I think they don’t want to comment on anyone’s health status. That fits nicely with their default closed mouth approach.

Maybe HIPPA rules? Hope our guy is OK!

After doing some reading, it appears to be more of an issue with how the athletic department/team wants to disclose things. So part of it is the “keep the opponent guessing”, but as for reporting it seems the consensus approach is to keep it general, e.g., lower or upper body injury (I’ve heard that just recently while watching a game) with no detailed diagnosis/prognosis. The trainers need information from the doctors in order to treat athletes, and the coaches have to be in the know for personnel reasons and if they need to limit participation. The HIPPA part would be obtaining information from the health provider as I understand. Apparently players sign waivers so that information can flow from doctors to trainers, etc. So I think it has to do as much or more with the changing approach/norms of athletic departments and universities with being less open/detailed as HIPPA constraints which more directly relates to release of information from the health provider. I’ll ask my daughter-she’s a PA.

Your daughter probably can provide more nuanced information but I do know some people involved are under HIPAA and some are under FERPA, so the information ends up protected by both sometimes. Best way to not get sued might just be to say very little. And competitively, why tell your opponent who not to worry about preparing for this week? The student could release info, and I mean, it’s not like a sprained ankle is as embarrassing as hemorrhoids, but for future employment they may not want a laundry list of old injuries as their top Google result.

I happened to be sitting at an event with Dr Ray when someone asked what a player’s injury/prognosis was. He said he couldn’t say but ‘just check his instagram and you’ll know ‘

The only time I worked directly with student-athletes, one of the rules/requests from the training I remember was to keep it confidential if you even saw the student-athlete in a cast or limping or whatever during normal interactions. Obviously that's not something you can keep 100% secret because the injured athlete still has to attend classes and stuff, but it was clear there was a concerted effort to lock down on any injury information coming out of program, and I suspect that was either for ethical or competitive reasons or both, not for legal reasons since we're talking observations, not medical records

FCS Stats of interest

Aggie Total Offense #5 in the nation
Total Defense #2

3rd down conversion - #3
Completion % - #5
Net punting - #6
Passing Yds per completion - #34
Team Sacks - #11
Red Zone Offense - #37

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fcs/current/team/703

Defensive ranking is uncharted territory for us. Be efficient on offense, use all the weapons and hold on to the ball.....add that to shutdown defense and that’s a recipe for success

Blowout over Cal Poly affecting many of those #s. But yes, everything pointed in the right direction.

ISU FOOTBALL
ISU football's next opponent, UC Davis, turning heads in spring season

https://www.idahostatejournal.com/sports/isu-footballs-next-opponent-uc-davis-turning-heads-in-spring-season/article_d96e0526-8aa9-5ba8-9175-65a0e3b437e8.html

Game day! Go Ags!

Good luck today, although I don’t think you need much luck. Aggies look like a complete team.

I think that ISU's aerial attack will be challenging.

My wife and I will be driving from Joshua Tree to Tucson today and I'm hoping I'll be able to stream the radio broadcast stream. This could be a tough game. Go Ags!

The Bengals had a bye week so they’ll be ready

We can't let one game go to our heads. Poly will be back, EWU, and so will the Montanas.

Speckman short on CBS local.

https://cbsloc.al/3c8RjQH

I'm hoping for rust, not rest. Additionally they flew in via Allegiant so they definitely didn't have a comfortable trip, that's for sure.

Ive never flown with Allegiant, but my old neighbor was one of their captains, now retired. Isn't the CEO an Aggie alum?

Let’s get ready to rumble!

Honestly I think the home attire this year is really good, but I hope we still have the gold helmets in the rotation. Less important with few fans, fewer games, and no homecoming now, but hopefully in fall the classic look makes a comeback for at least a few games

Technically the blue helmets predate the gold ones :-).

Hey, what'd I miss re: Gilliam? Why's he out? Is that the HIPAA thing we're talking about?

Oh huh learn something new every day

Nice to have a mobile quarterback.

TOUCHDOWN HR

Gilliam out. Didn’t notice an injury last week. Maybe a bit banged up?

Was that announced? I totally missed it.

What a run! Touchdown Aggies!

First I heard of it was Marsh mentioning it on the first play when he noted Larrison was in

Idaho state going wide successfully.