re: Brian Kelly hasn't aged at all over the last few years.

Big difference. No one died in those activities.

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Big difference. No one died in those activities.

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The decisions by the head coaches weren't really any different, which is what is being discussed here.

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you shouldn't have wasted that money on a yankee

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Real funny coming from someone whose team wasted money on napier

Also, I never claimed when the next time LSU would beat bama. So not too sure where you pulled that one from, your arse maybe?

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You say this as if football practices during wind or heat advisories don't happen all the time.

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Yes. But you don't have to put a kid in an elevated lift to film practice during a wind advisory.

Teams certainly don't do that anymore. Not sure how often it would happen before the kid died under Kelly's watch.

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It's interesting that no one ever blames him, the athletic director, or president of the university.

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Not surprising at all just like how this board likes to pretend LSU stole money from sick kids.

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It's interesting that no one ever blames him, the athletic director, or president of the university.

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Oh, there's enough blame for everyone involved.

What's kind of funny (or sad really) is that when Notre Dame was found to be at fault for the death by OSHA, they did the blame shifting game. Nobody was identified as being the one who made the decision to use the lifts. They pointed at the ND coaches as being the ones who decided "against the athletic department recommendations" to have practice.

The coaches said that they decided to have practice but the decision to use the lifts was someone else's call.

So effectively the university got a small fine and nobody was responsible for the kid dying due to the blame shifting game. The AD blamed the coaches. The coaches blamed the AD. Nobody got in trouble.

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The school noted that three people were most involved in advising coach Brian Kelly on whether it was safe to practice outside: director of football operations Chad Klunder, then-head athletic trainer Jim Russ and Tim Collins, director of football video and film.
"Ultimately, no one — not Collins, Klunder, nor Russ — told Kelly or any coach that practice should be held indoors or that the lifts should not be used," the report says.

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The report did say that while Collins was concerned about the wind, "he did not believe that the winds were strong enough to warrant grounding the lifts."

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Sullivan’s supervisor, video system technician Tim Collins, said he believed it was safe to use the lifts because weather.com and the weather service had the wind speeds in the mid-20s with gusts from 29 to 31 mph.

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Collins did, however, order that the lifts be only partially extended, records show. He also decided not to let a novice student videographer go up in the lift because he thought she might become scared, though she eventually was sent up.

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“When I walked into the office, I was informed by Tim Collins that we would be practicing outside, contrary to his judgment,” Frank told the investigator. “When we were outside, I was instructed by Tim to only raise my lift halfway up.”

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Sullivan raised his lift to about 39 feet, just short of its full extension, records show. The OSHA investigation found the student videographers had minimal training on the equipment.

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He's not smart enough to figure it out on his own?

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I can tell you've never held any type of management role.