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This is great news. From the same article:

The University of Minnesota’s athletics facilities leadership committee, at a private meeting Tuesday at TCF Bank Stadium, announced $94.9 million has been raised and that another $50 million is close to being secured. The project’s budget is $150 million.
 

BleedGopher said:
Sakal? Carter? Per Shooter:

One prominent ex-Gopher is not renewing his football season tickets, for which he has paid $5,000 annually, as well as withdrawing a sizeable annual contribution to the program because he feels there hasn’t been a positive change in the athletics department’s culture, policies and personnel.

http://www.twincities.com/2016/05/14/if-bruce-boudreau-won-game-7-he-might-still-be-with-ducks/

Go Gophers!!
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Too funny. Most everyone loves the result of the search - well except for a few that were hurt they weren't allowed to contribute to it. One of those apparently paid $5,000 for ST and gave an annual contribution.
 

Spoofin said:
Too funny. Most everyone loves the result of the search - well except for a few that were hurt they weren't allowed to contribute to it. One of those apparently paid $5,000 for ST and gave an annual contribution.
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This was also in Charley's column. Probably because those offers also didn't include an oversight role of their football program?

It’ll be interesting whether the Gophers’ new athletics director-marketeer, Mark Coyle, realizes the value Jerry Kill could bring to Minnesota and tries to lure the popular former football coach back into the program. Coyle and Kill chatted briefly the other day, but not substantially.

Meanwhile, Kill on Friday interviewed and received another administrative job offer working with a college football team, his fourth since retiring from Minnesota. He’s having a tough time determining whether to accept.
 

BleedGopher said:
Sakal? Carter? Per Shooter:

One prominent ex-Gopher is not renewing his football season tickets, for which he has paid $5,000 annually, as well as withdrawing a sizeable annual contribution to the program because he feels there hasn’t been a positive change in the athletics department’s culture, policies and personnel.

http://www.twincities.com/2016/05/14/if-bruce-boudreau-won-game-7-he-might-still-be-with-ducks/

Go Gophers!!
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Sack up and tell us your name, or STFU.
 


Good riddance to him


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Perhaps this comes from a place of never being in a position where anyone would want to massage my ego or pocketbook, but these crybabies are getting on my last everlasting nerve. This is how life goes, most of us are not asked our opinions when hirings are made, unless of course, we are the ones doing the hiring or paying for the hiring. Whether it's because its before my time or they just weren't that memorable, I couldn't care less if a Gopher player from the '50s, '60s, or '70s, was not properly consulted with the decision on the AD position and if he chooses to sulk anonymously through The Shooter. Hell, the Ghost of Bronko Nagurski would be annoying if he acted in such a manner. Either sack up and support the program and new AD (who by almost all accounts is a four-baser for the "U") or recede into the woodwork. Or step up and state your name and specifics as to why you are pulling your $ from the program. Most likely, the reasoning is so ridiculous that said alum is ashamed to have his name attached publicly to this decision or he just doesn't want to pump this amount of money into the program anymore for any number of reasons and this is his "stand". Another possibility is that he desires his ego be assuaged, so he hopes Coyle comes beckoning to beg for his support again. If his loyalty is so temperamental, good riddance.
 

coolhandgopher said:
Perhaps this comes from a place of never being in a position where anyone would want to massage my ego or pocketbook, but these crybabies are getting on my last everlasting nerve. This is how life goes, most of us are not asked our opinions when hirings are made, unless of course, we are the ones doing the hiring or paying for the hiring. Whether it's because its before my time or they just weren't that memorable, I couldn't care less if a Gopher player from the '50s, '60s, or '70s, was not properly consulted with the decision on the AD position and if he chooses to sulk anonymously through The Shooter. Hell, the Ghost of Bronko Nagurski would be annoying if he acted in such a manner. Either sack up and support the program and new AD (who by almost all accounts is a four-baser for the "U") or recede into the woodwork. Or step up and state your name and specifics as to why you are pulling your $ from the program. Most likely, the reasoning is so ridiculous that said alum is ashamed to have his name attached publicly to this decision or he just doesn't want to pump this amount of money into the program anymore for any number of reasons and this is his "stand". Another possibility is that he desires his ego be assuaged, so he hopes Coyle comes beckoning to beg for his support again. If his loyalty is so temperamental, good riddance.
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Awesome post. Couldn't agree more.
 



I think there is usually room in most disagreements to try and imagine the other person's viewpoint. We know Coyle is a very qualified AD without any obvious red flags. He has a short track record as the #1. What we don't know is if he will be the transformational change agent some were hoping for and that's probably where the sour grapes come in. Personally I choose to be positive about Coyle because he's obviously learned how to say and do the right things and he obviously loves the upper Midwest.
 

Anybody who is still pouting after Kaler did what any rational fan hoped he would do is just a baby. I like all of the alumni who are pissed and want it fixed, but a guy like Coyle who knows the school, knows that the politically correct games can't just be dismissed, and that gender equity can not be ignored and is still committed to fixing the place has a lot better shot than someone who has never had to put up with the BS that goes with big time academia.
Guys like Nanne know it would be the job from hell for anyone who does not know their way around big universities. they would get pissed and quit within two years.
 

corcoran1 said:
Anybody who is still pouting after Kaler did what any rational fan hoped he would do is just a baby. I like all of the alumni who are pissed and want it fixed, but a guy like Coyle who knows the school, knows that the politically correct games can't just be dismissed, and that gender equity can not be ignored and is still committed to fixing the place has a lot better shot than someone who has never had to put up with the BS that goes with big time academia.
Guys like Nanne know it would be the job from hell for anyone who does not know their way around big universities. they would get pissed and quit within two years.
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It's crossed my mind that, Coyle could have been the main target from the beginning and that the formal search was delayed because he had just taken the Syracuse job, if that's the case Kaler deserves a lot of credit.
 

So are these donors reaching out to the media to let them know they won't be supporting the program anymore? It's one thing to stop supporting but it is another to make sure everyone knows it.
 



GophersInIowa said:
So are these donors reaching out to the media to let them know they won't be supporting the program anymore? It's one thing to stop supporting but it is another to make sure everyone knows it.
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No kidding - What a bunch of D-Bags.
 

GophersInIowa said:
So are these donors reaching out to the media to let them know they won't be supporting the program anymore? It's one thing to stop supporting but it is another to make sure everyone knows it.
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They are stopping their support because the U didn't make them feel as important as they think they are. Removing support w/o yelling it out for all to hear wouldn't help their need to be recognized or feel important at all.
 

To be fair, it is the rare donor that doesn't want some sort of public recognition. So that part of this...I don't quite understand the angst. The other part of it is fair game.

Being a devil's advocate maybe he felt like the money would be better spent supporting Childhoold Leukemia or Lymphoma research, or St. Jude's charity, instead of supporting self-important coaches jet-setting around the country, and not filling up their gas tanks /ducks head/. Seriously, how hot some of you are over the Pitino stories..it's very good. Like 2015 Iowa fan delusion good.
 

nsmike said:
It's crossed my mind that, Coyle could have been the main target from the beginning and that the formal search was delayed because he had just taken the Syracuse job, if that's the case Kaler deserves a lot of credit.
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BINGO! Remember how Coyle said he had great admiration for Beth because he had been following her for the last 9 months. Why? Also, The way Beth hesitated to throw her ring in the hat, smells like she just added her name to make it look good. The U couldn't poach a guy after one month on the job, so I think the whole search was manufactured just to give Coyle time to leave.
 

My sources say it's Jim Carter and he will not be donating his massive scarf. Good riddance I say, that thing was hideous (and very large).
 

alchemy2u said:
BINGO! Remember how Coyle said he had great admiration for Beth because he had been following her for the last 9 months. Why? Also, The way Beth hesitated to throw her ring in the hat, smells like she just added her name to make it look good. The U couldn't poach a guy after one month on the job, so I think the whole search was manufactured just to give Coyle time to leave.
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Exactly why couldn't we poach a guy after 1 month? Exactly why does hiring a search committee and asking Beth to throw her hat in the ring make it look good? This theory is silly.
 


Some boosters seem to think it's 1980's and have the helmet school mentality. It's 2016 and it's a new ball game.


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betterdeadthanred said:
What seats are 5k seats?
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The only numbers that make sense, are sharing a Loge box at $1000 for a 4 seat box or $15000 for a 6 seat box, splitting the cost with someone and taking 2 seats works.
 

GophersInIowa said:
So are these donors reaching out to the media to let them know they won't be supporting the program anymore? It's one thing to stop supporting but it is another to make sure everyone knows it.
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What good is letting everyone know of you remaiin anonymous? Putty our name behind it to lend credibility. I could claim to be a big donor and vow to pull my money also. Without a name it n is all just bs reporting
 



I find it difficult to believe that any ex-Gopher would seriously contend that Mark Doyle’s hire doesn’t promise “a positive change in the athletics department’s culture, policies and personnel.” I strongly suspect that we are talking about someone who is more concerned with his, or her, own bruised ego than the best interests of Gopher sports.
 

Iceland12 said:
The note said "football season tickets, for which he has paid $5,000 annually". That could suggest multiple tickets, and probably a parking pass, equaling $5,000.
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Holy cow, what a joke! A person unwilling to make a spend of $5,000 total for 2-4 football tickets or multiple sports is not newsworthy at all. I read it at first as $5,000 per seat football tickets and figured it was an upper-mid-range ticket holder... and it still wouldn't be newsworthy unless the person was a long-time fan. A family of four going to 3-4 sports per year could easily spend that much for moderate seats.
 

alchemy2u said:
BINGO! Remember how Coyle said he had great admiration for Beth because he had been following her for the last 9 months. Why? Also, The way Beth hesitated to throw her ring in the hat, smells like she just added her name to make it look good. The U couldn't poach a guy after one month on the job, so I think the whole search was manufactured just to give Coyle time to leave.
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That's a really good angle.
 


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