Over the last five years, people can look at my responses and threads, and I have been as big of supporter on Brohm on this board as anyone. I have not joined discussions of Brohm needs to got, Brohm should not be our head coach, etc. This thread will not say anything about this. I just want to see what fans on here say about the way he answers questions without answering questions. I guess the lack of information on David Bell is what finally got me to write this thread.
Let me say I completely understand about HIPAA, giving families privacy on certain information, etc. However, when you have young adults playing in a national stage and in the public eye, you have to give the fans and others some information. We saw a fan favorite go down motionless and unresponsive. There has been no information at all what happened to him, is he going to be ok, etc. I think the Gold & Black Saturday night conversation video did mentioned that David was able to walk around by himself. However, a lot of people don't watch those videos. I don't know about other fans, but for a while I wondered if David could have been partially paralyzed. I am not saying release his entire medical record from Saturday afternoon, but can you give us something?
This is one thing that Brohm seems to be getting worse out each year. We saw the same thing with Rondale Moore in his sophomore year. We went weeks thinking it was his knee. There was never any news ever said about anything going on with him. Everyone just had to speculate I think it finally came out weeks later that it was his hamstring. I had seen some articles the day before the ND game that Trice was not going to play, because he got hurt somehow in practice this week. Well, what happened and how long will he out? No, information was released on this, except that it might be some time before we have Trice back. Again, vague as it can be. I really am surprised that they gave out as much information on Horvath as they did. That is the exception, not the rule.
It is not just injuries that I am referring to with this. It is the same thing when reporters ask just basic questions. I also heard this during the G&B Saturday video where they asked why AOC was brought in. There never seemed to be an explanation to that question from what I heard. Brohm was asked if Plummer was still the starting QB. He answer that question with he was still the number one guy, but we have multiple capable options at QB. Well, you answered the question, but you didn't really answer the question. Does that mean that we are going to start Plummer, play AOC in the second quarter, play Burton in the third and finish up with Alaimo then? It is not like there is not a lot of tape of both Plummer and AOC, so we are not keeping team guessing on our game plan. It really boils down to the fact that he really does not want to answer the questions. However, that is part of the job. You might not like that part of the job, but it is still a part of it.
I really have not seen the vast number of coaches in the pros or colleges be so quiet and elusive on just basic questions. Am I the only one bothered by this consistently and constantly on questions? Am I making it a bigger deal that it really is, and others don't seem to mind? Just curious what other fans on this board feel on this.
