Posted on 12/30/2009 10:27:47 AM PST by rintense
Ironically, they may now have to pay him considerably more if he sues (and I hope he does).
And attorneys are always forthright, no doubt. I have reason to believe that the story of the demand was true.
One incident in 10 years... what a load of crap.
I always had the feeling that Craig James was a dick.
Leach put him in a dark room because he didn’t respect the fact that James had a concussion. I assume that is why James had on dark glasses. The fact is that Leach told trainers to find a dark, isolated place and stick Adam in it.
Per the DMN (Kevin Sherrington):
The message was clear: Leach didn’t like the diagnosis and/or James.
He also sent a message, perhaps inadvertently, to the rest of his players. Concussions may be the most underreported injuries in athletics, which makes them all the more dangerous. When a coach in effect tells his players this is how he deals with head injuries, it hardly encourages them to say they might have a problem.
The James clan and Leach and tt need to go buy lots of something to put on those wounds... a tanker load of Windex should do the trick.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
If he established a reputation as a faker, who’s going to believe him? Once personal credibility is gone, nothing you say can or will be trusted.
It was a perfect storm - an AD who wanted to get rid of his coach, a coach who was quirky enough to do something that some people might question, a prima donna player, a dad who wanted more playing time for his son, and a sports network who "broke" the story and reported the dads side of the story for the first 36 hours, setting the template.
A high profile whiner made an accusation and it was just what gerald meyers needed to get rid of the Coach....
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Good to see you, Sir! And yeah, he’s a big time d!ck.
James sure did Cry Wolf a lot, and that may explain Leach's skepticism that, this time, the wolf had really come.
Guess what doctors say to do if a player has a concussion? A dark quite place with supervision.... and a doctor later said nothing detrimental was done - in fact, dark, quite is called for. How was that abusive?
Yep. The boy cried wolf.
Your post will not be popular, but it is correct.
I smell a set up.
Heh, I just posted that analogy (cried wolf), but it turns out you beat me to it. Right on.
Yeah - it stinks to high heaven!
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A question that perhaps will be answered in the future, is Adam James was such a cancer in the clubhouse why did Leach keep him on the team all these years, I believe 3. was Leach letting his ego get in the way since he brought James onto the team when the assistants say he was not D-I material?
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