re: Greg Brooks Jr's attorney reacts to BK rebuttal:

Anyone with common sense knows that if you're being sued that you cease contact with that person.

It's like Miranda rights: anything you say can and will be used against you.

Everyone needs to quit nitpicking over what CBK said/should have said.

I am pretty sure he is smart enough to have his statement cleared by his attorney.

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LSU needs to settle this lawsuit fast. This is getting ugly quick.

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Umm... that's why the family is doing this, to make LSU settle and pay on top of what they have already paid.

That lawyer has a lot to learn about endearing himself to the jury pool.
We all love Greg Brooks, but Greg is not gaining anything by having a loud mouthed lawyer pissing us off.

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BK's statement was clear as mud. "There by Greg's side" can easily be interpreted as physically there

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Again, I'll state the obvious - you're looking for absolutes in a statement by someone both professionally and personally involved in the situation. Misstatements aside, I think it's just as likely that BK meant "I was there by Greg's side for as long as I was allowed to be - by his family, by the doctors, by his physical proximity (until he was transferred to St. Judes) and finally by LSU's legal team".

And, again, WTF does it matter if BK was told by LSU to break off contact with Greg and his family? That's an insanely logical and likely situation as anyone remotely involved in litigation will tell you.

The fact that he didn't come out and say that up front could have many reasons - none of which have anything to do with the facts of the lawsuit. I can think of half a dozen valid reasons why BK would stop communicating with the Brooks family, and none of them have a damn thing to do with the factual basis of their lawsuit against LSU. So in the end, the smear campaign is nothing more than an attempt to make it as painful as possible for LSU and BK to defend themselves in court.

I, for one, will allow BK some grace unless and until facts prove otherwise. And by the same token, I'll continue to believe that Greg and his family were duped by a litigation attorney into thinking this would be a slam-dunk cash grab, easy money with no downside for anyone.

Whether or not I guessed correctly or poorly remains to be seen.

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LSU needs to tell the Brooks family to kick fricking rocks and be grateful for everything they’ve already done for them.

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I understand the sentiment, but that's probably not a good route to take. While it's outrageous that LSU is being sued for something that - to us outsiders and laymen - looks like a stupid case, there's still a human tragedy at the center of the picture.

IMO, it's far better for LSU to simply take the high road and - politely - pursue all legal defenses against the lawsuit. They don't need to feed into the slander campaign against them by acting exactly the way Greg's dad is accusing them of acting.

"A wise man once said: better to remain silent and let others think you a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt".

Let's have LSU be the bigger, better "person" in this conversation. Just my opinion, FWIW.

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No shite. LSU needs to settle

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But if he’d never set foot in an LSU locker room, he’d still have had this and who would his family have turned to for help?

And he very possibly wouldn’t have been diagnosed in 37 days.

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I don’t think you should have to sue LSU to get paid if you get hirt playing football. LSU should carry insurance on the players.

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It was a pre-existing condition you tard

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Still waiting…

I’m persuadable. Someone make it make sense

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To make it is as simple as possible - You talk to your attorney, and that is it. Your attorney will draft statements on your behalf or give you a script to recite. That is it.