Karl Juhnke
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ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser I hope this doesn't make me sound like an asshole but this has to be killing recruiting. That's all they are talking about now. You wouldn't even know there was a game going on. No it doesn't make you sound like an asshole. Souhan has the spin of an asshole on this one. I actually liked Souhan's article on this. Which is rare because I don't generally like his columns much. This needs to be addressed. And if Kill and his staff think gritting your teeth and going back out there business as usual is addressing it, they are wrong. You simply can't have a major college football program run by a guy who people are anxiously watching during a tense situation to make sure he's not writhing on the ground. You feel for the guy, but it just can't go on. I like Kill and his staff very much. I was lukewarm when they were first hired. They have convinced me they are running a good program headed in the right direction. But constant in-game hospitalizations will cast a pall on the whole thing. Sure you can look at it and say it shouldn't negatively impact the game experience for fans, players and recruits. But it will. That's just a fact. I honestly don't know what solution I am proposing. All I know is status quo is not it. What he really needs is probably some psychological help. Obviously the stress of the game is what is doing it. Someone needs to get him to look in a mirror and realize that his yelling screaming and intensity on the sidelines really isn't having any impact on the game, so he needs to learn to let go a bit on game day and just calmly manage. If the doctors say it's not dangerous for Kill, I'm going to go with that, not with what Souhan thinks. That said, there are legitiamte questions here: yes, if he's hurting the program, you have to factor that into your decisionmaking, no doubt about it. That's a fair question. (Although he could have a seizure every game and be better than Brewster.) What I sense on Souhan's part is total ignorance re: the disease itself. I didn't detect anything in the article that would suggest Souhan is somehow ignorant about epilepsy. He was talking mostly about the effect it has on the program, and that is a legitimate concern. I will say though that Souhan overreacted a bit on Teague. Reporters tend to think the world revolves around them and get pissy when the guy they want to interview isn't immediately available. Teague obviously isn't going to have any long term answers immediately after it happens. So at most you're just going to get a generic "Gosh we all hope coach is OK" quote anyway. I'm willing to wait and see what Teague does from here before judging him.
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