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Tim Beckman (you're fired!)

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dragurd said:
Odd timing since it was news over the summer but I guess it has to do with their investigation's timing. Show's they are serious about this though to fire him right before the season
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Illinois likely views this as a kind of windfall. They get to fire him w/o incurring the repercussions of buyouts etc.

dragurd said:
I'd say he's pretty untouchable right now. Potential lawsuits in play and then trying to influence the medical staff is a huge no no let alone trying to influence kids.
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Can you imagine him on the recruiting trail too? It doesn't seem like something he could defend, and it'd give others plenty of negative material.
 
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Disturbing details of Tim Beckman’s handling of injuries at Illinois released in report

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Former Illinois head coach Tim Beckman was bad at his job, but now we have more of an idea of just how clueless and irresponsible he was as well. The details of a thorough investigation into the injury management within the Illinois football program under Beckman were released Monday morning by the University of Illinois and the firm hired to conduct the investigation. According to the report, Beckman did not believe in hamstring injuries, perhaps one of the more common injuries in football for as long as he has been coaching. Beckman would also hurl derogatory names and insults to players for receiving assistance from athletic trainers in addition to pressuring trainers to clear players before they were ultimately ready to play again.
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Beckman came under fire for the way players with injuries were treated when complaints from former player Simon Cvijanovic popped up online. Cvijanovic suggested Beckman was a bully to injured players, and the report released today backs that up. Some conclusions made by the released report;

  • Coach Beckman attempted to instill a belief system in players to play through injuries and return too quickly from injuries to benefit the team by pressuring or influencing players not to report injuries or play through them;

  • Coach Beckman criticized players who sought medical treatment or were not playing because of injury with demeaning comments and other communication tactics

  • Coaches placed their medical judgment above that of physicians and led players to be misinformed regarding medical options and expected recovery time from injury

  • Coaches pressured athletic trainers to aggressively interpret physician diagnoses and player restrictions to return injured players to practice prematurely

  • Coaches influenced medical decisions in ways that prioritized the team over the individual player’s welfare

  • Delayed informing several redshirt juniors that they would not have a place on the football team after the fall 2014 semester

  • Pressured, harassed, and threatened such players to voluntarily relinquish their scholarships in December 2014

  • Retaliated against one player who challenged the requests that he not stay on campus through Spring 2015.
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The report is quite thorough, at 1,267 pages with all of the supporting documents. You can read the full report, if you have the time, here.

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...g-of-injuries-at-illinois-released-in-report/
 
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...-north-carolina-volunteer-assistant/89370502/

Tim Beckman steps down as North Carolina volunteer assistant
Dan Wolken, USA TODAY Sports
8:23 p.m. EDT August 25, 2016

One day after it became public that former Illinois coach Tim Beckman had joined North Carolina's staff as a volunteer assistant coach, he stepped down Thursday and said he did not want to be a distraction for the Tar Heels.

Beckman was fired prior to last season after allegations surrounding the way injured players were treated. A university-commissioned report from the Franczek Radelet law firm out of Chicago concluded that Beckman had acted inappropriately in "pressuring or influencing players not to report injuries or play through them" and that he had made demeaning comments about injured players as a motivational tactic.

North Carolina originally defended the move by saying Beckman would not be working with players, only analyzing film. Coach Larry Fedora, who worked with Beckman at Oklahoma State a decade ago, said Wednesday Beckman was fired because "the guy didn't win enough games."


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