News Article: Father of Greg Brooks Jr (LSU DB) Calls Out Brian Kelly on Good Morning America

[CB4]

As background, Brooks was the young man that transferred to LSU from Arkansas. The family is involved in a lawsuit with LSU concerning misdiagnosis/treatment of Brooks when he began to exhibit symptoms that later turned out to be a rare former of brain cancer.

From the article:

Brooks and his father said in an interview with Good Morning America that they have not received word from the LSU coaching staff, and Kelly in particular, since Oct. 2023.

"Specifically Brian Kelly," Brooks' father said. "My son almost lost his life, Coach. Where were you? Forget about football. Pick up the phone and say you love the kid, man."

LSU is going rue the day they hired this terrible human being.

https://247sports.com/article/greg-brooks-jrs-father-speaks-out-against-brian-kelly-lsu-amid-cancer-lawsuit-where-were-you-245210983/

 

[TideEngineer08]

Who could have foreseen this behavior from this man?

 

[Cruloc]

This guy just doesn't care....that's why he's killed a kid and apparently almost killed another.

 

[cdub55]

The only explanation that doesn't make CBK out to be a villain is he was not able to contact the young man and family due to the lawsuit. I highly doubt this was the case and CBK once again shows he is only concerned with what is best for himself and his own future.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

This guy just doesn't care....that's why he's killed a kid and apparently almost killed another.

Not defending Kelly, but how do you see what happened to this kid as Kelly's fault...?

He is definitely not sympathetic. He is most definitely pathetic.

 

[Cruloc]

Not defending Kelly, but how do you see what happened to this kid as Kelly's fault...?

He is definitely not sympathetic. He is most definitely pathetic.

The lawsuit filed last fall alleged that trainers misdiagnosed Brooks' cancer and that surgeon Brandon Gaynor left him with "catastrophic neurological injuries" that left him "permanently disabled" during the treatment. It also claims that LSU football coaches threatened his starting job and forced him to play through his illness, which he reported during Aug. practices ahead of the 2023 season.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

The lawsuit filed last fall alleged that trainers misdiagnosed Brooks' cancer and that surgeon Brandon Gaynor left him with "catastrophic neurological injuries" that left him "permanently disabled" during the treatment. It also claims that LSU football coaches threatened his starting job and forced him to play through his illness, which he reported during Aug. practices ahead of the 2023 season.

Gotcha, but that falls back more on the doctor than Krian Belly...

That is why doctor's have malpractice insurance...

 

[davefrat]

The lawsuit filed last fall alleged that trainers misdiagnosed Brooks' cancer and that surgeon Brandon Gaynor left him with "catastrophic neurological injuries" that left him "permanently disabled" during the treatment. It also claims that LSU football coaches threatened his starting job and forced him to play through his illness, which he reported during Aug. practices ahead of the 2023 season.

But if the trainers and doctors screwed up and gave the kid and the coaching staff bad information and the coaching staff relied upon that expert advice to the kid's detriment, as awful as it seems, I don't see how Kelly would be liable for any of it.

He's a jerk, but that doesn't necessarily translate into culpability.

 

[cdub55]

But if the trainers and doctors screwed up and gave the kid and the coaching staff bad information and the coaching staff relied upon that expert advice to the kid's detriment, as awful as it seems, I don't see how Kelly would be liable for any of it.

He's a jerk, but that doesn't necessarily translate into culpability.

Don't you worry a bit, he wiggle his way out of any accountability just like he does every Saturday when his team gets smoked.

 

[PA Tide Fan]

It doesn't surprise me. This is the guy that always throws his players under the bus after a loss.

 

[Bodhisattva]

If Brian Kelly spent as much time reaching out to a player with cancer as he does dancing with recruits and working on his Southern accent, he might become a decent human being.

 

[davefrat]

Don't you worry a bit, he wiggle his way out of any accountability just like he does every Saturday when his team gets smoked.

I make my living in the law dealing with liability issues on a daily basis.

Unless there's proof that Kelly knew or should have known that the advice from the medical experts was clearly wrong I don't see any realistic chance of any action against him going anywhere beyond summary judgment.

But there certainly could be things we don't know that could open that door.

And regardless, Kelly is still and always will be jerk...and that's being charitable.

 

[dWarriors88]

I mean would you expect anything more from a man that makes a kid go up a lift in high winds which resulted in the kids' untimely demise?

 

[CB4]

I think the “call out” of Kelly by Greg Brooks Sr. on national TV had more to do making sure people understand what a low life piece of garbage Kelly happens to be. While LSU, Kelly, LSU medical and training staff, Our Lady of the Medical Center and associated physicians with the case are named in the lawsuit, Brooks Sr. wanted to make sure people understand how Kelly and the coaching staff literally abandoned his son after the brain tumor/cancer diagnosis and surgery.

Think about it. The kid began experiencing symptoms in early August of 2023. It was 40 days later (September 2023) before they got him in front of neurology for a proper diagnosis. This lawsuit was filed in August 2024. And Kelly hasn’t spoken to them since October of 2023? Kelly thought enough to take Brooks as a transfer AND named him almost immediately as a team captain, but you don’t have enough respect for the kid and his family as they go through the post surgical and treatment difficulties to stay in contact with them?

That is as low as whale manure, and that sits on the bottom of the ocean.

 

[Cruloc]

If Brian Kelly spent as much time reaching out to a player with cancer as he does dancing with recruits and working on his Southern accent, he might become a decent human being.

It's about....Family