Since the Gopher players will be boycotting all football activities and want to meet with the board of trustees, it seems that college football players are starting to flex their muscle. This follows the earlier U of Missouri episode a while back.
This will be interesting to watch. You can't make this stuff up.

Any guesses as to what will happen?

It does look that way on the surface, unless this is another Duke Lacrosse situation. I'm not saying that it is, but that is the only scenario in which I could see this kind of action justified. Otherwise, it's just plain strange.

Sounds to me like Minnesota needs to be made great again.

The angle some are taking on the video is that it was short, and it's a major college town so there's always the possibility they simply agreed to let it be as oppose to actually not having a reason to press charges. Truth probably lies in the middle, as we all know.

Or more importantly should these speculative posts be deleted as other speculative posts were about the "crimes" in Athens. Oh, I forgot, that rule doesn't pertain to other schools. :(

I got a source out at the bowl game themselves saying that Minnesota has backed out of the game. Waiting to make sure that NIU can confirm traveling to the game and short logistics.

But, these players are directing their anger directly at the source, the university. Kaepernick is targeting the entire nation.

The difference in this situation is that these guys have evidence, have done nothing wrong, and are actually going after the source of the problem. When an entire team takes a stand towards the AD and university because they believe their teammates to be innocent, it raises the question of honesty here versus women lying. Which is why the Duke case was so ground-breaking in that all women aren't honest and all men aren't pigs. If that case goes the same way, which the police believed it to be and dropped it, have fun with that Minnesota. I applaud the university for ensuring safety with this case, but even then these kids have been smeared already because they were believed to be pigs.

Kaepernick on the other hand is taking a broad paint brush when all he has done is claim to be for change yet doesn't vote, sides with Castro, and attempts to instigate issues between our law enforcement and people. The folks in Minnesota have specific people they are targeting, not like what Kaeps did by calling all cops pigs. It's like calling all bankers evil people and saying we want to rid of them and then proceed to keep them in power when you hold the stock to change the status.

I'm stunned you believe that.

Way to take a "fox" approach, no pun intended. Remove six words from a larger quote to make a point knowing full well that many people will never read the whole story. Based on past posts, I'm not stunned.

Agree, LC.

If Kaepernick wanted to solve problems rather than draw negative attention and be divisive, he's in a unique position to do so. He could have done any number of things to draw positive attention to this issue and effect real change. For example, he could have hatched a San Francisco "cop committee" wherein community leaders are invited to meet with leaders of the police department to build understanding, trust, and hatch plans for overcoming racial tension. A guy like Kaepernick who has such high visibility (and pretty substantial resources) could have easily done this. And, it would have been positively effective, much better received by the nation, and could have made a real difference.

Instead, he chose to divide and piss off half the nation. Now what have we got?

Very well stated. However, let me point out the Bill of Rights, and specifically the First Amendment, gives you the right to say outrageous and even idiotic things. Kneeling during the National Anthem is certainly within the realm of "symbolic speech." It is also true that the same First Amendment gives us the right to point out how counterproductive his actions are and to question his motives and his native intelligence.

That's the problem. The nation is polarized on the issue. He didn't bring us together. He tore us apart.