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High school football player dies at practice

Homerboy

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I love sports as much as the next person. I have coached many different levels of several different sports. My friends coach at many different levels. My son has participated in many different sports and is still highly involved (baseball) at a high level. So I am not anti-sports. Nor even anti-highly-competitive sports. What I am against is the insanity that some of these (mostly football) coaches do to their athletes and their lack of common sense all.


http://www.newsday.com/beta/long-is...-cops-say-1.13966482?firstfree=yes&pts=681522

An 11th-grade student at Sachem High School East died Thursday morning after a log fell on his head during a training drill at an offseason football camp on school grounds in Farmingville, officials said.

Joshua Mileto, 16, of Farmingville, was participating in a strength and conditioning camp at the school at 177 Granny Rd., police said. Five athletes were performing a drill carrying a log overhead — with Mileto somewhere in the middle — when “the log fell and struck” him, police said.

Mileto’s injury was reported at 8:40 a.m. and he was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Suffolk County Police Assistant Commissioner Justin Meyers said.
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Eh I'd just chalk that up to a freak accident. Nothing wrong with trying unorthodox training methods that have worked forever. People have been carrying stuff overhead forever to strength train.

One kid in my younger sisters class in highschool also died during football practice years back. I think he died of heat stroke or dehydration. This was back in like 2000 or 2001 I think before everything was on the internet so I can't find the exact reason.

Ban logs.
 
These types of team building exercises are very common in football. This particular exercise is not even unorthodox. Football does attract a certain kind of male just as other sports attract other kinds of males (/females). I don't, yet, find anything malicious done here. The result will be that this particular exercise will get banned.
 
Read that yesterday. I can't even imagine...

Some years back, there was a story where 15 or so HS kids ended up in the hospital with rhabdomyolysis after a practice. Never met a football coach that gave a rats ass about the players more than winning.

Here it is....In Oregon, 22 high-school football players were hospitalized after a conditioning session in 2010. Thirteen were admitted, and three underwent surgery after suffering tricep compartment syndrome, an Oregon Public Health investigation reported.

I wasn't that good of a player but I was big so I had the pleasure of William Perry running over me during the summer 2 a days. When I tore the ACL and wasn't coming back....highland who?
 
Err them training to be navy seals? Shouldn't they be geared up while carrying log to make it harder and safer?
 
I guess they know who not to request as polebearers at the funeral.


Yes, I know the correct spelling, but that wouldn't be funny now would it?
 
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