The Columbus Dispatch · May 12, 2015
Bob Hunter commentary: Twitter can give a voice to silenced athletes
Enlarge Image Request to buy this photoThe torrent of tweets from former Illinois offensive lineman Simon Cvijanovic on Sunday were enough to make any reasonable person squirm. They described a coaching staff that mishandled players’ injuries, demanded they play through them and berated those who didn’t.
Taken together, Cvijanovic’s allegations read like something from a bad football script, where a tyrannical coaching ogre with his cleats planted in the 1950s treats dedicated, hard-working players like captured spies in a prisoner-of-war camp before finally getting his whistle ripped off his chest and his, uh, clipboard handed to him.
