From The Barn

Joel Maturi’s reign of error finally ends

Posted on 02. Feb, 2012 by JF.

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Months of breathless speculation and restrained hopefulness, Joel Maturi finally announced that he is stepping down as the University of Minnesota Athletic Director. Nearly ten years after he was hired in part to clean up the department after it was implicated in the academic fraud scandal that decimated the basketball program, he noted one of his greatest achievements was the lack of NCAA violations during his tenure. He did do that, but little else to benefit the university or the men’s basketball program.

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Barn Blurbs 11/03/09

Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by JF.

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The Trevor Mbakwe Round-up Two bizarre quotes stand out. “The decision is not at all based on whether I feel he is innocent or guilty. It’s an educational decision that I feel will allow Trevor to learn from.” -Joel Maturi. Mr. Maturi, what lesson are you attempting to teach? “But credit Minnesota as an institution [...]

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The Minnesota Athletic Department still knows how to screw over their fans

Posted on 10. Dec, 2008 by JF.

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The Big Ten opening game against Michigan State has been moved to 11:00 AM, to accommodate…well, I’m not sure. Yes, the game was scheduled to start at the same time as the Insight Bowl. This would be a scheduling conflict if A) More than 5 people had the NFL network, the only network televising the [...]