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Minnesota players boycott football after suspensions due to school's sexual assault investigation
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/12/15/13976784/minnesota-football-boycott-suspensions-sexual-assault-holiday-bowl ^

Posted on 12/15/2016 7:55:34 PM PST by TigerClaws

The Minnesota football team has announced a boycott of football following the suspension of 10 Gophers after a sexual assault investigation by the school.

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, players threatened to boycott the Dec. 27 Holiday Bowl against Washington State in protest of the 10 players being suspended. The team held a players-only meeting and later brought in head coach Tracy Claeys, informing him of their plans. Afterward, they announced the football boycott to reporters.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
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To: neocon1984

Does this institution have a code of conduct? Did the athletes, as students, agree to abide by the code of conduct? If so, does participating in (leaving consent issues aside for the moment) a videotaped, alcohol-fueled gang-bang violate the code of conduct? If so, case closed.


61 posted on 12/16/2016 4:55:30 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: TigerClaws

——Someone needs to man up.-——

Hey..... it’s Minesoooota.


62 posted on 12/16/2016 4:57:06 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: mewzilla
..If so, case closed.

It was closed by the DA for lack of evidence. Unfortunately, you are of the same mindset as college administrators who feel they have the powers of judge, jury and executioner.

63 posted on 12/16/2016 6:17:54 AM PST by neocon1984
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To: mewzilla
While I agree these idiots are thugs who deserve everything the LAW can throw against them, this is a university that refuses to release the color of suspects, and has college "codes of ethics" which can expel someone for offending another student. The entire University, especially the sport department, is a complete cluster.

Police could have pressed charges if they wanted to do so. They chose not to do that. That was the mistake here.

64 posted on 12/16/2016 6:27:37 AM PST by Solson (Trump 2016!)
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To: WENDLE

Some people are reacting and not reading the article. I am glad someone is taking a stand. This is another unfair Duke Lacrosse team situation.


65 posted on 12/16/2016 9:45:22 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: castlebrew

Did you understand that they are protesting their suspensions for no due process?


66 posted on 12/16/2016 9:46:32 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: TigerClaws
Cancel the bowl game.

Too many damn bowls anyway.. already 40 and counting.

67 posted on 12/16/2016 9:50:34 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: cherry

Common sense tells you don’t decide to do a line of football players and then go to a hospital. Chances are they slipped her a roofie and then raped her. She decided not to press charges for whatever reason.

I’m a fraternity adviser and every year I tell them “Even if she was sober and alert when she wants to pull a train, crazy can’t give consent. She will claim rape because she is crazy”.


68 posted on 12/16/2016 9:52:50 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: neocon1984

I can see why the prosecutor dropped the case. But if he team members violated the school’s code of conduct, they deserve everything they’ve got coming on that end.


69 posted on 12/16/2016 9:53:15 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Solson

Render unto Caesar, ok? We are talking criminal, civil, and code of conduct. Those degenerates are off the hook when it comes to the first two. As to the latter, if the team members violated the code of conduct, they should be held to account.


70 posted on 12/16/2016 9:56:56 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

“women, don’t get drunk around men, unless you are ok with any f*cking which subsequently happens. “

If you get get drunk and pass out around some men, they turn out to be pervs and they rape you, you were asking for it ?


71 posted on 12/16/2016 9:57:02 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: AppyPappy

Lot of posters here seem to have little respect for women.


72 posted on 12/16/2016 10:46:42 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Lent

Not an allegation, there’s video evidence. Vague as to whether she was a willing participant, or not.
U of M cheerleader.


73 posted on 12/16/2016 11:18:08 AM PST by Fireone (The future must belong to those who tell the truth about Islam.)
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To: Fireone

It’s an allegation until proven in a court of law by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. But since it won’t even go to that extent there’s nothing further here and the players need to be left alone.


74 posted on 12/16/2016 12:03:18 PM PST by Lent
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To: mn-bush-man

I read that on the ESPN app so can’t send a link. But I imagine it is also on the ESPN website.


75 posted on 12/16/2016 2:29:14 PM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: mewzilla

If both parties were impaired, why is the guy to blame? If a woman drives drunk does that not count either?


76 posted on 12/16/2016 2:57:14 PM PST by rb22982
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To: AppyPappy

If you go walking through an “inner city” neighborhood counting a wad of $100 bills, don’t be surprised if something bad happens. Saying that doesn’t mean I approve, it means that the probability of you regreting that decision is high.

In the case of drunk college girls, hanging around drunk college guys, there’s an additional factor that the guy (being drunk himself) might misinterpret the girl’s behavior as a signal of consent.

It’s just better policy all around, for girls to just NOT GET DRUNK around guys who they don’t plan on winding up in bed with.


77 posted on 12/16/2016 6:28:33 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: TigerClaws

It’s not a case of having “little respect for women” it’s a case of being tired of women who display a complete lack of common sense.


78 posted on 12/16/2016 6:32:23 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: rb22982

I have no problem holding her to the same standard as the men, for any consensual conduct, if she has an employment contract with a morals clause, or if she signed a code of conduct.


79 posted on 12/16/2016 6:39:45 PM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: TigerClaws

It’s just typical freeper nastiness of blaming victim

Kid gets killed driving too fast....Darwin laughing abounds

Mountain climber falls and there are those who pray no money was wasted finding their dumb risk taking corpse

White girl gets drunk around a group of black thugletes and she asked for it

This is the ugly nature of folks who like being jerks anonymously

I don’t see this lack of empathy in my family or social or business circle

That poor girl gangraped by the Vandy thugs which included the traitor cracker who pimped her out....just for the diversity record

She’s had to endure trial after trial to prevail


80 posted on 12/16/2016 6:45:24 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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