CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a segment April 12, 2015 following up with former Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler, who was unfairly forced to resign in 2006.  He was a sacrificial lamb to assuage the mob, led by radical professors, screaming for the heads of the three lacrosse players accused of raping a black stripper.  As the world knows, the players were exonerated after proof was established that the charges had no basis in fact.  The players successfully sued Duke and were awarded a multi-million-dollar settlement.  Coach Pressler, who has since coached lacrosse for Bryant University, was also awarded a settlement – and additional compensation by successfully suing Duke for libel.

While 60 Minutes developed a rational view of the case in the latter stages of the lacrosse player news cycle, the network and its affiliates jumped early on the bandwagon of media outlets certain that the players were guilty of charges brought by a prostitute.

Although 60 Minutes deserves some credit for following up on the lacrosse coach in the aftermath of his inexcusable firing nine years ago, it was a disingenuous ploy to cloak the real story: how does Richard Brodhead remain as president of Duke?  He abandoned his own students to the politically correct class-warfare jackals in the faculty and the Durham community.  He tacitly supported the charges brought by delusional Durham district attorney Mike Nifong, designed to ruin the lacrosse players by innuendo.  He canceled the lacrosse season and fired the coach in an attempt to stain the game with class guilt by association.    

Imagine how you would react as a parent of a male Duke student deserted by the institution that accepted him, on the word of an unstable accuser, a dishonest district attorney, and a biased media.  Yet Brodhead, the real culprit in the case for allowing the accusations to stain the school and the lacrosse players, has sailed on unscathed.  Former lacrosse coach Mike Pressler's anguish does not exceed the guilt of Duke president Richard Brodhead.