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A jury Wednesday found in favor of a former Penn State athletics team doctor who claimed that he was removed as team physician in retaliation for complaining about head football coach James Franklin interfering with medical treatment and return-to-play decisions.

A Dauphin County jury in Harrisburg awarded orthopedic surgeon Dr. Scott Lynch $5.25 million in punitive and compensatory damages. Testimony during the seven-day trial included former Penn State players, doctors, athletic trainers, university system officials and others discussing examples of injuries and medical decisions.

Lynch said in a phone call with ESPN that he hopes the verdict will prompt an investigation by the NCAA, which has had a policy guaranteeing independence of sports medicine staff since 2016. "There's not yet been one school punished for violating medical autonomy issues," he said.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40242103/penn-state-scott-lynch-doctor-james-franklin-verdict

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  On 5/30/2024 at 2:53 PM, Truzzcat said:

Franklin is a good recruiter and figured head, an absolutely terrible in game coach. I wonder how this affects him moving forward if he's endangering players.

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I doubt it has much effect.  Under Franklin Penn State football is stuck in the second tier of the Big 10 and seems like it won't ever move to challenge Ohio State or Michigan.

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If Franklin isn't fired it's because they don't want to eat his outrageously huge contract. 

Glad the jury saw this the right way. Team physicians are obviously more capable in determining injuries, but they are also impartial. Coaches are mostly neither.

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  On 5/30/2024 at 2:55 PM, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

I doubt it has much effect.  Under Franklin Penn State football is stuck in the second tier of the Big 10 and seems like it won't ever move to challenge Ohio State or Michigan.

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PSU has always been mid-tier in the B10 in football, and I don't see them rising above that. Pennsylvania may be ripe wrestling ground, but the football up there is pretty "bleh". 

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  On 5/30/2024 at 2:43 PM, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

A jury Wednesday found in favor of a former Penn State athletics team doctor who claimed that he was removed as team physician in retaliation for complaining about head football coach James Franklin interfering with medical treatment and return-to-play decisions.

A Dauphin County jury in Harrisburg awarded orthopedic surgeon Dr. Scott Lynch $5.25 million in punitive and compensatory damages. Testimony during the seven-day trial included former Penn State players, doctors, athletic trainers, university system officials and others discussing examples of injuries and medical decisions.

Lynch said in a phone call with ESPN that he hopes the verdict will prompt an investigation by the NCAA, which has had a policy guaranteeing independence of sports medicine staff since 2016. "There's not yet been one school punished for violating medical autonomy issues," he said.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40242103/penn-state-scott-lynch-doctor-james-franklin-verdict

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The fact that Sanderson is so opposite from this is one of the reasons I appreciate and respect him so much.

He already lost one top-tier wrestler (Suriano) for holding him back from wrestling, when the wrestler wanted to compete.  Then he did it AGAIN with Starocci, leading him to rage quit (before reconsidering).

PSU wrestling will always have its detractors, but you're a parent of a top recruit, you're always going to know that in a world (and, apparently, in a university) that too often puts the will to win over the health and well-being of the wrestlers, Sanderson is the dead-eye opposite.

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