DMac wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:23 am
Oh, please. Where does TD's initiative to bail on his fellow Danes to go chase a title (didn't work, still got zero) via the transfer route come into play here? Oh, but that was all about the better sheepskin and quality and character of classmates/teammates...so much for that, eh?
The crying about face offs had little to do with TD and everything to do with following the rules as written/the essence of the game. Clamping the ball to the ground, withholding the ball from play, and doing the crab dance is something that should never be seen on a lacrosse field. Nor should a ball being picked up with stick in a gravity defying way (pinched in your stick like tongs would pick a ball up). This is why the rules were changed, not because TD was/is a dominant FOGO.
Wouldn't worry about TD getting screwed out of a season anymore than I would LeBron getting screwed out of a season, seems to me as if either can go find a place to play....and it sounds like TD can even still get that Yale sheepskin wherever he decides to play. What a deal.
From my perspective TD's decision to transfer to Yale doesn't come into play in this discussion. Didn't think that's what we were talking about, it's about his decision to try and go play for Denver in the 2021 season (with former Yale teammates). From what I've read, he will be getting a better "sheepskin", is that a bad thing? Relative to the character of classmates and teammates, he can probably enjoy it just as much remotely from Denver as he can from upstate NY or an apartment in New Haven. Are all his Yale classmates and teammates back on campus and in person for the spring?
Actually not worried at all about TD getting screwed out of a season... Frustrated that ALL these student athletes (in this case the Ivy League student athletes) are getting screwed out of TWO seasons!
I guess my defensiveness comes from the critics who seem to be upset TD is working to find loopholes or exceptions because he wants to play college lacrosse and compete for a National Championship. Under "normal" circumstances, I might be with you, but now facing a second lost season (and last for TD and many other seniors in the Ivy League) I don't see his approach in a negative light.