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[QUOTE="laxobserver, post: 3858561, member: 7745"]
Questions need to start being asked about why this kid was even on the team in the spring in the first place. Leaving the latest incident and the Titlex IX stuff out of it. There have now been multiple reports, and likely more coming, that this player was known to have issues and was involved in his fair share of other incidents long before the most recent debacle.

I've now heard from another source very close to the team (a 2019 alum, family friend) that Scanlan definitely got into it with Peter Dearth in the fall, though he was unsure of specifics.

It is not difficult to come to the conclusion that the staff, perhaps thinking they were already on the hot seat, turned a blind eye to a player exhibiting dangerous tendencies because they thought he could help them on the lacrosse field and would thus stave off speculation about a coaching change. It's not some grand leap to believe priorities were horribly mismanaged here.

Players get kicked off of teams every year for extremely minor stuff. Knowing what we know now, it's disturbing to me that this player lasted this long. Either the staff knew about him all along and took no action, or they didn't know about him, and to me that might be almost as bad, because it would imply they have seriously lost touch with their own players.
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