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Crime and Justice · Education · Sports

Report: U of M followed procedures, laws in football suspensions

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2017, 8:10 AM Aug 16, 2017
5 Comments

A report by a law firm hired by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents says the university followed its own rules and the law when it suspended 10 football players last year in a Title IX investigation of the sexual assault of a woman.
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Education · Sports

Back-up U of M football player gets full scholarship via T-shirt

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 10, 2017, 6:30 AM Aug 10, 2017
24 Comments

There’s a fair amount of theater in matters involving football but University of Minnesota football coach P.J. Fleck, a showman of the first order, provided a genuine moment yesterday when he gave a big nod to a kid who’s been showing up for the team and never played a game. Read more →

Education · Politics · Sports

Regents want bigger say in size of U of M coaching deals

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 17, 2017, 7:54 AM Jan 17, 2017
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New University of Minnesota football coach P.J. Fleck could make $18 million over five years, the largest contract ever given out to a U of M coach. And some members of the Board of Regents think the board should have something to say about spending that kind of money.
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Crime and Justice · Education

U of M football player says team didn’t consider alleged sexual assault victim

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 6, 2017, 6:40 AM Jan 6, 2017
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A University of Minnesota football player has provided new insight into what the team was thinking when it called a boycott of football activities to protest the suspension of 10 players who were accused of sexually assaulting a woman after a September party.
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Crime and Justice · Education · Sports

Why do scandals keep happening at the U of M?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2017, 6:47 AM Jan 4, 2017
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The firing of University of Minnesota football coach Tracy Claeys reinforces a good piece of advice: Be careful what you tweet. And don’t thumb your noses at the people who sign your paycheck.

Claeys was a success on the field and really bad at social media off it. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Education · Sports

AP: Gophers players almost reinstated boycott over suspensions

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2016, 7:16 AM Dec 27, 2016
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The Associated Press is reporting that the decision by the University of Minnesota football team to end its “boycott” to protest the suspension of 10 players alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman, was not as final as first reported. Read more →

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The last days of the Tracy Claeys era?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2016, 9:32 AM Dec 22, 2016
30 Comments

It’s fair to say that Pioneer Press columnist Joe Soucheray is hardly liberal.

So when he wrote today about the scandal at the University of Minnesota football program, and the head coach who oversees the student athletes, it’s going to be harder for the few still on the ‘what’s the big deal?’ bandwagon to hold on. Read more →

Education · Sports

In U of M football scandal, a defense of millennials

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 20, 2016, 7:48 AM Dec 20, 2016
83 Comments

Among the more absurd observations in the wake of last week’s ‘boycott’ by the student-athletes of the University of Minnesota football team, was this in Star Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse’s column on Saturday.
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