re: Elisha Shaw

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Or get banned like this and this

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I'm a big fan of treating recruits decently, but reading the comments of the high school coaches involved there, it sounds very much like the bitchiest cryfests ever. You can just imagine the player running up to the coach, bawling his eyes out while snot runs freely from his nose, and the coach screaming in fury and swearing vengeance at the program that dared hurt his precious little angel's feelings. I get that the universities could have handled the situations better, but none of the stuff being described even remotely approached deliberate cruelty.

Actually, it sounds a helluva lot like a power trip for these HS coaches. The situations described, while regrettable, were by no means impossible to work out in sincere discussion. Instead, the coaches seem quite frank about the fact that they never had any intention of doing anything except flexing their muscle and punishing major D1 programs regardless of how the programs tried to fix the problems (which were, in the grand scheme of things, relatively minor ones.) It just oozes 'petty power trip.'