3finger - the coach was found not guilty of any wrong doing by a jury.
http://www.courier-journal.com...n-PRP-player-s-death
Plus it's believed that what caused Max Gilpin's death was a combonation of ADHD medicine, creatine use and his already being sick. Plus during the trial several of his friends said under oath that they didn't think the practice was too severe.
http://www.courier-journal.com...%9Caccident%E2%80%9D
In the trial one of the prosecutions witnesses said that heat stroke was 100% preventable and should have dumped him in an ice bath. But the defense called two witnesses that went completely opposite of what the other guy testified too. They said that heat stroke is not prevetable and that tepid water should be run over the body with ice bags and fanning. Immersion in ice water would cause other problems.
The prosecution witness was director of athletic training at UCONN.
The defense witnesses were former KY state medical examiner and chairman of the University of Louisville department of emergency medicine.
Really all three are very credible witnesses and if one of them told me something I would take it as gospel but they are on opposite sides of the extreme in what happened. The jury listened to the defense.
Sometimes the moon and stars align for something great to happen but sadly they sometimes align for bad things to happen.
I forgot about the opening post and the coach saying he was going to run until someone quit. There is no excuse for that and goes against what coaching is about.
That's really a disappointing response. The jury's verdict is truly irrelevant. Whether the subsequent treatment was appropriate or not is irrelevant. Even the exact cause of that particular player's inability to withstand the gassers doesn't really matter. Nor does it matter that other players were able to do the gassers without harm.
What matters is that Max Gilpin couldn't do them that day without collapsing.
What matters is his expectation of being dismissed from the team if he didn't keep doing the gassers. Without that fear and expectation, he would have stopped sooner.
"Until somebody quits" isn't isn't just "against what coaching is about".
It's dangerous.
What matters is that Max Gilpin couldn't do them that day without collapsing.
What matters is his expectation of being dismissed from the team if he didn't keep doing the gassers. Without that fear and expectation, he would have stopped sooner.
"Until somebody quits" isn't isn't just "against what coaching is about".
It's dangerous.
Well I don't agree with the "until somebody quits" tactic either. I guess you will have to be disappointed with my response.
In our judicial system, morons are allowed to sit on juries so it's not that hard to get educated witnesses to twist the truth and fool morons sitting in a juror seat. 94 degrees and a lunkhead football coach running gassers until somebody quits while players are puking. This coach was wrong and lucky to have idiots on a jury.