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Dude was really good at K-State. And, unlike others that went into the portal to play for a lower-level team (and thereby increase their playing time), he went from being a guaranteed starter at K-State to being QB1 at tOSU.

Say what you want about his abilities, but the guy has leadership qualities that are hard to find and isn't afraid to challenge himself at the highest level.

If his skills can be improved with coaching and experience, he has intangibles that make him a really good target in the 2nd or 3rd. Could end up being the next Brock Purdy-type of QB for a team that takes a flyer on him.

QUESTION FOR THE ATTORNIES OUT THERE...

Is there any way for LSU to offer to take care of Greg's medical bills while also cutting their lawyer out of any monetary settlement?

On principle, I could see where LSU might be willing to help out the Brooks family as long as the attorney doesn't get a dime in the process. The other option would be "see ya in court".

I don't know if it's possible, but I'd be all for a monetary "contribution" by LSU towards his medical bills, but only if those payments go directly to medical providers, fees and procedures - NOT to a lawyer.

What's the possibility? Limited? Maybe possible? I'm not a lawyer, so don't yell at me for asking the question.....

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As best I can tell Brooks was in bad shape. He had numerous strokes during surgery. Was he lucid when he left BR? Was he able to converse with visitors? I don’t know, but it appears there are lot of facts not in evidence that the public doesn’t know.

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Add in the fact that it's possible the doctors and the care team forbade anyone but immediate family from being around Greg.

Brain illnesses are tricksy beasts. And one thing I can say from experience is that conscious, waking time for brain injury/illness patients is exhausting. Again, I'm not a doc, but I could easily see a situation where Greg's docs limited the total time of interaction with the patient for his own medical well-being. If that's the case, I doubt the family would have sacrificed their own limited time with Greg to give BK time with him.


And, just so we're clear - that's an OPINION, not a stated fact. But it's one I believe to be plausible. We'll likely only find out for certain if it goes to trial. If not, we'll never know because one or the other side (or maybe both) will demand a gag order as part of any settlement.

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i doubt there will be a quick settlement. Brooks' lawyers are probably having a life care plan prepared that will be somewhere in the $30 million dollar range if I had to guess, in addition to the medical expenses he has already incurred.

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And let's not forget the lawyer's cut of whatever those "lifecare expenses" involve.

What's the going rate for ambulance chasers these days? Last I heard it was somewhere between 40-60%, depending on the lawyer, the case, and the potential settlement.

LSU may end up standing their ground on this because of the precedent it could set. Football is the modern gladiatorial blood sport, and it's participants are highly likely to become injured while participating in said sport. If a case can be made that the allegations of the Brooks family are untrue, then it might be in LSU's best interest to fight them to prevent future spurious lawsuits that are simply cash-grabs.

IANAL, so just my opinion.

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You just called me ignorant then proved my point, OLOL still contracted the surgery.

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I'll call you ignorant, but not in a pejorative way. You simply don't understand how modern medicine is practiced in the US.

It's rare these days for medical institutions (hospitals, teaching facilities, etc) to have full-time docs as employees. In most cases, a facility will decide what type of care they want to provide, what resources are needed to provide that care, and THEN they decide how best to acquire those resources.

For specialty fields, most of the docs belong to consulting medical groups that contract out services to these facilities. Have you had surgery lately? If so, did every single charge you (or your insurance)_pay for come from the hospital? Probably not. You probably got bills from a bunch of individual companies that participated in your care.

Sometimes, those relationships are obvious (like getting a bill from a separate anesthesia group for services provided during your care). Sometimes they're less obvious, like when a doc on contract to the hospital is acting as a representative of the hospital during your care (as was the case, I believe, with Greg Brooks).

Is it a perfect system? No, it sucks. And it drives up the cost of care immensely. But just because the system sucks doesn't mean that the care you receive from the system ALSO sucks.

So, yes, your ignorance is showing. I'm not trying to berate you for it, but at least admit that you don't really understand how these things work, and that you're assuming the hospital did something shady and is now at fault for providing substandard care.

The level of care provided is definitely a consideration in the lawsuit. But the fact that the surgeon was on contract to the hospital plays no part in whether or not the level of care was adequate. That's on the doc, and on the hospital if they knowingly retained a doc that wasn't qualified to do the work.

Which will all come out in the trial. Oh wait, what if there ISN'T a trial and someone (wink) is simply trying to insinuate as much demeaning crap as possible to force a settlement.

Ugh. It shouldn't have to be this way, but it is.

Peace, my friend.

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If you go to the ER with these symptoms, the first thing they do is a CT scan of your brain. If it’s true he went misdiagnosed for around 40 days, swing and a miss by the medical staff. Not a good look.

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Are you a doctor? Not trying to pick a fight, but are you expressing an opinion or fact?

My dad was an ER/Trauma surgeon for decades, and I spent many many evenings keeping him company in the ER. I'm not a doc, but even with that perspective I'm not convinced that he would have sent someone coming in complaining of vertigo immediately for a CT - especially in today's era of insurance cost controls.

My opinion - based on indirect experience with my Dad - is that Greg would have had an equal chance of being sent home with a referral to a neurologist as he would have had of getting an immediate CT - depending on his symptoms and how they were perceived at the time. The fact is I don't know what he would have done because I'm not a doctor, and even if I was I wasn't there. I don't know what symptoms were communicated, observed or described by the patient. Nor does anyone else - the only "information" we have is what's been alleged in the lawsuit.

And - again - don't forget that we're talking 40 days from symptoms to brain surgery. In any universe that's exceedingly speedy medical care.

So, yeah, it's not a "good look", but that's only due to the PR mud-slinging campaign of the lawyer, not due to any facts that have been expressly stated and confirmed.

Personally, I'll wait to see if any such facts actually come out in actual court. My guess, though, is that the lawyer convinced the family that it would never get that far and that LSU would settle the case.

Time will tell if I guessed wisely or poorly....

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It is sad for the Kid....but this is life man. This didn't happen from football. He was getting that tumor with or without football.

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It could be said that, without football, Greg wouldn't be here at all. What if he was just some kid that graduated HS, went to college for a business degree, THEN discovered he had the same condition? Would it have even been found in time to do something about it if he didn't have the impetus to perform at peak physical condition and was part of an organization that could get him the help to quickly diagnose it before it killed him?

I understand the "potential loss of income" from a football career denied. But I also see the "potential complete loss of life" if he hadn't had the level of immediate medical care that the LSU football program gave him.

Frankly, I don't blame the kid or his parents. I do blame the ambulance-chasing lawyers who are at the nadir of their craft, given that nothing bad is EVER your fault, but is ALWAYS someone else's fault in this day and age.

And that's true regardless of what your political, religious, economic or philosophic beliefs are. We are at the pinnacle of victim culture, where somebody always has to pay or be blamed for anything "bad" that happens to you.

This case is the perfect example of that. JMO, folks.

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Whipped our arse tho....

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Dude, really?

Don't get me wrong, a loss is a loss and there's no moral victories. But our loss to USCw was far from an "arse whooping". That game was there for us to win, and for many different reasons we didn't take the opportunities given to come out on top.

But that's completely different from being dominated by an obviously more talented team - which they weren't. USCw may have come out with the W, but it wasn't a convincing one in anyone's books. In fact, a lot of people said they were lucky to have won that game at all.

Sorry for the rant, but revisionist history always gets me riled up.

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shouldn’t have to cheer because the qb FINALLY decided to scramble a few yards in a play

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I disagree with much of your post, but this is spot on

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Nobody has proven anything, but I think it's just as likely that the QB was finally ALLOWED to scramble a few yards in a play during the last game of the season.

Given how shitetastic our runblocking and backup QB's were this year, IMO the idea that the coaches prevented Nuss from scrambling is just as plausible as him being too scared/too much of a gunslinger to try scrambling when needed.

Just an opinion, though. Everybody's got one...

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Let him get hit a little bit, it’s part of getting better.

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That's the part that would scare me, after watching Swann try to fill in for him. Putting him in situations where he's likely to get hit hard - and can be treated as a runner when tackled - is a dicey proposition when your backups suck.

Warning, old geezer moment inbound....

Nuss' game reminds me a lot of watching Lynn Dickey for the Packers, back in the day. The dude had a rocket cannon for an arm, but couldn't/wouldn't run for shite. He got sacked so many times because he couldn't/wouldn't run that by the time he retired I think he had two bionic knees.

But when he had time to throw, man, he could make you PAY.

That was a different time, a different game, and was the NFL, but I get the same vibes watching Nuss. Difference is that he can run if/when he decides to (and if he's allowed to). The question is and always has been - what's been stopping him from doing so?

And, again, I'm talking about scrambling, not designed running plays (which I still think would have gotten him killed with this year's OL play).