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Do you think it would be possible? Without Pressler, I would suspect most players to high-tail it out of there. Who wants to play a sport they love where they are not welcome?.

I have a prediction: One current player's Dad is the head coach at #2 ranked Hofstra. Although Hofstra is not as highly academically ranked as Duke, the players might feel more at home. My prediction is several will be attending next year.

Well, I can just see the gutless Brodhead caving in to the faculty and fraction of the student body who would have loved to see lacrosse discontinued before this because of the "culture of violence".

IMHO Pressler is a great coach but I'm 50/50 on him returning because he did fail to rein in the relatively small fraction of his team that was pushing the limit. Yes, they were off campus in a private house but he had to know he would take the heat for any of their misdeeds and for his own self interest he needed to have done so. Apparently he had enough warning that could have nipped it in the bud. All he has to do to get a certain standard of behavior from his players is to threaten them with no playing time. These guys love much for lax for them to not fall in line. Maybe now Pressler has been properly punished himself that he would have the zero tolerance in the future that he needed to have in the past.

The other practical difficulty for him is that if the lax players are eventually exonerated because they are in fact not guilty of rape there will be a significant segment of Durham that will think it's just the latest example of "white privilege". Durham has a significant gang problem and I can see Pressler and his family being right in the bulls eye.