Teammates indifferent toward Printers’ sudden departure
Nathan Loewen
Assistant Sports Editor

Football is a team sport. When the leader of a team quits to go elsewhere it affects every player, said sophomore tight-end Stanley Moss.

Casey Printers asked to be released from his scholarship requirements, which TCU granted on January 4.

“I don’t think he made a wise decision,” said junior wide receiver LaTarence Dunbar.

“Printers had all of the receivers returning. He just needs to throw the ball to us and not the other team.”

Dunbar said it came not only as a surprise to him but to the rest of the team as well.

Junior wide receiver Adrian Madise said he feels Printers did what he needed to do.

“Printers did what he thought was best for him,” Madise said. “I have no bad blood toward him.”

Madise said he doesn’t know if Printers would have stayed his senior year if the Frogs had a better season than they did. Madise said he feels Printers had a problem with TCU’s offensive scheme, which does not pass the ball as much as other schools.

“Printers wants to be a more prolific passer and repetition is the only way to get better,” said Madise. “He wants to go somewhere where he can do that.”

Dunbar said when you get to your senior season it is hard for it not to be about you.

“It is about yourself to see if you can go on to the next level,” Dunbar said. “Printers thought he would be better off elsewhere.”

Madise said Printers did what anyone would have done.

“He set goals and he is doing whatever (is) necessary to achieve those goals,” Madise said.

Madise said that TCU is losing a good player.

“Anytime you lose a Casey Printers, you lose a good player,” Madise said.

Dunbar said the team lost more than their starting quarterback.

“When you have your leader quit and someone else step in, you lose team chemistry,” he said.

Moss said that Printers was a large part of the offense.

Moss said he feels that the team will come closer together.

Though they lost Printers, Dunbar said the Frogs are in the same position as if he blew his knee out in spring practice.

Both Dunbar and Madise said they do not know if TCU will have a better season next year.

Dunbar said it will be hard to tell until practice resumes.

Nathan Loewen
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