I find myself torn. I try to put myself into the running shoes of the individual in question. The coaches at Iowa State went through the team with a buzz saw after last year and forced a number of the existing athletes out while picking a number of foreign athletes off of the proverbial menu.
If I were an American teenager on scholarship and the coach basically established the principle of produce or be replaced by an older foreign athlete, how would I react? When I found myself in that position, the answer was no (of course, I would not have had the money or knowledge of where to begin and the foreigners I was competing against weren’t pros). I simply transferred to a cheaper school. It is a new dynamic. I won’t judge this kid too harshly.