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SumItUp
May 10th, 2010, 02:17 PM
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5176992


LA GRANDE, Ore. -- A football player from Missoula, Mont., has died of a head injury suffered during Eastern Oregon's spring football game, school officials said.
JALMOND
May 10th, 2010, 10:37 PM
Story from Oregon Live, including commentary from the head of sports medicine at OHSU, one of the finest neurological institutions in the country.

www.oregonlive.com/sports/

Eastern Oregon University has been operating on a shoestring for a few years now. Not only do they have to compete with the offerings at other Oregon universities, but both Boise State and Washington State offer in-state tuition for kids that live in eastern Oregon. The impending lawsuit from this accident could be the final blow for the university. A tragedy for everyone involved.
MplsBison
May 11th, 2010, 09:26 AM
So is this an equipment issue?

Otherwise, how is the school at fault? Players get concussions every season. It happens. But how many players suffer acute subdural hematomas? Probably a genetic disposition thing...
JALMOND
May 11th, 2010, 06:31 PM
So is this an equipment issue?

Otherwise, how is the school at fault? Players get concussions every season. It happens. But how many players suffer acute subdural hematomas? Probably a genetic disposition thing...

I guess what does the family have to lose by not filing a lawsuit against the school. Many things could possibly be traced back to the school, the actual procedures followed, the equipment issue (especially for a financially strapped school as EOU) even the idea that he was a 21 year old freshman transfer from Montana. Did EOU properly check with the Griz trainers and medical staff before Steigers was cleared to play and was EOU the only school willing to take a chance on a player with possible concussion issues (is that why he hadn't played football for at least three years)? Maybe Montana would not clear him to play and that is why he left. What does the family have to lose to give the courts the opportunity to decide these issues?
Crosis
May 11th, 2010, 09:15 PM
Very sad to hear when a young life is lost. RIP.