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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 426154, member: 837"]
I don't know, it's a miserable situation and it's obviously pretty easy to say in hindsight that it was horrible negligence and all brian kelly's fault. I also would not begin to argue that kelly is some sort of saint or even a good guy -- i really don't know. He certainly comes off as something of a jacka$$ publicly. 
 
But, were there no other teams in the midwest who practiced outside and/or videoed those practices on that fateful day? Are coaches truly never using those lifts in winds greater than 25 mph? 
 
I don't know, it was a bad decision but I don't know that it's really fair to blame the guy for a death of a student. Horrible situation. Bad decision. I wouldn't blame the family for wanting the guy fired or executed or something, if that was how they felt. But I'm just not sure it equates to someone being a horrible person, particularly since football loves talking about how tough the sport and the players are. It intentionally creates an environment that puts kids at risk every single day.
 
And, as for the media painting him to be some sort of superhuman or legendary coach, let's consider two things:
 
1) they do this with every coach who wins a title
 
2) we're talking about a program that the media has claimed for the past 15 years was a complete abyss and incapable of competing in modern day football. They almost [I]have[/I] to tell you how good Kelly is b/c they spent 15 years explaining how it didn't matter who the coach was, the program simply couldn't win.
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