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Well, I guess this "pansy" approach from UD is part and parcel to the reason why Merchant is no longer there. Yes, Scott left on his own terms, but he obviously saw the writing on the wall. The coming years will only cement the incredible job he did there and I hope they realize the incalcuable loss when he left. Although there were some in his corner, many over there just could not handle the intensity he brought to the football program, both during and off season. UD prides itself on it's academic standards, and rightly so, but there is a way to maintain those standards and still excell on the football field. Merchant brought that program back to prominence and although there were 5-4 & 4-5 years sprinkled in there, I have to believe that Cubs, past and present, will soon be longing for those years. Scott is intense and often wears his heart on his sleeve and that sometimes drove away some kids and parents that I would consider the weak of heart and mind, but the UD admin and the AD would have been better served to wave goodbye to those weak minded individuals and adopt some of the Mechant intensity and did all they could to keep him there. It appears to me that if the present mind set continues, UD football will be relegated to the same pre Merchant obscurity. What a shame for a school of 700 boys, who with the move of CC to Novi, was and is in it's best position to attract the kids of Livonia and Redford and Westland and Detroit who would have otherwise gone to a Redford CC.