Wow, miss a couple days and miss a lot, holy cow
Anyway, after reading the articles and more importantly watching the Coach Kelly press conference I dont think Kelly knows "for sure" if he is coming back, I could be way off-base on this , but hear me out...
I recently went through some FBI investigation training for my job (conducting investigations, etc...) and a large part of it was conducting interviewing sessions and using that to help determine guilt/innocence.
If you go back and watch Coach Kelly's answer to when he was asked about Aaron Lynch, his voice tone immediately changed, he looked down and started to give his answer, as if he had to "fish for the answer". I am not saying at all that Coach was dishonest, but I dont think he knows whether or not he is coming back. If you notice the rest of the questions, his answers were smooth, and he had great eye contact with each reporter.
Here is that I think. I think Aaron had some lingering anger from the fight, missed his fiancee, and missed his mom, and "couldn't take it anymore". I think he asked coach for the time and told Coach I "may or may not be back".
Coach probably responded by saying something like, "go take some time with family, clear your head, and we will see you on Monday". This would make sense because Aaron didn't definitively tell Coach he was leaving the program.
My gut feeling is that Aaron will come back on Monday, refreshed , and ready to dominate this year. He would be foolish to transfer at this point.
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