spirited. When folks want to be nasty, they target the coach’s appearance. Claeys, like many Minnesotans, is overweight and he certainly won’t be modeling clothes for GQ any time soon. “I have one suit. That’s all I got,” Claeys said this week.
That’s Claeys, a humble, straight talking bachelor from small town Clay Center, Kansas who is completing his first contract year and wants to stick around Dinkytown. He hopes new athletic director Mark Coyle will extend his deal, and Claeys mentioned on his Tuesday KFAN Radio show this week that having only two years on a coach’s contract can be used against the Gophers in recruiting.
Claeys probably won’t have to work under such circumstances. Coyle will either extend Claeys, or go in a different direction before December. The coach can finish the regular season no worse than 7-5 overall, and 4-5 in conference games. Those could be chancy numbers when it comes to Claeys’ future.
The good news is he and the team will have a lot to say about their fate the next three Saturdays.
http://shamasportsheadliners.com/
Go Gophers!!
But despite winning seven games and being bowl eligible for a fourth consecutive season, Claeys and the Gophers have stirred minimal interest and passion in this competitive sports marketplace. Attendance is down at home games with the Gophers headed toward their lowest average since moving into TCF Bank Stadium in 2009. Claeys talks about recruiting “going well” but the Gophers’ 2017 class ranks near the bottom of the Big Ten, according to authorities like 247sports.com. Recruits include those with minimal or no offers from prominent football schools.
The public is frequently critical of the Gophers, and sometimes even mean-spirited. When folks want to be nasty, they target the coach’s appearance. Claeys, like many Minnesotans, is overweight and he certainly won’t be modeling clothes for GQ any time soon. “I have one suit. That’s all I got,” Claeys said this week.
That’s Claeys, a humble, straight talking bachelor from small town Clay Center, Kansas who is completing his first contract year and wants to stick around Dinkytown. He hopes new athletic director Mark Coyle will extend his deal, and Claeys mentioned on his Tuesday KFAN Radio show this week that having only two years on a coach’s contract can be used against the Gophers in recruiting.
Claeys probably won’t have to work under such circumstances. Coyle will either extend Claeys, or go in a different direction before December. The coach can finish the regular season no worse than 7-5 overall, and 4-5 in conference games. Those could be chancy numbers when it comes to Claeys’ future.
The good news is he and the team will have a lot to say about their fate the next three Saturdays.
http://shamasportsheadliners.com/
Go Gophers!!
