Someone at Georgia State takes a shot at our softball team..

[Hector]

Click the link and read the second message down (Woody Paige). It's hard to believe there are people in this world low enough to make a comment like that after they say they are sorry that Tara was hurt.

http://www.caazone.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=28529

[D1Trojan4U]

The comment was not directed at Tara or any of the players, it was towards the coaches. I agree with his asking where the supervision was. I realize that the coaches are not parents, but how can you let your players risk injury doing flips in the batting cage?

[Trojanman]

His comment deserves no reply. Better his own board chastise him. Totally classless!

[faithintsu]

I agree with D1 on this, were where the coaches? Granted the guys comments about the coaching staff were off, but he makes a vlid point about exactly were the coaches were in regards to this.

[troymarkus]

And I probably won't. Dont need another reason to be angry. But let me say this. I've never liked our softball coach as a coach. She's good--had success--I just don't like her tactics or her style. Having said that--things happen no matter what. Just ask parents. The most over-protective parents have thing go wrong with their children. This is a freak thing and I just pray that Tara recovers fully.

[TROYgirl128]

I think that at this point, we're all adults and we're capable of making our own decisions. How many times might she have done the same flip and not gotten hurt? It's no different than say Keri Strugg in the Olympics a few years ago...how many times had she practiced that EXACT same vault? One time she lands wrong and BOOM...there goes the ankle. She did the EXACT same vault right after that and nailed it...bum ankle and all. I don't know for sure if Tara had ever done that kind of flip before. But, we can't all live in a bubble for the rest of our lives on the off-chance that this one time we're going to get hurt. Athletes take a risk everytime they step onto a field. We take a risk everytime we get in a car. We take a risk everytime we try something new.

I don't think we can blame the coaches. Should the girls have been playing around? Probably not. At the same time, how do we know that this isn't normal for them?

We, as humans, always look to blame SOMEONE...ANYONE. Sometimes, things just happen. It's not necessarily lack of supervision. I agree with the previous poster who said that sometimes things happen to the children of the most over-protective parents. Parents can't protect their kids from everything. Coaches can't protect their players from everything.

I think right now, the most important thing we can all do is pray for Tara and her family. Pray for the doctors whose care she is in. Pray for her teammates and her coaches who were there with her when it happened and have that image etched into their brains forever. I doubt they'll forget those images anytime soon. Thank God that she has feeling in her upper body. Pray that she has a full recovery. There's no reason to place blame. Blaming someone won't put her vertebra back together again. Pray for her.