Today, as I was browsing through the web, Iwas surprised to see an article on our Terps headlining the Washington Post website. The title reads, "Are Terps leaning too much on Stoglin?" I clicked the link: thought it would be interesting to read since we don't see much of our Terps in the Post. After the site was finished loading the very top of the page states, "Maryland basketball relying heavily on Terrell Stoglin for scoring."
The article discusses how Stoglin is the top scorer on the entire Men's basketball team. His statistics show that he is #1 in the ACC for scorers and #3 in the nation, so what's the problem? Matt Bonesteel emphasizes how he believes Terrell maybe a crutch for our team because it seems as though coach ____ uses him entirely too much in games. Isn't that what competition is about, using your best player(s) to score as many points as possible over the opposing team? If there is something wrong with that, then maybe they should change the definition of sports completely. So this must be a race thing: getting the black kid off the court and letting the white man play a half. Who knows, it just seems rather sketchy to me that this journalist, Mr. Bonesteel, wants our precious amenity Terrell off the floor. Who else did you have in mind Matt? He said it himself, he "lead the Terrapins in scoring for the 12th time in 17 games this season." Terrell Stoglin is a hardworking young man, that clearly shows in his performance on the basketball court, so there is no real need for anyone to take his spot. I think he should stay where he is, his work is clearly doing our Men's team some justice.
It seems to be that all Bonesteel had were complaints and/or problems; he did not have any sort of solutions. The suggestions he gave seems rather open-ended. He gave names like Sean mosley, Pe'shon Howard, and Nick Faust but quickly shut them down with negative reasoning (not to mention each of these men are African American). At the end of the article Bonesteel says, "Thoughts?" Yeah, I have a few thoughts: you're an uninformed outsider that doesn't know the first thing about Terrell Stoglin, but I guess since you know the stats you must be hip.
I agree completely with Amina. Nobody has the right to talk about a player that is playing well and try to take his success from him or her. Division 1 sports are considered the highest level of athletics in colleges and universities all over the country. Shouldn't the best players play as much as they can when competing against other schools? People need to realize that if an athlete is having a great year you should not try to take that away from him or her you have to accept that it's happening no matter what the race is of the athlete. In this case Terrell is performing extremely well this year. Why try to take that away from him?
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