Posted on 05/11/2010 11:04:02 AM PDT by CondorFlight
Junior goalie Dan Loftus and his brother, Chris, a sophomore attackman, grew up in Syosset, Long Island, sons of Barbara and Brian, a retired New York City fireman who worked 36 straight hours at the World Trade Center immediately after the attacks on Sept. 11. "I thought that was the worst day of my life," Brian says. "You want to know something? This is the worst thing."
Like most of the parents, the Loftuses had grilled their sons. "How many times did I say to him on the phone? 'Danny, did anything happen?'" Brian Loftus says to Barbara one weekend in May. "I asked him 10 times. He goes, 'No, no, no, no.'"
"This is not a time to lie and cover up for your friends!" Barbara remembers chiming in. "Did anything happen?"
Over Easter weekend, convinced of their sons' innocence but terrified it wouldn't matter, "we sat here like zombies," Brian says. "I didn't want to talk to anybody."
From the article:
“Coach K, perhaps the only figure of sufficient stature capable of single-handedly reversing the tide, was nowhere to be seen. Sports writers must have interpreted his silence as indicating that he thought the players were guilty. (Surely he would have found some way to indicate his disagreement, if he had one?). His own team hired strippers shortly before the lacrosse teamyet his season was not canceled and he was not fired.
Had he not a public word for coach Pressler?”
I’ve been saying for a long time that I lost all respect for Coach K as a result of this episode, and I had considerable respect for the man. As we know here, anyone halfway paying attention knew the real deal within 30-45 days. I would expect that he knew sooner, or could and should have.
Rather than do the right thing, he assisted in Duke’s throwing these kids under the bus by his silence. It was and is unacceptable.
Thanks. I knew it was something like that. Bless them.
The story that shouldn't have been dropped was also the coverup and scandal by Durham city officials, the Durham Chief of Police, the Durham County Sheriff's office, the Durham County District Attorney's ENTIRE STAFF, all the local newspapers and TV stations that allowed the coverups, the NC State Attorney General, and even the North Carolina Governor himself. This was a scandal of major proportions that got swept under the rugs of a rotten, filthy system of justice. This state is one of the most corrupt I have seen. There was even a situation where the Raleigh Police helped a Durham police officer out of a jam after a 4 am accident.
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