Re: Is It Time For Cc To Fire Scott Owens?
Well I can't be certain... Group sex isn't something I have any experience with.
I can say this - CC is a small school with a big hockey team. However, I don't think CC really offers an athlete / groupie sort of environment and the fan base doesn't really thrive on student or alumni support. It really is a community thing down here. I promise not to focus on your family though…
I also don't think that team members (students) were involved in a recruiting scandal. That’s absurd…
Actions were certainly questionable but I think this is a case of kids being kids - like that movie "Kids."
As a fan – it’s not something I’m proud of but I’m not really one to judge. We leave that to PU fans.
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I am someone who believes in higher standards of behavior for student athletes, regardless of what school they attend. Had this incident happened at DU, I'd say the exact same thing. By lowering standards and simply using the boys will be boys/kids will be kids/hockey players will be hockey players excuse, we simply enable the downward spiral to keep spinning. The movie "kids" was depicting 14-15 year olds, and we are talking about 18-22 year olds, which is a huge difference. At some point, college students are not "kids" anymore- they are young adults, many of whom are now living on their own, and they need to exercise adult levels of judgment. And this is especially true for D-I athletes, who represent their school on and off the ice, and get lots of advantages that other regular students don't get. Lampl was an upperclassman at the time of the incident, and certainly knew that having a recruit benefit from such a scenario would be a violation of the intent of NCAA legislation to remove sexual situations from recruiting trips of prospective student-athletes, and his judgement skills (both approvals and omissions) made him a correct target of suspension by his school.
This may not be a recruiting "scandal" per say, but as the 2004 CU football full-blown scandal taught us, mixing women and male sports recruiting is not a good thing, despite the long "tradition" of this in many sports. Prospects should be experiencing and picking schools for the right reasons, not for sexual services rendered. All player hosts need to be vigilant about this kind of thing.
As for the "groupie" thing, I am certain that the Tigers have some 'puck bunnies' around the team - all WCHA teams have them. It's the nature of the game - these are confident and successful young male athletes, and it comes with the territory. While CC may not have as many as other WCHA schools due to school size and CC's academic/non-traditional student body, they get 'served' much as other WCHA teams do. Assuming the sexually aggressive behavior of the woman described in the Gazette story is accurate, it's not much of a stretch to suggest that having a women having casual sex with three different hockey players in the same night would likely classify the woman as likely member of the puck bunnie/groupie category.