Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4723271-20140716053249/@comment-13965604-20141230141735

Bennett89 wrote: Maybe because Melissa and the Sheriff are parents of minors so they would have to explain that

That's all well and good, but Jackson, who has already been explained away once already, got a mention, Isaac got a mention. Hell, even Greenburg got a mention from Coach about his absence. Technically, there is no reason Danny couldn't have been in this season at all, except for contract issues and/or prior obligations, but there isn't a single reason whatsoever they couldn't have added a line to Coach's rant about players being gone that would've explained Danny's absence. And then this whole argument would be a moot point. But however you dice it, Danny is certainly more important than Greenburg, who got a mention. He's more important than a random kid in the hall way that we see talking to another character but never meet.