Bradforth, 19, collapsed and later died following a Garden City practice.
From the KCUR report:
“It’s unfortunate what happened, but God has a plan," Sims told KCUR during football media day for the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAA) in Kansas City. Similar to earlier comments, Sims insisted Bradforth's death was not his fault but instead an act of God.
"We’ve had two investigations, and everybody knows what happened that day. It didn’t happen at football practice; it happened after football practice,” he said.
Garden City officials have authorized an independent investigation into Bradforth's death, which was the subject of a Sports Illustrated article titled "Collapse and Confusion: The Death of a Juco Football Player" in June.
The Sports Illustrated and KCUR articles describea practice in which Bradforth and other football players were required to do 36 50-yard sprints without taking water breaks.
Sims has disputed that allegation, saying 60 gallons of water were available. The KCUR article indicates Sims would not say when he allowed the players to get a drink.
A report from emergency personnel obtained by Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request indicated Braeforth did not follow other players to a team meeting and when the meeting broke up, they discovered him on the ground moaning and in obvious distress.
Players called an assistant coach over. The coach called Sims to ask him what to do, according to the report and Sims told him to call the trainer, who had left the campus. By the time, emergency personnel were finally called and arrived, it had been 48 minutes since Braeforth had been found.
Braeden Braeforth was pronounced dead 33 minutes later.
And these men were in charge of the young college football players, yet these adults did not apparently realize or have the skills to recognize a serious medical emergency?? College level coaches & trainers??? Say goodbye to your careers.
ReplyDeleteLOCK HIM UP!
ReplyDeleteWOW. MSSU......did you not hear of Braeden Braeforth before you hired him? All he had was “Call the trainer.” Sounds suspicious!
ReplyDeleteIf one believes that everything is God's plan then one is never personally responsible for anything.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.si.com/college-football/2019/06/24/braeden-bradforth-death-heatstroke-kansas-juco-garden-city
ReplyDeleteThe article in Sports Illustrated is informative and in-depth. This coach should never have been hired at Southern and should have no place there. Consider what he said in the interview in KC. "It was an unfortunate thing that happened." Way to deflect. "It" was the death of a young college student, and "it" wasn't "unfortunate." It was tragic. Just ask the grieving family. Then the coach ducks personal responsibility by saying that the boy's death was God's will. This echoes a statement he made sometime earlier and is mentioned in the SI article about an ER doc, a blood clot, and a heart attack, when he knows that the autopsy established that the cause of death was heat stroke. If God does indeed have a plan here, I hope it is to make sure that this coach has to pursue another line of work, somewhere else.
IMO MSSU is looking about as good in all this as a busted john caught with a trannie that the john thought was a lady. Yet they are standing by their coach. I wonder if it might be him beating the bible that is keeping his boat afloat.
ReplyDeleteGod must be the ultimate drama queen.
ReplyDeleteWho wouldn't call an ambulance in that situation?
ReplyDelete"Since that day, Atkins-Ingram has fought to learn why the place that was entrusted with caring for her son failed to do so. Excluding a conversation with school president Ryan Ruda, campus police chief Rodney Dozier and interim athletic director Colin Lamb before the completion of her son’s autopsy, Atkins-Ingram says not one coach has reached out to her. After a few weeks, Atkins-Ingram recruited her longtime friend Jill Greene, a lawyer, to help her find out more about Bradforth’s death.
ReplyDeleteWhen Atkins-Ingram heard the results of the autopsy, she became frustrated with Sims’s private and public handling of Bradforth’s death as something that could have happened at any time. “That act-of-God business, God has him now,” she says. “But you kind of helped push him there.”"
https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/06/24/braeden-bradforth-death-heatstroke-kansas-juco-garden-city
I bet when his own kids get sick he doesn't take them to see a community college athletic trainer.
ReplyDeleteAlways keeping it classy MSSU amiright 8:02 pm?
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@12:56 He was an ADULT. This is the one thing that no one bothers to mention because they can't get past "The old evil white man killed the young black boy" narrative, from the ANTIFA/BLM faction of this website. Or the "everything athletic is evil" narrative, from the education faction of this website.
ReplyDeleteThis adult football player was the one responsible for his physical condition upon arrival and his personal hydration. Ask yourselves this, why was no other 300lb lineman (or ANY other player) on this team hospitalized if the workout was so grueling? It was because THIS player came to Garden City out of shape (probably sitting on a NJ couch eating "Golden Oreos" for 2 months non-stop), un-hydrated and absolutely not ready for the transition from high school football to a high octane/high results college football program. No one's fault but his! The people who should be ashamed are the sleazy lawyers and East coast politicians looking for a buck and a little camera/print time.
Dude, literally no one but you has made mention of race or said anything resembling "everything athletic is evil". I guess your notions of personal responsibility don't preclude your own construction of straw man arguments.
Delete10:19, I hope you haven't managed to sleaze your way into being in charge of other people in any capacity. You seem like a really awful person.
Delete"God's plan", every time: Do nothing, then get praised for some supposed future eventual outcome that will make sense of the tragic, yet never does.
ReplyDeleteSims might as well have just said "call the coroner".
ReplyDeleteIs anybody checking on the Southern players?
ReplyDeleteIf Sims ever has a serious medical issue I hope he receives the best care that a community college athletic trainer can provide.
ReplyDeleteLook at the times of all the anonymous posts here. There are many of them that are very close together saying similar things. I am guessing there is one person posting trying to make it look as if "everyone" is up in arms over this.
ReplyDelete10:19, makes several good points.
5:07 is 10:19.
Delete5:07: cOnSpIrAcY!!
Delete10:19 is that you Coach Sims?
ReplyDelete10:19, anyone with a shred of empathy or compassion will find this story troubling, at a minimum. I get that you probably think you have a degree in Personal Responsibility from the Limbaugh Institute, but please give those of us who didn't opt for a right wing radio correspondence course mis-education a little room to exercise our sense of humanity.
ReplyDeleteI recently saw a news piece that was focusing on a coach who had quit and then came back to coaching. He was a time bomb! He was yelling at his team that "you will take a break when I say you can take a break." Dehydration can happen quickly and by the time you are thirsty you are already in trouble. It is a coach's ultimate responsibility to see to it that his team can get a drink when they feel like it, not when they are told that they can. Yes, a body can go into cardiac arrest at any time. Placing God and religion into this situation is ridiculous. "God had plans"......really?
ReplyDeleteMost of you make fun of 10:19, but besides personal insults no one really refutes his/her points ( which are spot on).
ReplyDeleteDon't confuse the mob with logic. If confused the may misplace their torches and pitchforks.
Delete10:21 I'm not going to point out all the flaws in in 10:19 logic in the hopes that Coach Dims and GCCC get taken to pound town by the plaintiffs. Here's an insult for you: If you think people should spend the time to refute all of 10:19's idiocy, then either you are 10:19 or just as deplorable as 10:19 is.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I will state is that if you don't see the need for the coaching staff from Sims on down to recognize this young man's obvious physical distress and obtain appropriate medical attention in a timely fashion for Mr Bradforth (who was following their instructions at their practice) then you are apparently just trolling with your support of 10:19's Trumpian republican "They're always blaming us racists when we are actually the party of personal responsibility" crap.
If 10:19 was the coroner he would've ruled the death a suicide.
ReplyDeleteIf logic and reason is what you seek, you are perusing the wrong site. Nothing to this thread but hysterical emotion.
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