Roll's take
A few days ago UCLA coach Ben Howland finally acknowledged wing Michael Roll was likely to red-shirt. But in describing Roll's ruptured plantar fascia in his left foot, Howland said Roll went with a doctor outside of UCLA to get a cortisone injection, and the coach added in his experiences at Pittsburgh such injections led to ruptures of the plantar fascia.
However, Roll said the injection was done by one of UCLA's team physicians.
"I didn't really know what a cortisone injection was, so I just asked my family doctor what it was, and talk to him about it,'' Roll said. "I never got the shot from him. I had it done by UCLA staff. I don't know where the other thing came from."
Roll said he never asked his family doctor whether or not he should get the injection.
uh oh. here comes Rollgate.
WOW. Brian, this is really scary. Does this mean Ben might be lying to protect UCLA from litigation, or is he honestly out of the loop or misinformed in this regard? Please. Please advise.
UCLA needs to start up the Bill Walton School of Podiatric Medicine.
This is news? You actually consider this newsworthy? Don't take your bone-headed loss to Notre Dame out on us.
Burbank Bruin,
I think the UCLA coach blaming a player's personal doctor for something, when it was really the school doctor administering the shot, is newsworthy. ...And if you think Rutgers' loss to Notre Dame had anything to do with what was written, you have no idea what I'm about. I know how to separate personal and professional.
Brian,
Where is the news in this? Please . . . . "blaming" the personal doctor - where in the quote attributed to Howland did he "blame" anyone? What I read what that he said in his experiences that it led to a rupture, and that he thought an outside doctor had done it. Where in there do you hear him saying "it was that outside doctor's fault". I don't see that in there at all. I see him simply commenting on something that was asked about - do you know if he, in fact, knows all of the details of the medical treatment given to every player on the team?
Give him a break, come on.
Sounds like sensationalism to me. Trying to create controversy where there is none.