DeBoer Mentioned in Player Lawsuit at UW (Link)

[JesstheWanderer]

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-college-football-coaches-violate-rules-protecting-players/

*Note I was gifted the article. Hopefully, the link is not behind a paywall….

The article is about coaches forcing players to play injured or forcing them out of the program. It is about the practice in college football overall, but one of its main driving stories involves DeBoer at Washington. Tangential to any of this, I know it is not an uncommon practice for new coaches to want to bring their own players in and make room for them. I had a friend who was recruited to play volleyball in college, started at the school, and a new coach came in and she no longer had a spot in the team.

Anyway. Thoughts on this article and particularly on any potential impact to our program.

 

[bamaga]

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-college-football-coaches-violate-rules-protecting-players/

*Note I was gifted the article. Hopefully, the link is not behind a paywall….

The article is about coaches forcing players to play injured or forcing them out of the program. It is about the practice in college football overall, but one of its main driving stories involves DeBoer at Washington. Tangential to any of this, I know it is not an uncommon practice for new coaches to want to bring their own players in and make room for them. I had a friend who was recruited to play volleyball in college, started at the school, and a new coach came in and she no longer had a spot in the team.

Anyway. Thoughts on this article and particularly on any potential impact to our program.

Paywall, and without particulars, it’s hard to comment on the Coach, story or situation.

 

[BamaNation]

meh.

Summarizing: Kid got hurt, had surgery, DeBoer becomes UW's new coach, kid tries a drill in practice, nobody (including the player) appears to have told the team doctor or position coaches or strength coaches OR DeBoer that he couldn't practice. He wanted to play and went out to practice because DeBoer was bringing in transfers to run his offense. Player wanted to be a part of the new offense. Practiced, got hurt again.

The article - as is typical in these "expose's" makes it seem like DeBoer / UW did something sketchy. My take (at least as it regards DeBoer) is you had a football coach coaching football and a football player wanting to play football. Nobody made anybody do anything.

There may be more to it, but that's my cursory take ... This seems to be the crux of the player's suit:

Megwa was still rehabbing his knee. “I do not see a rush to get him back anytime soon,” his doctor, Gee, wrote after a Jan. 13, 2022, exam cited in the suit. “Obviously the target is for him to be 100% by fall camp.”

But as the team began winter workouts, his coaches saw things differently. They pushed him to participate fully: running with changes of direction, bending and pushing off his tender left knee.

 

[bryantdenny]

I don't see anything there to implicate DeBoer.

 

[JustNeedMe81]

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-college-football-coaches-violate-rules-protecting-players/

*Note I was gifted the article. Hopefully, the link is not behind a paywall….

The article is about coaches forcing players to play injured or forcing them out of the program. It is about the practice in college football overall, but one of its main driving stories involves DeBoer at Washington. Tangential to any of this, I know it is not an uncommon practice for new coaches to want to bring their own players in and make room for them. I had a friend who was recruited to play volleyball in college, started at the school, and a new coach came in and she no longer had a spot in the team.

Anyway. Thoughts on this article and particularly on any potential impact to our program.

Paywall. This is ridiculous coaches get sued most of the time.

 

[Jack Bourbon]

Being mentioned in a lawsui is a story?