Not For Luke

[New Mexican Disaster]

I still don't get it, Luke complains so much and he is so jaded towards byu. But he allows both of his boys to play tackle football. In fact he has them in tackle leagues as early as 3rd grade when they could still play flag football for 5 more years.


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His feelings are toward BYU are unfortunate but pretty natural.

[Jeff Lebowski]

His feelings are toward BYU are unfortunate but pretty natural.

Natural in what way?

[wuapinmon]

I have never bought the line "That Doc is an asshole with terrible bedside manner but don't worry about it because he's an amazing surgeon."

In my experience the best surgeons are also nice people. These are pervasive personality characteristics and it blows my mind that people somehow think a doctor who who is rude, insecure-acting, and defensive outside the OR could then be this awesome surgeon. That split-personality thing doesn't happen very often.

B-b-b-b-b-but, I watched House.

[New Mexican Disaster]

Natural in what way?

I think he feels that he got bad advice during his time there. Most people in the same situation would probably feel the same way.

[CardiacCoug]

I still don't get it, Luke complains so much and he is so jaded towards byu. But he allows both of his boys to play tackle football. In fact he has them in tackle leagues as early as 3rd grade when they could still play flag football for 5 more years.


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Yup I could understand being mad at the doctor but not at BYU since I'm sure that BYU has never exerted any pressure on the docs to make kids play hurt or anything like that.

It's kind of an interesting question about what kind of orthopedic surgeon to have treating the players.

Makes sense sort of to have a "volunteer" doc like Kimball with no financial compensation from BYU at all. That way he can say he is totally independent and not controlled by BYU.

However the type of Superfan Orthopedist that that kind of arrangement attracts would be the type of Doc who wants BYU to win and might occasionally put his short-term desire to win ahead of a kid's long-term health.

Might be good to instead have some nerdy non-American Doc who couldn't care less about football, doesn't even know the rules, to give some totally unbiased medical advice.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

It doesn't hurt that Kimball's dad is the biggest BYU athletics donor. Doesn't put the school in a bad position at all.

[All-American]

Yup I could understand being mad at the doctor but not at BYU since I'm sure that BYU has never exerted any pressure on the docs to make kids play hurt or anything like that.

It's kind of an interesting question about what kind of orthopedic surgeon to have treating the players.

Makes sense sort of to have a "volunteer" doc like Kimball with no financial compensation from BYU at all. That way he can say he is totally independent and not controlled by BYU.

However the type of Superfan Orthopedist that that kind of arrangement attracts would be the type of Doc who wants BYU to win and might occasionally put his short-term desire to win ahead of a kid's long-term health.

Might be good to instead have some nerdy non-American Doc who couldn't care less about football, doesn't even know the rules, to give some totally unbiased medical advice.

Also, he should have no medical training. You know, to make sure he is not biased by privileged educators.

[All-American]

Natural in what way?

He married a woman.

[Jeff Lebowski]

He married a woman.

OK. That makes sense.

[SeattleUte]

I wonder how his "eye popping" stats would have changed had he played against respectable competition.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I wonder how his "eye popping" stats would have changed had he played against respectable competition.

[SeattleUte]

Utah was a bad team. Utah's football tradition began in 2003.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Utah was a bad team. Utah's football tradition began in 2003.

Playing in the MWC? How is that possible?

[All-American]

I wonder how his "eye popping" stats would have changed had he played against respectable competition.

Not our fault Utah wasn't any darn good.