LAX.COM FEATURE: Catching Up With Mike Pressler
March 3, 2008
PRESSLER FEATURED ON LAX.COM
by Zach Babo, Lax.ccom
The captain is supposed to go down with the ship. That was the case in Durham, N.C. during the spring of 2006. In the wake of the ‘Duke Lacrosse Scandal,' head coach Mike Pressler was dismissed as the coach of a Duke program he built from a barely competitive team to a national powerhouse. As the lies began to melt away, and as the witch-hunt gave way to vindication, the circumstances still remained: a group of players lost their season and good name, and a coach lost his job.
Luckily, in the summer of 2006, Pressler was welcomed into the
ranks of Bryant University. In his first year with the program, and
his first year coaching DII, Pressler lead the Bulldogs to an 11-3
record and an NE-10 conference championship. As Bryant enters their
last year of DII play, they will switch to a DI schedule next
spring, Pressler has his work cut out for him. We were able to
steal an hour of his day and talk about what's new in Smithfield,
R.I., what it's like coaching in DII, and what it means to move on
from Duke....
