Minnesota State-Mankato football coach arrested in child porn case

Can someone change the title of this thread?

I feel bad for the guy.

 

He's going back to Mankato.

 

Have to imagine he'll have some job security at this point.

 

Inexcusable that the prosecutor was that ignorant of the law. A nude picture of a child is not, per se, illegal. The picture/video etc. must be erotic, provocative, something along those lines.

Having said that, idiotic (and unfair to the kids) to have videos like that.

 

I was fully unaware of this when it broke and just learned it of it now. I covered Hoffner a bit a few moons ago and saw him out in social situations quite often. Always found him a little... off.

Not "off" as in what he was accused of but "off" as in, I could see why he may rub administrators the wrong way.

 

Somehow this story gets crazier. The team refused to come out to practice today, read a statement saying players want to play for the guy who filled in past two years, not Hoffner. That coach only lost 2 games past two years. The circus continues.

 

In a statement read aloud by junior safety Sam Thompson, the MSU-Mankato football team spoke: “As a collective unit, we’ve all agreed that we will stick together and show our support in having Aaron Keen as the head football coach at Minnesota State University, Mankato.”

http://www.startribune.com/local/255553011.html

 

What a bunch of self-serving prats. <i>What's mercy when my comfort is at stake?</i>

 

What's that even supposed to mean?

I'd stand up and applaud them.

 

The statement also talked about the players standing as citizens in the community. I would think that would include realizing an injustice on an innocent man. Drop your scholarship papers at the door to the locker room boys.

 

I re-read the story to see if I missed anything.

If these players were obviously backing the interim coach because they think Hoffner is guilty of something, that's one thing.

But they're simply saying that they're backing the guy who's been in the locker room with them the past 18 months. I can't, or won't, read anything more into it than what's down in black & white.

And I'll be damned if I'm going to crucify them for that.

 

They knew the potential ramifications of this. If they don't like it, grant a transfer.