Hiring Adazzio was about keeping guys in New England from leaving to other P5 conferences (schools like UVA, Northwestern, Michigan have come to Massachusetts specifically and pulled guys), not uconn.
BCs recruiting against uconn played no part in the hire and would be foolishly short sighted as uconn couldn't even out-recruit Spaziani in the northeast area once the program had bottomed.
Maybe Addazio can help Brown as much as he helped Aaron Hernandez.
Aaron Hernandez had a very good college career.
Well, if you believe that BC is inherently evil and does not care about its student athletes health and welfare, it could easily be understood from that perspective it would seem to me. On the other hand, it is equally plausable that none of us has sufficient information on the medical condition to effectively evaluate the apparent difference of opinion from the medical community as they evaluate this athlete, and as he, his parents, and the school make their decision as to whether or not he is sufficienly fit enough to play football again..
Palatine said:Addazio took Hernandez away from his brother and mother and put him into a culture at Florida where he went badly off the rails.
Oh, you mean football, you probably didn't notice the man Aaron Hernadez turned into.
Addazio took Hernandez away from his brother and mother and put him into a culture at Florida where he went badly off the rails.
Oh, you mean football, you probably didn't notice the man Aaron Hernadez turned into.
Well no one is forcing the kid to play. I wouldn't let him if he was my kid, but his father clearly has background on the situation and they are deciding to play.
I just hope he doesn't get hurt. Other than that, I really don't care if he's going to BC.
To answer your malpractice/CYA question look no further than Jimmy Bennett. They rebuilt his knees a few times, and he came back on to the field each time...only to fail a physical with the Bengals. In regards to the head/neck/spinal cord injury stance..like you said...they aren't treated lightly and while they may be in a CYA mode..it does put the athlete first. At the end of the day it has been shown especially at the NFL level that players are a disposable item.Agreed.
The only issue I can come up with here with regards to UCONN moving forward, is a complete internal evaluation to make sure our medical staff is not operating too much under the malpractice CYA mode, rather than just operating under maintaining the best interests of the student-athletic patients they evaluate and treat.
Given the track record of things, thinking of guys like Osiecki, and Kevin Friend, and going back to Lutrus - it seems that head, neck, nerve spinal cord type conditions are not going to be treated lightly, and they should not be.
To answer your malpractice/CYA question look no further than Jimmy Bennett. They rebuilt his knees a few times, and he came back on to the field each time...only to fail a physical with the Bengals. In regards to the head/neck/spinal cord injury stance..like you said...they aren't treated lightly and while they may be in a CYA mode..it does put the athlete first. At the end of the day it has been shown especially at the NFL level that players are a disposable item.
I agree. I didn't mean to suggest that I do think we are doing anything hyper-reactive CYA at UCONN. All I can see, is that if a player is willing to put a helmet on elsewhere to play, when they've been told they shouldn't here - probably a good idea to self-evaluate what's going on - reaffirm the decision.
Bennett is a good example, I'm sure there are others. Pretty sure that Taylor Mack was held out with neck/shoulder/stinger stuff last season for a number of games.
Head, neck, spinal cord - I'm perfectly fine with less leeway than a surgically repaired knee. But I'm just a fan.....nevermind.
Interesting situation.
It seems UCONN took a medical pass on the player and Boston College has not. If publicly available info and the young man's own words in media are to be trusted.
I hope the young man has been advised well enough to get at least one, if not multiple, independant medical opinions before he puts a helmet on and goes full speed contact again.
Addazio took Hernandez away from his brother and mother and put him into a culture at Florida where he went badly off the rails.
Oh, you mean football, you probably didn't notice the man Aaron Hernadez turned into.
I don't know if this story could have turned out any different if Randy Edsall and DJ were in Aaron's life during these crucial years. Addazio though made him far more of an entitled "STAR" and that wasn't what Edsall's program was about. I firmly believe UConn COULD have been the path to a different Aaron Hernandez.