Notre Dame Student Manager Dies in Tower Collapse

I think the Facebook posts save ND. The kid *did* say he'd lived long enough.



Sorry.

 

I am missing something. If Notre Dame was practicing indoors, what was he filming?

What a horrible way to die. Especially since he was scared shitless about it for an hour and a half.

 

I'll be curious to see how NBC - the Notre Dame network - will address this in the next game.

 

Listen, there are some serious assholes at Notre Dame to send him up on a day like that.

But instead of tweeting, at some point, does it occur to a 20-year-old to put down the phone, and look out for your own safety?

 

Notre Dame practiced indoors Tuesday because of the wind. They were outdoors Wednesday.

 

I've been up on one of those scissor lifts. Even the slightest breeze is scary as shit. 50 mph winds on top of one of those things is fucking insane. Even if Brian Kelly didn't make him go up there, he should've made him come down from there. I mean, c'mon.

Let's call it like it is, though: College football coaches are micromanagers who sure as shit don't want a video kid scared for his life to interrupt the 2 hours of practice time. Football coaches are dictators, and anyone under his umbrella--assistant coaches, players, student managers--know not to question them and to stay out of their way.

20-year old student managers are supposed to do their job and otherwise not be seen or heard. If he would've said "Fuck this" and come down in the middle of practice, thus compromising Kelly's practice film, and the lift never toppled over? He's considered the pussy student manager who hurt Notre Dame's preparation for Tulsa.

I don't blame the 20-year old kid at all. When you're at the bottom of the totem pole, you're wired to do as your told.

This one is on Kelly. He might wiggle his way out of it, but I guarantee you it's on him and he knows it. The fact that they practiced for 25 more minutes is pretty telling, too.

This makes me sick to my stomach. I've long contended that Division I football coaches are among the worst people on Earth. This is more evidence, in my opinion.

 

Well said.

And there are some 40-something year olds in South Bend that should be out of a job today. Who that is, I can't say. But someone or someones should be terminated immediately. And it doesn't take long to figure out who those someones are.

And are criminal charges out of the question here? Doesn't seem like it to me.

 

Better hit him hard at the press conference coming up. Do not pull any punches here.

 

Looks like Kelly isn't talking after practice today, according to Eric Hansen of the SB Tribune's Twitter feed. I would guess the school's lawyers advised against it. That, and, less cynically, he's probably grieving and speechless. Nothing to be gained by strolling out there today, I guess, though I would have liked to have seen him man up. There's time for that, though.

 

The kind of grieving and speechless he was for the 25 minutes they practiced while the kid was dead in the street?

 

Stinks of guilt.