I am not a college football fan, but this reeks of BS. I read the story, and it sounds like they screwed up and didn’t put the guy in an ice bath and he died.
It is a hard sport. They train them hard and probably panicked and made a mistake when the kid seized. It happens to non-professionals and even occasionally to some professionals.
So someone has to pay.
Sorry the young guy died. But people die, it happens. I don’t watch the news, but my wife had it on when we were doing the trick or treat thing with the neighborhood kids so I couldn’t help seeing it.
And it reeked of moral outrage.
Now the University is on the hook for the report that essentially exonerated Durkin and recommended he keep his job. Durkin can sue the university for wrongful termination and the university will have to try to disavow its own report. They have no prayer in front of a jury when the university’s only defense is “we were so corrupt we created a false report.” See how that works out for you, University of Maryland.
It should be standard operating procedure to have ice bath available at every football facility especially if it’s over 80 degrees outside.