I think there's a middle ground here and not everything is black and white.
I don't think people should go out of their way to bash LM.
But I also think it's ridiculous to not expect people to discuss his background given Diaco's comments.
I don't buy the glass houses and keep your mouths shut just because LM's father posts here. They're D1 football players in the public eye. I say all of this with the utmost respect for Puppy4.
I wish Lyle and his dad nothing but the best. Hopefully Lyle will learn from his mistakes as he moves on in life. That's really all I have to say on the matter.
See, this is the kind of thing that is weird around here. It's something that has carried through for a while I think. WHen I first started writing a few years ago now - I pretty much had to everything short of a blood, urine and fingerprints to prove that I was NOT related to Zach Frazer. All based on the things I was writing about players, and all based on their performance on the field, and who I thought was doing well, and who wasn't and shoudl be playing and all that. What fans do. Weirdest thing ever. I'm still not related to Frazer btw.
last season, I blew my top after the UCF game - questioned a lot of stuff about the players and the program based on what happened during that game. A certain player happened to be the focus of my blowing my top. It was all based on, on field performance. What I saw, in behaviours, and performances. Lost my . I don't take a word back for it either. It was all accurate and on point in my opinion.
What happened? A certain parent decided to take offense and respond. (my personal opinion is that parents and friends should avoid fan forums like this at all costs, but whatever).
The powers that be that control this environment reprimanded me. For breaking the rule about being a d0uche.
I found that out, and still find it odd, that I was breaking the rule about being a d0uche, yet when it comes to things like attacking a players actual character and behavior off the field, which is something I try to avoid to do, and pretty sure I did do, and I kept going back yesterday when it became pretty clear that this leaving the program was not voluntary, things that were written and said about Cody Endres - specifically his character, when he not only was told he wouldn't play anymore, but also got his scholarship pulled, that I just decided to delete some stuff - which just happened to be quotes from the head coach anyway - nothing inflammatory - because I knew that friends and family were going to find out anyway, and I didn't want to be a contributor to that.
All of that, before sportsart wrote his post.
I think that it would be a good idea that there be guidelines of some basic sort, beyond - breaking the rules about being a - when somebody in a forum like this actually chooses to identify themselves as a relative of a player. whatever sport. Not for me to decide though.
That's all I'll write in this thread. Don't want to cause anymore undue aging process to the children reading.
