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MSU-Mankato coach previously dealt with sex photo scandal at UW-Eau Claire

The MSU-Mankato head football coach accused of shooting pornographic videos of his three young children has previously dealt in another case involving homemade media of a sexual nature. City Pages reports that while Todd Hoffner was the head football coach at UW-Eau Claire in 2004, he dealt with a scandal involving two players who had allegedly conspired to take an illicit picture of one of them having sex with a female student.
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The MSU-Mankato head football coach accused of shooting pornographic videos of his three young children has previously dealt in another case involving homemade media of a sexual nature. City Pages reports that while Todd Hoffner was the head football coach at UW-Eau Claire in 2004, he dealt with a scandal involving two players who had allegedly conspired to take an illicit picture of one of them having sex with a female student.

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