Minnesota suspensions

First, SCOOP - Michigan loses recruit Isaiah Wilson because of Jim Harbaugh tantrum.

The Minnesota Golden Gophers football team is in a bad place.

The woman says she drank "as many as" six shots of vodka before she began partying and was later gang raped by ten Gopher football players.  The police did not file charges.  Earlier she obtained a restraining order preventing two players from playing in a home game.

The university has suspended the ten players and isn't saying anything because of privacy considerations.  The team is boycotting and won't practice or play in the 8-4 Gophers bowl game.

Here's the coach, Tracy Claeys, that I'm curious about.  Isn't this kind of a no-win position?

In response to the boycott, Gophers coach Tracy Claeys tweeted: "Have never been more proud of our kids. I respect their rights and support their effort to make a better world."

If the school is following federal guidelines, why is Claeys opposed?  And, to the administrators, why do they appear to be cowering?

If this escalates the most analogous situation may turn out to be...  Missouri.  Yes, Missouri, the titan of the SEC.  First it was Ferguson and then it was discrimination accusations so widespread they affected enrollment at the entire university for years.

These partying rape cases are getting crazy.  I mean, you can't suspend every player, you won't have a game?

Update - The boycott ended quickly.  Claeys told the players there was a "great chance" he'd be fired.  They did it, the boycott, anyway.

EDIT:  If she was passed-out, or close, or maybe just that there were ten players young men involved, they almost certainly shouldn't have done it.

LEGAL EDIT:  You can bet the police were thorough--rape, pictures, drugs, etc.  Consensual probably was key and can be blurry.  Title IX is complex too.