A Power 5 school taking another Power 5 school’s athletics director is a boss move. Showing up to his house in your branded 18-wheeler? That’s some Kenny Powers level stuff.
A pair of Syracuse media outlets showed up to now-former Syracuse AD Mark Coyle‘s house on moving day and spied Minnesota’s equipment truck there ready to move his belongings to Minneapolis.
Spied near NewsChannel 9 this afternoon. Mark Coyle's moving van? @SteveInfantiNC9 @BrentAxeMedia pic.twitter.com/rbS9yrMTpS
— Jim Teske (@JimTeskeNC9) June 8, 2016
A Minnesota football moving van actually came to get Mark Coyle's stuff https://t.co/wM7F1AYDRZ pic.twitter.com/Lb1t4kbcb7
— syracuse.com (@syracusedotcom) June 8, 2016
Reached by the Syracuse Post-Standard, Minnesota said the Gophers’ truck showing up on moving day was a mistake:
“A University of Minnesota football equipment truck has occasionally been used to move new employees to Minnesota,” Minnesota communications director Paul Rovnak told the paper. “In this situation, a different truck should have been used by the transportation company who owns the vehicle. Mark Coyle and members of the Minnesota athletic department were not aware that this truck was being used.”
It appears the entire episode was a big misunderstanding. A big, funny misunderstanding.