Let's make it clear that this isn't an official Minnesota Gophers football camp. This is being operated under the "Coach Claeys Football Camps" banner and is a private event, not one officially tied to the university. What is being disputed is the dubious nature of the "double booking".
If we are to believe the U's story, they book an ENTIRE FOOTBALL COMPLEX so flippantly that they can't remember which events are booked on what day. The DCI Minnesota has been coming annually to TCF Stadium since 2010 so this isn't a brand new reservation:
2010 - Saturday, July 17th
2011 - Saturday - July 16th
2012 - Saturday - July 14th
2013 - Saturday - July 13th
2014 - Moved from TCF due to aforementioned "Norwood Teague wants box seats for him and his friends" fiasco (discussed in the article)
2015 - Saturday, July 11th
So you see the pattern here. That this is being treated as any sort of surprise by the U of M is a load of BS. This event happens right around the same Saturday every single year.
What's going on here is a continuation of the suspect-at-best decision making going on in the athletics department. The Tracy Claeys event lasts FOUR HOURS in duration so effectively the U is declining a $96k/4 = $24,000/hour gig in favor of one where the morbidly obese football coach yells at young men about "discipline" (not caloric discipline, mind you), "hard work" (just not hard work in the gym, or in the produce section of the grocery store) and "dedication" (to never stop striving for a world record waistband number on your pants).
I've supported U of M athletics like everyone else but this is frankly a load of bull**** and I'm looking forward to DCI taking their contract money to Camp Randall just to continue the esteemed reputation and decision making of this university's administration and athletics department.