re: Did DJ Durkin Kill a Kid at Maryland?

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jangalang
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So DJ Durkin really did kill a kid.

Nope. Completely cleared from all wrongdoing.

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You defend everything Auburn till it's clear that Auburn will end the association, then you, too, jump on the bad guy, only to defend the next p.o.s. that Auburn hires.

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Who is at fault for that? Where does the buck stop?

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With the medical staff.

The head coach is not a medical professional and thus isn’t in the chain of command for diagnosing heat stroke, which would be insane.

It doesn't take a doctor to know when you are over doing it on a hot day or when kids are struggling, y'all sound like LSU fans defending Kelly for letting his staff put a kid on a scaffold on a windy day

So there was obvious clues the kid was struggling....

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I have no clue what the medical team was doing when thekid started convulsing.

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LINK

The answer is not much. A lot of the issues were how much the medical response was delayed.

One of the craziest things is they didn’t put him in a cold tub because the training staff weren’t big enough to handle him.

So Durkin didn’t kill the young man, the petite athletic trainers may have though.

So here is what happens if something out of the ordinary happens to a player under his charge dies again due to practice, lawyers circle, Auburn gets destroyed in court and so does the SEC Office for allowing it....

Many people forget back in 1983 an AU player Greg Pratt, died under Dye's watch from a heat stroke doing drills. Back then it was not over blown. Heck they use to give players salt tablets if they passed out back in the '60's.

UPI ARCHIVES AUG. 23, 1983
An autopsy report shows Auburn University fullback Greg Pratt...
By JEFF WOODARD

AUBURN, Ala. -- An autopsy report shows Auburn University fullback Greg Pratt died of heat stroke, but officials say the conditioning drills he ran before he collapsed were 'coincidental' to his death.

Pratt, 20, of Albany, Ga., needed the aid of a teammate to finish the last of four 440-yard timed sprints in 96 degree heat Saturday. He later collapsed in the Tiger dressing room and was taken to the East Alabama Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:35 p.m.

'I am ruling the cause of death was found to be a heat stroke. The manner of death is accidental,' said Lee County Coroner Jon Williams. He said the relationship between the sprints and the death was 'coincidental.

'In my personal and professional opinion, this kind of accident could have occurred at any time strenuous activity was involved, even cutting grass. What happened on the Auburn practice field Saturday morning could have happened anywhere,' he said.

Early reports indicated Pratt died of a heart attack, but Williams said an autopsy by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences confirmed the cardiac arrest resulted from heat stroke.

1983 was a far different place than the 2020s....

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Many people forget back in 1983 an AU player Greg Pratt, died under Dye's watch from a heat stroke doing drills. Back then it was not over blown. Heck they use to give players salt tablets if they passed out back in the '60's.

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Every school in the conference likely had at least one player die from 1980-2010.

Fortunately, we figured out how to completely prevent that from happening and only a handful of select shitheads have let it happen since.

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Fortunately, we figured out how to completely prevent that from happening and only a handful of select shitheads have let it happen since.

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Kid was doing a current universal conditioning test.