thanks LL.
obviously the kid feels lied to. do we know any details?
i'll bash the kid for saying shit publicly way after the fact, but won't bash him if we promised him something and changed our tune.
Yeah what's the context here?
The football staff at ND told him he could run track, and cited Troy Pride as an example of someone currently doing so. Apparently they did make it clear that as a player on football scholarship, football duties would still need to be met when he didn't have track-specific activities.
Fast-forward to his flip to Oregon, his father said in a very well-reasoned explanation that Oregon was offering him the chance to put his full attention on track when it wasn't football season. The context clues seem to show that ND wanted him to honor spring football commitments if he wasn't at specific track events, whereas Oregon wouldn't make him participate in Spring football if he wanted to focus solely on track.
Fast-forward again to the week before ND plays Miami, and a reporter goads Lenzy into making comments about how he was "lied to" by the ND coaching staff about the level of commitment he would be able to give to track in South Bend. He said he was "lied to by honorable men," even though there would literally be no reason for the coaching staff to lie about the situation, considering Troy Pride is right there doing both as an example. Things should have been perfectly clear to Braden, and his father's initial explanation seemed to show that they did understand, and just thought the situation at Oregon would be better.
So either Lenzy's father was trying to be the bigger man when he offered his initial explanation and was actually just declining to blast the ND staff for some shady *promises* they made that they didn't intend to keep, or else Braden himself was goaded into giving clickbait quotes by a reporter that convinced him that he was lied to by the ND staff even though he really wasn't and knew the situation, at which point Lenzy embraced that angle and talked some unnecessary shit.
Fast-forward to now, and the new "honorable men" that Lenzy has pledged himself to are already recruiting for Florida State LOL, potentially re-opening the door for ND to clear the air.
