Navy won't allow an ultimate team, but CROQUET?   Sure, why not!

From yesterday's WaPo:

They're practicing -- with an actual [presumably paid] coach -- and fielding players who have more than a few weeks' experience.

Six years ago, the academy brought in Anne Morris, a tournament-level croquet master from Easton, Md., who had coached a team at Smith College. She got the mids proper equipment, replacing their handmade mallets, which tended to splinter in tournament play, with $120 professional models.

So they're paying for a croquet coach and croquet equipment, yet they previously decided Ultimate Frisbee (i.e. sprinting like crazy for extended periods of time) was not a worthy of existing as a sport in Annapolis.

On the one hand, I'm still a little happy to see the team shutdown since Navy was a bunch of pricks back in the mid 90s. But on the other, I hate to see the sport demoted to sub-croquet status on any totem pole.

Below croquet?? What a pantload.