'13 VA OLB Doug Randolph (Notre Dame Signed LOI)

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Spine injury, not medically cleared to play. Will be a student assistant.
 
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career over due to injury of the spine, will be a student assistant this season
 
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And people thought we were going to have to get creative to get the roster DOWN to 85 this year...
 
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Breaking: Doug Randolph Retiring From Football - Irish Sports Daily


Author: Matt Freeman
March 15, 2016

Notre Dame is a place where the coaching staff uses the line, “It’s a 40-year decision instead of a four-year decision.”

For senior defensive lineman Doug Randolph, the line is the reason he picked Notre Dame and because of injury, he will be forced to hang up his cleats with Brian Kelly announcing today that Randolph will no longer be playing football.

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Q. It is anticlimactic but I'm going to go there since we started. Looks like Doug Randolph is not on the roster?

Brian Kelly: Yeah, Doug is not cleared for competition, so his career is over here. He will be a student assistant. He has had a spondo -- I guess the specific is a narrowing of the spine essentially. I don't want to get into the specifics because I don't want to pronounce them wrong, but he has not been cleared. He will be a student assistant for us, similar to the role that Tony Springmann had for us. He'll assist with the defensive line.
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"I had a suspicion going into it because I could just tell something was very off. But this didn’t change my path at all."

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There is going to be a wave of lawsuits holding colleges/coaches liable for football injuries, because of modern medicine saying "football is verrrry bad for your head/neck/spine/etc" and the vast majority will just settle and the plaintiff gets a big fat check.
 
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So this is basically a medical malpractice lawsuit. Second, the "concealed" angle he's trying to play obviously falls on his face because he never asked for the MRI or tried to get a second opinion at the time of that initial diagnosis. So it hinges on whether there was negligence in the initial diagnosis... and this kind of lawsuit is incredibly common, and the ND doctor could've totally screwed up, but it'll be hard to prove unless it was something super glaring.
 
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Buster Bluth said:
There is going to be a wave of lawsuits holding colleges/coaches liable for football injuries, because of modern medicine saying "football is verrrry bad for your head/neck/spine/etc" and the vast majority will just settle and the plaintiff gets a big fat check.
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Yup.
 
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IrishLax said:
So this is basically a medical malpractice lawsuit. Second, the "concealed" angle he's trying to play obviously falls on his face because he never asked for the MRI or tried to get a second opinion at the time of that initial diagnosis. So it hinges on whether there was negligence in the initial diagnosis... and this kind of lawsuit is incredibly common, and the ND doctor could've totally screwed up, but it'll be hard to prove unless it was something super glaring.
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Yeah. Seems like the facts of the case rest largely on what that MRI after the initial injury showed, and - though it's a bit unclear if Randolph has a copy - the Indy Star story doesn't say what that was. The rest of it basically boils down to, frankly, normal football injury stuff and some he said/she said about what a trainer may have told him during the Fiesta Bowl. After that Notre Dame clearly shut him down.

Also, while reporters sometimes hear what they want to hear, it certainly didn't appear there were hard feelings at the time of that SBT story about him in the spring. Wonder if a lawyer got in his family's ear at some point.
 
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stlnd01 said:
Yeah. Seems like the facts of the case rest largely on what that MRI after the initial injury showed, and - though it's a bit unclear if Randolph has a copy - the Indy Star story doesn't say what that was. The rest of it basically boils down to, frankly, normal football injury stuff and some he said/she said about what a trainer may have told him during the Fiesta Bowl. After that Notre Dame clearly shut him down.

Also, while reporters sometimes hear what they want to hear, it certainly didn't appear there were hard feelings at the time of that SBT story about him in the spring. Wonder if a lawyer got in his family's ear at some point.
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I'm just not sure what BK did wrong to be included in the lawsuit. He relied on the advice given to him by his medical staff, as any HC would do.
 
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stlnd01 said:
Yeah. Seems like the facts of the case rest largely on what that MRI after the initial injury showed, and - though it's a bit unclear if Randolph has a copy - the Indy Star story doesn't say what that was. The rest of it basically boils down to, frankly, normal football injury stuff and some he said/she said about what a trainer may have told him during the Fiesta Bowl. After that Notre Dame clearly shut him down.

Also, while reporters sometimes hear what they want to hear, it certainly didn't appear there were hard feelings at the time of that SBT story about him in the spring. Wonder if a lawyer got in his family's ear at some point.
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Yeah, that is almost surely what happened. I mean it's probably free cash for him soooo.....
 
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BoredIrish said:
I'm just not sure what BK did wrong to be included in the lawsuit. He relied on the advice given to him by his medical staff, as any HC would do.
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The cynical side of me says that including Kelly makes it a bigger deal, draws more national attention to it, national media and court of public opinion is usually one the players side, therefore this puts more pressure on the school to settle, thus allowing Randolph more leverage in compensation negotiations.

The more logical part of me says that because Kelly probably hired Hunt and oversees the football program in general, he is also to blame. Kind of a "the buck stops with Kelly" type thing.
 
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SouthSideChiDomer said:
The cynical side of me says that including Kelly makes it a bigger deal, draws more national attention to it, national media and court of public opinion is usually one the players side, therefore this puts more pressure on the school to settle, thus allowing Randolph more leverage in compensation negotiations.
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It is almost certainly this.
 
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They did the MRI looking for injury or instability, spinal stenosis is neither of those. Also NSAID's don't give you mood changes. Looks like a fishing expedition
 
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Doug has to know how many bridges he's going to burn looking for a quick money grab right?
 
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