Det News On Speight's Post-Injury Fiasco At Purdue
Angelique Chengelis was able to speak with Speight's parents on the experience, and what a nightmare it was. This is totally unacceptable from a Big Ten university (or any university, for that matter). LINK and some lowlights:
Michigan and Michigan State have full X-ray capabilities at their stadiums, and they also provide police escorts if a player needs to be transported to and from the hospital. It’s not clear why Speight wasn’t transported directly to a hospital by ambulance.
Instead, Wilton sat in the front seat of a van provided by Purdue and driven by a student. The Speights, two medical trainers, a doctor and Thai Trinh, an orthopedic sports medicine fellow at Michigan, piled into a van to be transported to the student health clinic, about two blocks from the stadium.
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“They take us in the basement,” Bobby Speight said. “It’s very dimly lit. Halfway down the hall, there’s a (radiology) technician. Wilton is in (partial) uniform and still wearing cleats, and she asks Wilton his name. The (van driver) says he needs an X-ray. (The technician) looks at me and says, ‘I need your insurance card.’ ”
“And we waited 20 minutes for the rescue squad team,” he said. “At that point, Wilton says he has tingling in his legs and is in substantial pain. The EMT riding in the back of the ambulance asks us if we need an IV or vital monitoring and Trinh replied, ‘No, but we need him stable and immobile. This is a back injury.’ We stop at a light, and the Michigan doctor asks how long is it going to take, and (the EMT) said 30 to 45 minutes on game day.
“Our doctor asked him, ‘Couldn’t we please turn on the siren and make better time?’ And (the rescue squad member) said, ‘Don’t you get smart with me. You said this is a non-vital trip.’ Our doctor said, ‘I don’t care what I told you, this boy has tingling in his legs. Turn the siren on and go.’
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seems unfathomable Purdue didn't have an ambulance on-scene at the stadium???
I thought that was standard operating procedure for a football game at ANY level (they're always there at high school games, for instance).
October 26th, 2017 at 10:07 PM ^
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They did have one - it says in the story they used it to transport the immobilizer device thingy from the stadium to the hospital once they finished the CT scan. Why the hell they didn't stick Speight in it in the first place seems to still be a mystery.
October 26th, 2017 at 11:19 PM ^
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play there until at least 2022 (2020 is a home game against them), bad news is other teams have to.
http://www.mgoblue.com/news/2009/8/18/Future_Michigan_Football_Schedules.aspx
As Coach said the other ADs should get together and make sure this gets fixed ASAP.
October 26th, 2017 at 10:33 PM ^
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WHAT IN THE FUCK!
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The Big Ten and the NCAA are both unbelievably incompetent organizations.
October 27th, 2017 at 12:51 PM ^
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October 26th, 2017 at 10:36 PM ^
To send Delaney another email message. Link to the independent news articles when you do.
October 26th, 2017 at 11:04 PM ^
I'd leave this conference tomorrow. NO, yesterday
Be independent
October 26th, 2017 at 10:46 PM ^
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I don't expect him back.
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October 27th, 2017 at 1:16 AM ^
for liking someones tweet. So I tweeted SVP. I dont watch him anymore.
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Sad part is: that a large number of CFB fans won't care because they're more interested in seeing misfortune befall Michigan than they are having professional care for student-athletes regardless of school.
October 27th, 2017 at 7:09 AM ^
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1-800-Call-Sam says you can
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October 27th, 2017 at 8:27 AM ^
I thought the hit was late, but I'm having trouble understading how what happened after the hit informs us as to whether the hit was late or not.
October 27th, 2017 at 12:37 AM ^
Wake up Big Ten and get your shit together. Spend those piles of money on something useful.
October 27th, 2017 at 12:39 AM ^
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Seriously
October 27th, 2017 at 9:21 AM ^
Bad thing is I normally like SVP
October 27th, 2017 at 1:05 AM ^
Everything about this is unreal. Absolutely unreal. I've seen better medical emergency preparation and planning for a freaking two-bit 5k race...
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