It will most certainly give Urban health issues.  

An extremely motivated team that is going to be playing for their well respected coach........on the road?  I don't feel the same about this game as I did 12 hours ago, that's for sure

That being said, Godspeed for Coach Kill. We need more people like him.......not just in sports

I am sure I will be negged and am not saying this is the "real" reason he is retiring but the football team has been the focus of a large number of sexual assault / harrasment allegations recently (see link below from the Star Tribune).  Administrators within the university even brought their concerns to the ex-AD Norwood Teague.  Maybe this was a contributing factor to creating stress / health problems but the sudden departure is a bit odd.

http://www.startribune.com/university-of-minnesota-football-players-accused-of-sexual-assault-harassment-and-retaliation/333075411/

Snippet of from the article:

"Kimberly Hewitt, the school’s director of equal opportunity and affirmative action, said in a July 16 e-mail to then-athletic director Norwood Teague that her office had concerns regarding complaints about football players, including two reports of sexual assault “committed by individual players,” two reports of sexual harassment involving “groups of football players” and a report of retaliation of involving “a group of football players.”

The e-mail was obtained Wednesday through a records request by the Star Tribune. In an interview Thursday, Hewitt said the concerns were raised over the course of the 2014-15 academic year. She refused to be more specific, saying that doing so could compromise student privacy. She declined to say how many players were involved, the number of alleged victims, where the alleged incidents occurred or to provide any other details. No police reports were filed, a university spokesman said."

As Coach Kill stated, he's done nothing else for 32 years.  Calling a man's life's work "silly" is shortsighted.  These coaches do more than entertain us, they commit their lives to finding ways to teach young men about the traits of excellence.  They demonstrate to all of us that with commitment, discipline, and teamwork, that any endeavor, no matter how seemingly impossible, can be achieved.  

Sure, there's coaches (and leagues) who see only wins and losses.  Whose graduates see nothing but dollar signs and celebrity. However, the majority (even at the top ranks) really do have programs that seek to give a sense of direction and purpose to their players.  They seek to inspire us all to greater heights.  

The modern world doesn't generally require us to be at our peak physically.  Despite the impressive paychecks of modern professional athletes, their pay pales in comparison with the top intellectuals and businesspeople.  Still, athletics is a very distinct and visual experience which - when looked upon with a grasp of all the work and effort that has gone into making the entertainment in front of us - leads us to drive ourselves within our talents to set ever higher standards, and push our collective world ahead.

Athletics isn't silly, it's metaphor.  The statistics and results themselves may not be individually important, but remember, it's the first step which leads to the second which leads to the third... On Saturdays, we get to see the results of all the details to which the team has already dealt.  Those details are not silly, nor is discussing that minutiae.  It ought to give us a greater perspective of what we're seeing - the payoff at the end of a long road.  

We don't discuss life and death of individuals when we talk sports, we discuss that which drives us forward as a species.  

They have both had health problems of their own.

Well if you have 20 billion dollars you can ride to outer space but you can't get a room on the space station or a condo on the moon just yet.

So what are these other options we're so lucky to have? Where else can we live other than the planet we're destroying for the profiteering of a handful of people, our only home?

I guess the no religion rule only applies if you're not all for it, but if you'd rather talk reality about how we could, need to, and should live, based on human decisions in our control rather than absurd fairy tales then that's politics and a no no.

It's fine to talk about random tragedies to individuals that nobody can do anything about. It's fine to have I hate cancer threads about individuals, but if you tied how much cancer is caused by unregulated industry, protected & promoted by government and corporate media and how many tens of millions of people or more that it affects, that's verboten.

So when there are terrible things happening to the masses that are due solely to policy and practice that is within our power to change and save/improve lives for millions, tens, or hundreds of millions that is off limits. This is not the place. In other words it's fine to pretend to care and be human, but to actually do so is unacceptable!

Glorify war and military, that's hunky dory, talk about peace, justice, working together to solve problems instead of promoting dog eat dog, that's politics and you're a terrible person for wanting rationality and humanity!

I know, I know, not here, not here, not in my backyard. But without reaching everyday people who are not immersed in issues and politics and dragging them out of their stupors and inserting the real world into the fantasy worlds you want to live in, like football without the intrusion of politics even though it is engulfed in politics, and the worst kinds, then we are literally helpless to save ourselves and make our only home a decent place to live going forward!

Who is more propagandized into accepting or cheering for the unacceptable and inhumane than sports fans who watch games & sports news on tv and listen to it on radio?

Contrary to the poster above who thinks the world is being uplifted by football and being taught all these great lessons about teamwork etc., it's just not true. Whatever the coaches might or might not be trying to teach their players that has nothing to do with what American's are taught via football fandom!

They are fed a steady diet of militarism, blind loyalty, blind faith, might makes right, translate those sports rooting traits to faux patriotism and "support for the troops" meaning support the wars and military actions and treat it like a team sport we need to cheer for rather than to understand, question or refuse to go along with.

They are sold every kind of bad, dangerous, or useless crap that destroys air, water, earth, living things, the planet, people's lives, people's time as wage slaves to the destructive systems that benefit those at the top of each pyramid scheme.

They are sold the idea that they are consumers and competitors rather than human beings, citizens, and cooperators using teamwork to fix problems and protect ourselves from major predators.

They are sold that companies are your friends with cute characters and mascots rather than your biggest enemies.

They are sold that the biggest and most self interested criminals are acceptable news sources reporting or not reporting on themselves.

It's ok they're in charge of dictating public taste and opinion and being gatekeepers on what information we get, who we can listen to, what points of views or opinions are allowed to be heard.

It's ok they're in charge of who we vote for, what our election system is, what the debates and subjects are, who can win or not, what it costs to run or win and everything else that matters!

They sell you all that garbage and sports fans are misdirected, lied to and kept from the relevant things they need to know about our country and world.

It's killing us, killing democracy, killing freedom, killing human rights and civil rights and constitutional rights.

None of that is important though, it's just politics and it shouldn't be discussed in "polite" society! Especially polite football society for fuck's sake!

The sudden retirement just tells me he had another seizure.

Epilepsy can be a symptom of a terminal condition, but by itself it isn't a death sentence by any means.  The worst aspect of it is the loss of control, which can be bad enough to result in suicide.  Dogs can sense seizures, or so I've heard, but either way we still can't prevent them.  So if you have epilepsy you can't do various things like drive, swim, or  -- and this is the rub for Kill -- be anywhere near a field engaging in a contact sport.  Pretty much anything where a sudden loss of consciousness could be fatal must be avoided, even if seizures are very rare.  Whether they happen daily or once every other year, the difficulty is preventing the next seizure from being the figurative last.  What makes it especially tough is this rules out most kinds of jobs, although Kill's better off than most in that he's made FBS coach pay.

So Kill retiring doesn't necessarily mean his long-term health is impacted.  But even if the meds went from preventing 100% of seizures to 99.9% of them, that he had one at all is grounds for him to retire immediately.  It sucks, but perfect seizure prevention is the only difference between a normal life and constant worry.

I hope he finds a way to stay around the game in a healthy setting for him and his family