Syracuse football defensive tackle Steven Clark's career put in jeopardy by blood clots

[Ringostar57]

This is on Wildhack. He is nothing! Definitely not an AD.

 

[blizz]

I'm with you guys, I won't renew or make donations until this is resolved.

 

[Toga]

I'm with you guys, I won't renew or make donations until this is resolved.

Just be sure to advise the AD.

 

[blizz]

Just be sure to advise the AD.

I definitely will be writing Wildhack and Syverud.

 

[AZOrange]

I think it comes down to why he got the blood clots. That's causing them to be even more risk averse.

Yep. I agree. It's very clear

 

[javadoc]

I believe that we should consider sending the administration a group correspondence.

My missive, just sent to Wildhack, Frazier, and Pike:

Dear AD Wildhack,

The first football game I attended was the opening game of the Carrier Dome. Joe Morris to the house on the opening kickoff! I grew up in Syracuse, and my parents still live there. Syracuse sports have been an integral part of my life.

Do you remember when Dr. Raphael saved the life of a referee who collapsed? What a proud day for the Syracuse medical staff.

Have you followed the ongoing tribulations of Steven Clark? What a shameful day for our medical staff, and program.

From an outsider's perspective, our medical staff has become a liability to the program, where it should be an asset. We are not existentially secure enough to withstand self-inflicted damage. As a private school, the deck is stacked against us, which requires us to control the controllables moreso than other, state-backed programs must.

I am now trying to arrange a road trip to Baton Rouge so that my 8-year-old son can see his first football game. I am checking my calendar against our home schedule to see which game I will fly to Syracuse to see.

And I ask myself, is it worth it? Is the AD really trying, or simply cashing ACC checks and fielding a team? Seemingly little, but consequential issues like this medical imbroglio erode one's willingness to be "all in", and instead foster an attitude of "give me an excuse to check out and not waste my time".

Are you familiar with what happened to Kyle Knapp, and his decision to leave Syracuse?

(New joke:

Q: how many specialists does it take to keep a kid from being disqualified at Syracuse?

A: LOL!)

We finally have a winner in Dino Babers. Please do not lose him over nonsense like this. Please evaluate our medical program.

Sincerely,
Jeff Wilson, Alpharetta, GA
Ph.D. 1994, Cornell University
Cicero-North Syracuse Class of 1985

 

[bcubs9497]

This is 2 years old from former player Kyle Knapp who transferred to Western Michigan.

Read this.

orangeintheaccWalk On
Our family wanted to go quietly from SU, but this thread has my blood boiling. Kyle does in fact have parents, I happen to be his dad. Other than the obvious football stuff, Kyle and our family have had a great experience at SU. We've met a lot of great people - parents, faculty and fans that have welcomed us with open arms.

Just to set the record straight Kyle had 2 concussions - the "3rd" one that Tucker DQ'd him for was questionable -even Dr. Tucker wasn't sure about it. So no, he did not have anywhere near 7 concussions.
As far as I know, Dr. Tucker is a GP. He has the final say with regard to medical DQs. We asked and he would not allow us to get a second opinion from a neurologist or anyone else. In a phone call Dr. tucker said Kyle was done and that was it.

On our own dime we took Kyle to a concussion specialist at UPMC. He literally knew within 5 minutes what was wrong with him and he couldn't believe SU's people couldn't see it themselves. Kyle's eyes weren't converging which made him susceptible to getting concussions. 7 weeks of eye therapy later his baseline tests were back to normal or above. The Dr. At UPMC had zero qualms about Kyle playing again. neither did the other doctor we saw. Unfortunately, SU had already moved on.

Our family loves football, but we would never put his future at risk if we thought it was dangerous to his future. Kyle wanted to play for SU more than anything. I don't think he deserves some of the stupid crap in this thread.

Not surprising. And has a very similar ring to it.

 

[bcubs9497]

You know, thinking back on the phone call with Steven just after his meeting with Tucker, I'm pretty sure that he said Tucker didn't even return Dr Kouides' phone calls.

 

[OburgOrange]

You know, thinking back on the phone call with Steven just after his meeting with Tucker, I'm pretty sure that he said Tucker didn't even return Dr Kouides' phone calls.

:bang:

 

[OburgOrange]

It's a wonder Dungey is still with us. Ugh

 

[tipphill]

It's a wonder Dungey is still with us. Ugh

i actually do wonder why???

 

[Toga]

i actually do wonder why???

There's a story there. IDK what the story is but would suspect the prospect of litigation was involved.

 

[Shenexon]

There's a story there. IDK what the story is but would suspect the prospect of litigation was involved.

It seems like Steven would have a couple good issues himself. It seems odd to me that the DQ will stand despite the specialists' opinions. I'd think SU would do everything they can to keep him on the field given the cause of his issue was a poor SU medical decision in the first place. By making him transfer aren't they just increasing any harm that may have been caused? Doesn't that increase SU' s exposure?

 

[CuseLegacy]

There's a story there. IDK what the story is but would suspect the prospect of litigation was involved.

Possibly because they went to their own physician instead of being herded off to a doctor chosen by SU.

 

[orangepassion]

If Difino backed off his original recommendation as you said, not sure how Tucker can rationalize still keeping him out, considering he was basing it off Difino's recommendation

 

[Trueblue25]

Yeah I'm going to give Wildhack at least another 2 years before I feel comfortable saying this stuff's fully on him. I've been very pleased with his job here so far.

 

[AirForceOrange]

I believe that we should consider sending the administration a group correspondence.

Or a petition?

 

[bcubs9497]

If Difino backed off his original recommendation as you said, not sure how Tucker can rationalize still keeping him out, considering he was basing it off Difino's recommendation

He did. What you have at the end of all of this are 5 doctors (3 hematologists, WMU's team doc, and a vascular surgeon) all saying Steven can play, and Tucker (quite possibly with the backing of senior level admin) saying "screw you, anyways".

 

[Cusefan0307]

A letter to the editor at the post standard would be a good idea right about now...

 

[anomander]

Email sent!.

Reading the Kyle Knapp post further enrages me. It's time for something to be done. I am the last person I would ever thought would be emailing an AD, but in this case I think it is an absolute necessity and encourage others to take a few minutes to do the same.

 

[Newhouser]

The school does not care about what irks the fans. The University wants the benefits of being in a big time conference without committing to having success in said conferences, and please don't trot out cross country and soccer success. That is all well and good but this is about revenue generating sports (or sport - football) and right now the administration in and out of the athletic department has not shown a commitment or interest in anything other than cashing checks.

 

[Alsacs]

Yeah I'm going to give Wildhack at least another 2 years before I feel comfortable saying this stuff's fully on him. I've been very pleased with his job here so far.

Wildhack isn't the guy here. He has bosses.
His bosses are the ones that are at issue here.

 

[Dcuse]

Why are people blaming Wildhack? Can he remove Tucker? I see the Trueblue and Ringo posts above implying that he has control of this.
I honestly don't know and that's why I'm asking.

 

[AirForceOrange]

Start a chant at football games..."We want Clark"...

Protest at games with signs and chants...

I am sure the coaching staff and players would understand as they are probably pissed off about this as well...

 

[CuseLegacy]

Email sent!.

Reading the Kyle Knapp post further enrages me. It's time for something to be done. I am the last person I would ever thought would be emailing an AD, but in this case I think it is an absolute necessity and encourage others to take a few minutes to do the same.

No I am the very last person and mine went to the Chancellors' office.