OSU recruit who was not medically cleared will play for Auburn instead
Jamel Dean is the OSU recruit who enrolled early this past winter only to find out OSU would not clear him medically to play football. Coincidentally, OSU was oversigned at the time. Not that they were related at all. Well, Dean just got offered to play at Auburn. Strange to see an SEC school benefiting from a Big Ten school cutting a recruit due to oversigning.
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My guess is that if you dig deep enough into anyone's medical history, you'll find something that could be framed as onerous enough to make it medically inadvisable to compete. Now, most coaches don't care, and in circumstances where the injury could potentially lead to serious complications but the player is quite valuable, they'd probably push them to keep playing in spite of it. But if you NEED to find some space, you can absolutely dig deep enough and find a kneee injury or a sprained back that would be valid grounds to be medical'd. That's probably what happened here, and yet more arrow in the quiver that Meyer is a POS who gets way too much credit as an upstanding person for having Tim Tebow on his team.
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If Meyer really did have legitimate health concerns you'd think they'd have a little sympathy for the guy. They don't.
Hmmm...I wonder why.
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Occam would slice this as simply two doctors coming to different prognoses. Which happens all the time. Throwing in all the oversigning stuff just complicates what is probably much more simple.
If you get two very different diagnoses, and one makes a hell of a lot more sense from a medical standpoint, then Occam would ask "why?" Because Occam would see two diagnoses:
- One from a team doctor that this kid's knee is so injured that he will likely never be able to contribute to Ohio State's football team, despite the fact that it is a relatively minor and common injury, and
- One from Dr. James Andrews that this kid's minor and common knee injury is in fact minor and common, and that his long-term prognosis is roughly what one would expect from an injury like that.
And he would see that the differing diagnoses happened to correspond to the need to clear some scholarships. And he would see that a major Power-5 team snapped the kid up in a heartbeat to play roughly the same level of football that he was supposed to be unable to play. And he would be like "okay, bro, I get the point."
Kaeding's and Andrew's jobs are to evaluate the situation and provide a prognosis; how their respective head coaches decide to interpret those results as it pertains to the "suitability" of the player to play is at issue here. I don't think anyone believes Kaeding (or whoever actually reviewed the medical information) as lying, but there's a huge chasm between illegal behavior and framing the information in a certain light, and in this context I'm guessing his injury was portrayed as maybe-serious if you want to find a reason to get rid of him (OSU) or maybe-minor (Auburn) if you want him to sign and play.
Based on the little information I have seen, this doesn't seem like terrible knee injuries. Drake Johnson had worse injuries and he keeps playing. Lots of guys in college have previous knee injuries and still suit up. This isn't a concussion or a back injury; it's torn-up knees. It sucks and I'm sure the recovery is painful, but both Barrett and Miller had (it sounds) equally-serious injuries just as recently and I'd be surprised if either got the "can't play" prognosis.
If they offered him a medical hardships scholarship the doctor has to sign off on it. The OSU team doctors led by Kaeding didn't clear him to play football, there's no room for interpretation or framing by the head coach.
Not all knee injuries are created equal and the fact that other players have managed to recover from knee injuries has no bearing on this kid's prognosis. Unless you're a medical professional with access to this kid's imaging studies and his medical history, you're frankly talking out of your butt. I choose to give the benefit of the doubt to a well respected Orthopedic Surgeon who's head of the sports medicine department at Ohio State. Most people on this thread don't because obviously everyone at OSU is a machiavellian villian with sociopathic tendencies.
http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/37/11/2102.abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24914032
Do you honestly believe that no one in the history of college football and the NFL has had to quit the sport because of a meniscectomy? LIke... seriously?
As a physician, I have an obligation to question this decision. The head of the sports medicine department could have allowed more time for rehab, before making a decision. He had a moral and legal duty to put his patient's best interests first. Did he fail to do so?
Like I was trying to say above, adding in that last paragraph really complicates things. It makes for an interesting story, but probably has nothing to do with it.
Well, you are dumb.
[I put about as much thought into my response as you did into yours]
Well, we will know who the shady people are in 6 to 9 months. Either OSU screwed this kid and Auburn gave him a chance or Auburn is about to mess this kid's livelyhood up. Hopefully for this kid it's neither.
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Oversigning continues nearly unabated while the nation continues its outrage of "deflated" footballs. Good times.
When physicians aren't sure about a case like this, they rely on "expectant mananagement," aka "tincture of time" to determine what to do. There was no medical reason, it seems, why Ohio State could not have used this wait-and-see approach. So ethically-speaking, the team physician should have delayed making a recommendation, in his patient's best interest.