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Understand the leverage: these football players were never going to go through with the boycott. Why? The entire NCAA football structure is designed to give the University total control and leave nothing for the players. This University system is run by the ultra-liberal, they're okay with a boycott when its for something they like (University of Missouri) but very much against when its for something they don't like. Missouri could have used the same tactics Minnesota did, but the player's boycott was sympathetic to the liberal community, in that case.

The players have revoked their boycott in exchange for hearings a month from now. Those hearings won't happen, or, if they do, they'll be behind closed doors and resolve nothing. This was mutually assured destruction at its finest: yes, the players could destroy the University and everything associated with it. Football is a big money maker, and a source of prestige, they could have decimated the program for an entire generation by walking out. They were never going to do that, because if they did, the University would destroy all of their lives. They'd lose their scholarship, they wouldn't be able to easily find another, and they'd be outcasts from the state of Minnesota, the University and that community for the rest of their lives. The players had more to lose than the system did, so they blinked, as the system was designed to ensure.

Here's the best that can be hoped for: by even publicly announcing the boycott, they have done a great deal of damage to the gopher's football program. Schools like Minnesota recruit against every other top school in the Big 10 conference for top high school talents. Every single opposing coach who walks into a recruit's home will be sure to bring this up, and to mention this injustice, as a tool to recruit against Minnesota. Every other coach will lead his pitch with some form of "if you come to my University, I can and will protect you and stand up for you", even though its a lie (where was the gopher's head coach in all of this?) Whenever a school suffers a PR blow like this, every coach who recruits against that school makes sure that all the recruits know about it.

By agreeing to play in the Holiday Bowl, the players have given up their leverage for a benefit to be paid out a future time: a hearing in a month. Anyone who knows Briffault's law can tell you that hearing will now happen on the Universities' terms.

TL;DR - Gophers football gives up its boycott.

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KyfhoMyoba 7y ago

(where was the gopher's head coach in all of this?)

When I read about this in the paper (USA Today?), the coach's full backing of his players was mentioned in the 1st or 2nd paragraph.

firstpitchthrow 7y ago

It also said that he indicated he was risking his job to back his players. Funny that the University of Missouri coach was not.

br_21 7y ago

And he gets fired in the end. http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18402000/minnesota-golden-gophers-fire-tracy-claeys-response-players-boycott

firstpitchthrow 7y ago

so, he knew this was coming. That coach is a smart guy, and he could read the tea leaves, in addition to being an excellent coach. This is the best the Gopher's football team has ever been.

chadlarson 7y ago

The woman involved was a part of the college football program. The first encounter she had was a 3 way that involved an UNDERAGE recruit. This encounter appears consensual in the reports.

Had the story stopped there, you would have had:

University employee/volunteer had sex with an underage prospective student. That raises the legal possibility of statutory rape (depending on their consent laws) if MN has the "position of authority" law, not sure)

Notwithstanding, there was video taken. Plenty of men are sitting in jails and on registries for life for possession of images/videos of 16/17 year old "kids". So if this adult woman who was having consensual sex with an underage boy knew that a video was being take, she was PRODUCING CHILD PORN.

The fact (it appears) that she was assaulted later in the night by different guys shouldn't matter. She committed her crime before she was a victim.

[deleted] 7y ago

The statement revealed that the 10 players remain suspended, but also said that the players will have a "fair hearing" in front of a "diverse review panel."

Implying that they didn't get one before.

Although the 10 players are suspended, it remains to be seen whether this boycott worked or not.

They should release the tape of them fucking.

RunawayGrain 7y ago

Well, unless they show up and just stand there. Which would deprive the school of the ability to work around the boycott. That won't happen, but it would be brilliant.

donniedarko5555 7y ago

10 of the men accused are black. Anyone who has read to kill a mockingbird knows how much due process a black man can expect when it comes to an accusation of a sex crime.

firstpitchthrow 7y ago

The progressive stack in a nutshell, this protest would be celebrated if they were black, but because they are also men, and because they play football, they're evil.

marinewannabee97 7y ago

Make no mistake, the black guys on the team are hated by the liberal establishment as much as the whites. They play football so it's safe to assume they are big lads, they also attend classes so it's safe to assume that they are at least fairly intelligent and to pile it on, they dared to defy their supreme liberal overlords. To the "tolerant left" the players are nothing but "yard niggers" or "uncle tom's".