Oregon Trying To Kill Their Players

[AlaskaGuy]

An attorney for a Seattle law firm who just so happens to be a University of Washington grad btw, just said on the radio that he's willing to represent these three young victims pro-bono.

 

[RegentDenali]

Oregon down last year was a hit to the Nike financial empire. Uncle Phil wasn't going to tolerate that in 2017.

 

[AlaskaGuy]

Multiple Oregon football players remain hospitalized after strenuous workouts

The start of the Willie Taggart era at Oregon has brought about some worrisome news. Per The Oregonian, at least three Ducks football players were hospitalized following strenuous offseason workouts conducted late last week.

Tight end Cam McCormick and offensive linemen Doug Brenner and Sam Poutasi are said to be in fair condition. Players have been participating in workouts since returning from the holiday break.

Per The Oregonian, the workouts that hospitalized the players could be described as rigorous, to say the least ...

Players this week were required to finish the same workouts, which were described by multiple sources as akin to military basic training, with one said to include up to an hour of continuous push-ups and up-downs. The sources said that some players "passed out" and others later complained of discolored urine, which is a common symptom of rhabdomyolysis. After testing, others were found to have highly elevated levels of creatine kinase, an indicator of the syndrome.

One player, Poutasi, has officially been diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a rare syndrome in which muscle tissue is broken down and leaks into the bloodstream. This can be triggered by extremely intense workouts.

Taggart, who changed strength & conditioning coaches after being hired late last month, reportedly visited some of the players in the hospital. Irele Oderinde, who joined Taggart from South Florida, is now leading the strength program.

Though rhabdomyolsis is considered rare, this is not the first time it has afflicted a football program during workouts. In 2011, 13 players at Iowa were hospitalized due to the disease.

 

[Brasky]

I was gonna say... I was sure Iowa had this happen.

A player did file a lawsuit and settled out of court.

Ex-Iowa player sues over 'rhabdo' injuries

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Trying to kill or is someone finally making them work out like they should have been?

 

[jonvi]

An attorney for a Seattle law firm who just so happens to be a University of Washington grad btw, just said on the radio that he's willing to represent these three young victims pro-bono.

And right on cue, out come the ambulance chasers.

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Those west coast boys are soft, Taggert will get them into shape.

 

[uncfan103]

sounds to me like it was less about the coaches pushing and more about the players pushing themselves, not being ready for this. which goes along with prior reports that some players were slacking when it came to weights and workouts. which then translated on the field.

Agreed. Sounds to me like Taggert and Co. now know which kids didn't do anything own their own to stay in shape during the holiday break.

 

[mrwallace2ku]

An attorney for a Seattle law firm who just so happens to be a University of Washington grad btw, just said on the radio that he's willing to represent these three young victims pro-bono.

AMBULANCE CHASER...

 

[Olyduck]

Oregon football players hospitalized after military-style workouts, report says

Military Style!!! The NCAA is going to have to look into this for sure.

How do you figure? there are Military schools with in the NCAA. just because Oregon isn't one doesn't mean a military style wouldn't be allowed at the school.

 

[Olyduck]

An attorney for a Seattle law firm who just so happens to be a University of Washington grad btw, just said on the radio that he's willing to represent these three young victims pro-bono.

must have been bottom of his class

 

[mcnabb7542]

 

[WizardHawk]

Anyone gonna post what the actual players are saying?
The fans complain about the team losing then wanna say they are working to hard?
other teams fans call them soft but now taking shots for them working?

The NCAA medical handbook listed "novel workouts or exercises immediately following a transitional period" such as a winter break as one of its 10 factors that can increase the risk of rhabdomyolysis. It also cautioned that "all training programs should start slowly, build gradually, include adequate rest and allow for individual differences."

It's in the NCAA handbook and one would expect all conditioning staff to be fully up to speed on those documents.

This is entirely incompetence and nothing else. You can easily blame the kids, but it is the duty of that staff to protect them from themselves as well as provide quality information on how to safely build their bodies up. They failed to do that.

They will be sued and rightfully so. They put these kids lives at risk when all they had to do was build it up slower.

Yes, your kids were clearly too soft and having that extra time off away because of no bowl game didn't help. It was then on the new staff to recognize that and build them up to those higher levels in accordance with standard practices. They clearly failed to do so. It wasn't just three kids, but others had the dark urine as well.

Continue to wear homer glasses and defend it if it helps you sleep better at night, but the school will be sued over this and there will be consequences. The NCAA can't allow stupid to exist in its member institutions.

 

[Brasky]

WHERE IS @OregonDucks AT

 

[7Samurai13]

WHERE IS @OregonDucks AT

Tending to the injured.

 

[Brasky]

I mean it goes without saying, but this is a disaster to start off your tenure.

Hope this gives us that little edge to take Lenoir off of their hands.

 

[RobToxin]

For some reason, this conversation made me take a trip down memory lane.....

 

[Olyduck]

It's in the NCAA handbook and one would expect all conditioning staff to be fully up to speed on those documents.

This is entirely incompetence and nothing else. You can easily blame the kids, but it is the duty of that staff to protect them from themselves as well as provide quality information on how to safely build their bodies up. They failed to do that.

They will be sued and rightfully so. They put these kids lives at risk when all they had to do was build it up slower.

Yes, your kids were clearly too soft and having that extra time off away because of no bowl game didn't help. It was then on the new staff to recognize that and build them up to those higher levels in accordance with standard practices. They clearly failed to do so. It wasn't just three kids, but others had the dark urine as well.

Continue to wear homer glasses and defend it if it helps you sleep better at night, but the school will be sued over this and there will be consequences. The NCAA can't allow stupid to exist in its member institutions.

From inside reports breaks were allowed if the players chose to take them.
yes they probably started to fast.

call it homerism all you want, as a husky fan it just looks more like throwing shade and hate

 

[Goldbug]

Back when Nautilus equipment was being perfected, they sent two complete sets of these new machines to the University of Oklahoma and Southern Cal. (The inventor was from Seminole, Oklahoma.) A bunch of us on the OU football and wrestling teams dropped by to look at it and test it out. WTF? We were used to stacking 200, 300, 350 lbs on bars and getting with the program. Here we were putting about half that weight on the machines to work out with and it was killing us. None of us wanted to admit we couldn't lift our normal heavy weights so we blew ourselves out trying to lift too much weight on a machine that was a HELL of a lot harder to lift on because the weight stayed "heavy" all through the motion. We all ended up puking all over the place. It was the sickest I ever got during a workout. Shit happens when there is peer pressure being put on you.

 

[WizardHawk]

From inside reports breaks were allowed if the players chose to take them.
yes they probably started to fast.

call it homerism all you want, as a husky fan it just looks more like throwing shade and hate

I'd be pissed if this happened to the kids at UW. You appear to be fine with it and defending it. So how is it I look more like a homer than you do?