The University of Minnesota's Athletes Village project has been pitched as a $190-million plan to bring the athletics department in line with Big Ten rivals such as Wisconsin and Iowa, if not Ohio State and Michigan.
"We've got to take care of our players," coach Jerry Kill said Friday. "Everything that has players involved in it, that needs to be the best."
But with only $70 million secured for the project, a Title IX investigation keeping some of the building site off limits and last week's scandalous resignation by athletics director Norwood Teague, it seems unlikely the school can meet its goal of breaking ground this fall.