[QUOTE=bigrobbie;31470]From your posts, you obviously feel we should reserve judgment on Kelly, this incident, and the program in general. With so little coming from Swarbrick and the coach (commentary of substance), that's hard to do. Anyway, if you can elaborate, what are your 3 friends saying about what happened? If you have some good insight, I think everyone would love to hear it. I'm basing my opinion on how things "appear" from the outside - but maybe we're missing something. I don't think so, but I am open to another point of view.[/QUOTE]
Well people are going to judge no matter what. It's very easy to point fingers after the fact. One of the reasons Weis was fired was because of how soft the team was and a lot of fans pointed to the fact that they would go indoors any time it was under 60 degrees as part of this.
According to my one friend - a walk-on linebacker (Declan was filming the defense) - as soon as the lift fell, a bunch of the players ran over to him. Manti was the first one there and they immediately started trying to help. A few seconds later, the medical stuff got there and started tending towards him.
The players on the other side of the field had no idea what was going on (there are multiple full-length football fields within the complex), so Kelly told them to keep doing the drills until he could investigate what happened (remember, the lift had fallen outside the walls of the practice complex so Kelly had to go out the gate and run around the fence to get to the fallen lift). As soon as he saw that the medical personnel/ambulance was there and tending to Declan, Kelly walked back in, called the team together, said a prayer, and then practice was over.
