In discussing his reasoning for drastically restricting the media access to his team, Chris Ash pointed to training camp as "that special time where we really need to be focused on each other.'' He added: "Through those 29 practices, you're really putting in half your season's worth of work and I wanted to try to eliminate as many distractions as possible during that time.'' It was only last summer that five Scarlet Knights, including one of the quarterbacks (Chris Laviano) currently competing for the starting job, were suspended for the first half of the opener after breaking curfew by entering a New Brunswick bar.
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