Leach put him in a dark room because he didn’t respect the fact that James had a concussion. I assume that is why James had on dark glasses. The fact is that Leach told trainers to find a dark, isolated place and stick Adam in it.
Per the DMN (Kevin Sherrington):
The message was clear: Leach didn’t like the diagnosis and/or James.
He also sent a message, perhaps inadvertently, to the rest of his players. Concussions may be the most underreported injuries in athletics, which makes them all the more dangerous. When a coach in effect tells his players this is how he deals with head injuries, it hardly encourages them to say they might have a problem.
James sure did Cry Wolf a lot, and that may explain Leach's skepticism that, this time, the wolf had really come.
Guess what doctors say to do if a player has a concussion? A dark quite place with supervision.... and a doctor later said nothing detrimental was done - in fact, dark, quite is called for. How was that abusive?
Wow do you have your facts completely out of whack regarding concussions and the facts of this story.
You are no better than the trash at ESPN.
James said he had a mild concussion and was sensitive to bright sunlight. So Leach asked him to go into a large, cool shed where he would not be exposed to bright sunlight. What's wrong with that?
Leach did nothing wrong.