What is the perception of a lacrosse player?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Define "out of control"? Did you ever see the GPAs of the entire team? Arrest records? Did they all violate the school's own conduct code? Ya don't really know, do you. I actually don't think hiring strippers is a big deal. I also didn't know you keep abreast of ongoing current events at college campuses across the US. How do you find the time? And, if Pressler was run out "partly because those kids were out of control for years", what were the other parts? He was run out of the school because of the Group of 80, a liberal academic leadership, both of which still are in place, and the overall rush to judgement, by the media and folks like you. The prosecutor was not punished for being "overzealous" - he was DISBARRED permanently for not actively investigating the case, and, withholding evidence. Do you know 1 lax kid failed African American studies, simply because he was white, on lacrosse, and the professor, like you, decided he was out of control, and clearly guilty, simply by guilt of association. Is that what a college education should be?

Hyperbole much?

You are an idiot. After the story came out, although there was a rush to judgment, Pressler was canned because the Administration had looked the other way for years.

Danowski is a great coach and brought accountability to the program. The inmates were running the asylum during the Pressler era.

[Anonymous]

You went to Duke, and you learned nothing. But at least you paid a lot to be a ass. Do you feel the amount of cocaine use is 10x as high in lax, versus B-Ball? What about the graduation rate of all D1 lax players vs that of D1 Bball? You can dress up the facts to suit your argument, but the Group of 80, Duke's President and the administration denied these boys their civil rights. Isn't Duke supposed to be an institution of higher learning? The boys learned a very tough lesson - a very good lawyer can get you out of jail, but, where do they go for the repair of their reputations? So you think the 80 have been pilloried? Do you have any idea how much each kids' family spent to defend their sons? And each then transferred.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You went to Duke, and you learned nothing. But at least you paid a lot to be a ass. Do you feel the amount of cocaine use is 10x as high in lax, versus B-Ball?

That's what the NCAA survey said.

What about the graduation rate of all D1 lax players vs that of D1 Bball? You can dress up the facts to suit your argument, but the Group of 80, Duke's President and the administration denied these boys their civil rights.

Drink that Kool-Aid.

And each then transferred.

Not quite correct. Look it up.

Look -- Mike Nifong is one of the most evil men to walk the planet. Crystal Mangum isn't far behind. But all the BS slung at Duke and the depiction of the team as some sort of band of choirboys is nonsense. If these folks thought they had a rough time at Duke, imagine if Duke had allowed the season to continue and these guys -- without what we now know about Nifong -- had played at some place like Maryland. You'd need a battalion of police to keep them safe.

They want more scapegoats, and some people have political agendas to further. It's all entitlement-driven. Which, sadly, is what you would expect from these folks. Go to Duke and take that fast track to Wall Street, where the strippers are classier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been hearing a lot of "bad press" on them. Like they are considered to be very cocky, rich, arrogant and entitled. This stereotype really bothers me. My son is going into 9th grade and a top player (by all accounts) but in no way is he this way. I wonder if they are looked at this way across the board?

yup. this.

[Anonymous]

The two guys I knew who played lacrosse were white, upper-middle class boys. One was a douche, the other was super cool. Even people in the same demographic can't be lumped in together.