The situation at Grambling State is beyond despicable and disheartening.

Newly appointed volleyball coach Chelsey Lucas cut Grambling’s entire volleyball roster. All 19 players have been released from the team, and their tuition and
room and board will no longer be supported by the university. Now, those athletes
have to figure out how they are going to pay for school, or if they can even
continue to attend school

The coach, nor the athletic director gave a press conference in regards to
releasing of players. They simply released a statement stating that the players
didn’t meet the necessary performance standards during the 3 tryout sessions.
Yes, the entire team of scholarship players had to RE-TRYOUT.

I have no idea who Chelsey Lucas is, but after seeing several pictures of her,
it’s hard not to imagine her personality being a CERTAIN WAY.

Technically, her actions are legal and within the rules of the NCAA. But this doesn’t
happen if the transfer portal rule didn’t allow students athletes a one-time opportunity
to instantly transfer to another university. Apparently, there are several players who
will be transferring into Grambling’s volleyball program.

Of course there was pushback from the community, and they want the coach to be removed and the players’ scholarships to be reinstated. So the university has hired
an independent service to investigate the matter, which is a bad look for the
university, because they were originally okay with the actions of the coach.


Other then teams being banned or players being expelled for disciplinary reasons,
I can’t recall a university cutting an entire roster of players because the coach felt
the players were subpar.



This is insane.

https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/sports/college/gsu/2022/05/09/grambling-announces-independent-review-volleyball-program-after-players-cut/9699253002/