One teeny tiny point you missed in your analysis was that the player had a diagnosed concussion.
One teeny tiny point about that so called diagnosed concussion......
All you need is a headache to receive that initial diagnoses. It is really a suspected concussion. My read of this is that that in the coaches opinion, the kid did not receive a hit that would have caused a head injury. The coach likely connected the complaint to the other issues that he was having with the ESPN daddy's complaints and did not want to look at the kid standing around.
These days, any complaint of a headache, no matter how minor is taken as a suspected concussion. All players know this and they sometimes use it to get out of practice.
A real concussion cannot be diagnosed without a cat scan that may or may not show bruising of the brain. If there was a bleed, that would change the diagnoses from a concussion to a hemorrhage caused by a concussion. So you see, this concussion business is a total red herring. The kid was put in a dark room which is the correct treatment. He should not have been standing on the field. The team doctor or some doctor, likely a private one has been engaged to cause a load of PC crap to be shoveled at the coach and it worked.
The coach, when all is said and done in court, will own a nice piece of the endowment fund at the conclusion of this farce.