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[QUOTE="Purple Haze, post: 3854110, member: 5843"]
My thoughts on the Chase Scanlan situation.

Assuming all the stories and innuendos are true, maybe instead of turning their back and abandoning Chase, they might want to consider getting him some help.  I'm not saying he should be back on the field - the hard truth is that for all intents and purposes his playing days are over.  So what do we do - kick him to the curb and bemoan the waste of talent?

Everyone wants to praise the players for posting statements on their social media about about domestic violence - not to belittle the gesture, but literally that is the least they could do.  Einstein said that adversity introduces a man to himself.  Chase has led a privileged life these past 10 years - coddled by a system because he is an extraordinary talent.  He is about to meet himself.  Rarely do we see some at the crossroads of their life - we just don't see it in the moment.

And I am not - in any way, shape or form - condoning what he is said to have done. It is abhorrent and there is a price to be paid.  He is only at the beginning of paying that price.  He will be shunned by the PLL and forever be marked as that guy caught putting his hands on a woman (and I say caught because statistically speaking he is most certainly not the only D1 lacrosse player to have done so).

So do we just abandon and shun him?  Mark him with a Scarlet Letter and move on to the next guy who can dodge from X?

Or as his teammates...those we think of as our college family...do they owe him more?

Maybe John Desko was right...
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