Sam Anderson leaving Coogs
Michael Murphy's regular Chron UH Notebook this week contained this cryptic bit of news:
Heading out is Sam Anderson, the 6-5 forward whose hustle and toughness will be missed. Anderson, a former football player at Eastern Michigan and Navy veteran, is leaving the team for personal reasons, including a chance to pursue an oppor-tunity in the business sector.
That cryptic message led to a few hostile posts on fan message boards, until Michael Murphy weighed in on those boards with the following clarification:
Sam's getting married, and being an economics major -- who is not on scholarship, by the way -- he recognized that he is being given a nice opportunity (working in a family member's business at a mid-level management position).
He didn't "quit" in mid-season -- he actually was going to leave earlier, but stuck it out until Dion became eligible (all of which was in the notebook until space considerations forced it to be cut) because he didn't want to leave the team short-handed.
That seems like an important bit of information to have been cut from the article. It was useful of Murphy to post it on the message board, although it would have been more useful in the story (since more people would have seen it).
In any case, best of luck to Sam Anderson, a hard working guy who gave last year's team quite a spark (and everything he had, usually against much bigger opponents).
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 12/08/06 04:21 PM | Print | Comments (2)
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