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05-31-2007, 09:45 PM
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Duke Lacrosse players granted 5th year of eligiblity
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NCAA has awarded 33 Duke lacrosse players a 5th year of eligibility. An interesting situation, I think the NCAA did the right thing. This is huge for Duke who had 13 Seniors who thought they had played their last game in Monday's loss to Johns Hopkins. This should make them the pre-season #1 team next year. Tewaarton (Lacrosse's Heisman) winner Matt Danowski; 1st team All-Americans Zack Greer, Casey Carrol & Nick O'Hara & 3rd team All-Americans Tony McDevitt & Dan Loftus were all seniors this season. Danowski was expected to be the top pick in tonight's Major League Lacrosse draft but has not been selected in the first 2 rounds. Zack Greer was also expected to go in the first round and remains undrafted. I would assume this means they've told teams they are retuning to Duke. 
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05-31-2007, 10:09 PM
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Re: Duke Lacrosse players granted 5th year of eligiblity
The NCAA is retarded for granting this, and Duke is a giant gaywad for even asking for it. DUKE is the one that suspended the whole team based on speculative claims from a crack whore. ugh.
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05-31-2007, 10:09 PM
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Re: Duke Lacrosse players granted 5th year of eligiblity
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Such [censored]. The NCAA sets an awful precedent. [/ QUOTE ] uhh how so? NCAA is shockingly doing the right thing.
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05-31-2007, 10:15 PM
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Re: Duke Lacrosse players granted 5th year of eligiblity
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This is the wrong thing. Duke is being rewarded for throwing its guys under the bus. [/ QUOTE ] Or doing the right thing by not penalizing the players thrown under the bus.
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#7
05-31-2007, 10:27 PM
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Re: Duke Lacrosse players granted 5th year of eligiblity
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[ QUOTE ] Such [censored]. The NCAA sets an awful precedent. [/ QUOTE ] uhh how so? NCAA is shockingly doing the right thing. [/ QUOTE ] First and foremost, DUKE cancelled Duke's season. Not anybody else. Not the NCAA. Secondly, the NCAA is the first one to come down as hard as they can from some kid that gets lunch money from a coach. Now a school cancels their own season and the kids get an extra year. Thirdly, they played half the [censored] year! Fourthly, yes the kids were innocent of the accused crime. But let's not pretend that they didn't set up what was probably a dangerous situation. And I'm sure there were crimes committed, as there was surely underage drinking going on at the house. Fifthly, the NCAA has denied medical redshirts to players who have played less than a quarter of a team's games. Sixthly, does every NCAA athlete suspend in the course of a felony investigation now get his or her season back? Sevently, what's to prevent a school now from creating a false controversy, canceling a season, and applying for all team members to get an extra year of eligibility? Eightly, lacrosse teams are replete with underclassmen who get very little, if any, playing time. These kids who would have gotten no playing time, now get a full year of playing time as more developed players, to the benefit of Duke or another school, and to the detriment of every other school playing the sport. Ninthly, Duke [censored] up and everybody else on their schedule for the next 3 years has to play against 5th year seniors? How exactly is that fair to their opponents? Tenthly, 2 of the teams games were canceled SOLELY BECAUSE OF THE PARTY, and not because of the rape allegations. (At least according to the official statement...they probably knew about the coming allegations at the time.) I think 10 is enough.
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#8
05-31-2007, 10:53 PM
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Re: Duke Lacrosse players granted 5th year of eligiblity
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[ QUOTE ] This is the wrong thing. Duke is being rewarded for throwing its guys under the bus. [/ QUOTE ] Or doing the right thing by not penalizing the players thrown under the bus. [/ QUOTE ] Duke cancelled the season, not the NCAA. If the players feel wronged (as they should), they should take it up with Duke. Maybe I'm looking at it too simplistically, but the NCAA is essentially bailing out Duke here for its egregious error.
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#9
05-31-2007, 11:05 PM
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Re: Duke Lacrosse players granted 5th year of eligiblity
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Duke cancelled the season, not the NCAA. If the players feel wronged (as they should), they should take it up with Duke. [/ QUOTE ] Does Duke have the ability to grant them an extra year of eligibility? What can Duke do for them, other than back them up in asking for more eligibility? Is this really going to be a huge incentive for schools to go around cancelling seasons figuring "no worries, the NCAA's got our back if we're wrong, LOL"?
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#10
05-31-2007, 11:07 PM
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Re: Duke Lacrosse players granted 5th year of eligiblity
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Sevently, what's to prevent a school now from creating a false controversy, canceling a season, and applying for all team members to get an extra year of eligibility? [/ QUOTE ] Terrible PR?
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