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The world of division one college football is a crazy place. With 134 FBS programs — including the Minnesota Gophers — all trying to do whatever it takes to win, that shouldn’t be a surprise. But where some schools offer structure and discipline from the top down, others are drowning in mismanagement, low standards and chaos.
At the U of M, we have seen the extremes on both sides. PJ Fleck was hired as Golden Gophers head football coach back in 2017, following a sexual assault scandal involving 10 football players from Tracy Claeys’ team in 2016.
When they were hired, both Fleck and athletic director Mark Coyle were seen as “fixers”. Not just fixers of the football program, but from a Norwood Teague athletic department wrought with documented scandals and inappropriate behavior during his three-year tenure as AD, from 2012-2015.
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Today, we seem long removed from all of the chaos that engulfed the Minnesota Gophers athletic department in the early to mid 2010s, but that doesn’t mean other schools around the country aren’t dealing with similar incompetence.
Former MN Gophers running backs coach in big trouble at Kent State
What I didn’t expect was for one of those programs in turmoil to be Kent State University, which on Thursday night placed its head football coach (and former Minnesota Gophers running backs coach) Kenni Burns on paid administrative leave.
The reasoning for Burns’s suspension was not given, but it’s not believed to be due to the dreadful Golden Flashes being 1-21 in two seasons under Kenni Burns, the 41-year-old former running back at Indiana.
Sources: Kent State football coach Kenni…
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