Joe Schad reporting.....
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Hawkeye101
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There's an "ambulance chaser" in every crowd.
GravyJones
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Who didn't see that coming?
HawkinGoferLand
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the only surprise would be if the ambulance chasers didn't contact players, parents, and guardians.
Cyclones17
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Yep and it's disgusting if you ask me. If the parents contact someone, fine. But I hate it when people go out there trying to stir crap like this up
tweeterhawk
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Blood's in the water (so to speak). The sharks are circling.
Hawke
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hawkfarmer
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And to think ND couldn't get sued when they killed a kid, by placing him in the lift.
DexterMorgan
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Is this honestly something worth "reporting"
JonDMiller
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Schad Tweet
"Iowa AD and HC were asked if squat/sled drill had long been threatened"
Not sure how a drill can be threatened when its something that has been in practice in a program for years and years
"Iowa AD and HC were asked if squat/sled drill had long been threatened"
Not sure how a drill can be threatened when its something that has been in practice in a program for years and years
ripvdub
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This is may be a good and bad analogy, but a guy can threaten to hit his wife even though he's been beating her for years, trying to scare them into "straightening up".
I remember in high school sports that my coaches knew damn well there were certain exercises we didn't like to perform for conditioning, and made us do them if we werent living up to expectations in one way or another.
tweeterhawk
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It would not surprise me that there is one parent, perhaps two, that in addition to being upset about what happened to their son(s) has taken it a step further to leaking info about supposedly closed meetings and other information about the hospitalized players to the national media and putting it in the most critical light.
Some of the info that has been "leaked" to Schad, Doyel & Co. seems to cast the workouts and the meetings with Ferentz in the most negative light, when the only parent to be publicly identified has both expressed concern for the welfare of his son but also applauded Kirk and the staff for being accessible and being concerned.
I'm sure the coward or cowards -- and that's what they are -- will not come forward. But we will have a pretty good idea of who they are by any transfers that are announced this spring and any lawsuits that are filed.
While I agree that anonymously leaking details about closed meetings, or hospital going-ons (all in a negative light) isn't the best way of dealing with things, I wouldn't call them cowards just because they're challenging the program after their relative was put in the hospital due to team related activities. Obviously, if this workout's been done for the past 12 years without seemingly any major problems, and then suddenly, you have 13 players in the hospital for exertional rhabdomyolysis, it's going to raise a few eyebrows. Especially after an 8-5 season where the team collapsed late in games.
Anyway, as with anything to do with this whole situation, it's best to wait until all the facts are out.
The fact is this does not look like a big money damages case. All of these guys are expected to recover with no permanent kidney damage. Even if that does not end up being the case, you would not file for close to two years in order to assess the full extent of the injury. I don't doubt that one more lawyers is rounding them up, but no one can know if they have any real case here until this all plays out. On top of that, the suit will have to be filed in Iowa City which is not the most hospitable venue for taking on the football program and university.
iloveyoularrystation
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At what point did we as a nation become this wuss-i-fied? I'm being serious, was it when the court ruled that dude at McDonalds or wherever that spilled their hot coffee all over themselves should get a bagillion dollars? It's d1 football people, its a workout seriously. Obviously they got pushed a little too far for their capacity on a given day in January 2011, that's the goal of the drill. Obviously the intent is not to put em in the hospital and have some kidney difficulties, but all the guys are fine and seriously it sounds like none of em were ever in danger. You read the sports columnists both state and national and you'd think we had the entire team close to death. The re-donk-u-lous overblowing of this situation is amazing to me. So where I work I have the unenviable position of working with a lot of former iowa state cyclone players, some of whom went on to the nfl, some were all conference big 12 athletes and some of them were just (not meant as a slight) starters for a year or two (huge accomplishment not knocking it). I was talking to one of them friday about this situation and he said though the workout in question sounds "ridiculous" (his words), that they at Iowa State had workouts that would beat them up severely. I asked him flat out, did you have any that put you in bed, unable to move hardly at all for like a whole weekend. He said, "Yes. Sure. A couple times a year." He went on to explain how they would have and he knows Iowa has workouts designed to speed up the process by which you can build muscle, and that starts by shocking your muscular and nervous system which his what this workout was designed to do. ESPN and others have completely overblown this because they have alot of financial reasons to enjoy any big name big ten team losing clout throughout the country. They financially benefit from trashing us, plain and simple. If this was at an SEC school it wouldn't even be reported, just like they don't talk about all the over-recruiting at all the SEC schools, just like Cam Newton is the greatest QB in the history of the world, and a model athlete for how he handled everything this year. Give me a break ESPN, and give me a break everybody that's piling on.
