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Adelphi University Men's Lacrosse Team Came Out To A Trump Speech #MAGA
A top seeded college lacrosse team has sparked outrage after they chose
to enter the field to a Trump speech. - Deplorable News
The Adelphi University men's lacrosse team, in Long Island, had been
given the option to pick their own entrance music to Tuesday's game.
But rather than a typical fight track, the team made the controversial
decision to enter to a speech by President Trump, set to music.
A school spokesman said the speech does not violate school policy.The
men's lacrosse team are allowed to chose their own season pregame
warm-up music as long as it does not contain 'vulgarity or
inappropriate subject matter,' Newsday reports.
'The songs they proposed and used this season meet those guidelines. As
such, we are obliged to follow the policy,' Adelphi athletic director
Danny McCabe said.
'Finally
a college that respects the president and our country,' wrote Joanne
Czaikowski Archer, while Jarred Buck added: 'Awesomeness! That team had
guts and guts is lacking with that generation.'
Team coach Gordon Purdie apologized to anyone who had been offended by
the choice of track, saying 'it was not intended to provoke or be taken
as a political statement.' He added that the team 'traditionally has
chosen patriotic music' to accompany their entrance to the field.
However, many people online have questioned a sports team would use a
political speech at all - let alone by someone as divisive as Donald
Trump - after footage of the team's entrance was tweeted on Wednesday.
Ashley Worthey, an alumni who works at the university, said the team's
decision had left her 'confused.' She said that while the private
college was generally 'a good campus', that there was an issue with
'acceptance' from 'certain people on the campus.'
'I'm sorry. I don't get what lacrosse has to do with his stupid
speeches,' Marylynn Torrëy wrote on Facebook. ' So stupid. Bunch of
rich entitled kids at that school.' *snort*
'Shame
on you Adelphi, following an admitted sexual predator, liar bigot and
world class narcissist,' Arthur Coccaro wrote. 'Martin Luther King's
dream speech, maybe, but I just hope some of the players on the team
are not ok with this stupidity.'
Another Facebook user joked that perhaps Adelphi had chosen the speech
as a tactic 'to make the team sick and vomit listening to his c**p?'But
others defended the team's right to free speech.
'
Trump makes me sick but this is what
freedom of speech is all about. Even if you don't agree with
what someone says, they are well within their rights to say it,' Janet
Oviedo-Torres wrote.
Gene Staudte added:
'Awesome!!!
If that what pumps them up and gets them ready, good for them! They
have every right to do that, it's called Freedom of Speech!!!!'
Others applauded them for supporting the president.
'Finally a college that respects the president and our country,' wrote
Joanne Czaikowski Archer, while Jarred Buck added: 'Awesomeness! That
team had guts and guts is lacking with that generation.'
Adelphi, which plays in
Division II, is the top seed in the NCAA Tournament, which begins
Saturday against Pace.
