re: My little cousin Greg Brooks road to recovery

This is the problem with equating sports success with university prestige.

"He's at LSU. One of the best colleges in the United States."

Sir, it is not. I encounter this all the time when I tell people I go to Boise State. "That's a good school!" It isn't. They have a decent football program. The school is dogshit academically.

This really sucks for Greg Brooks. I'm sure there are a lot of unsaid things in this video, but there's no way I'm trusting any person in this state to operate on me. Dallas and Houston are a short drive. Cleveland is a short flight.

The biggest issue is being told he had vertigo for over a month.

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then thing that got me..39 days?

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fricking nothing.

My daughter at five months old last April had persistent pneumonias. Her PCP made a referral to a pediatric pulmonologist and when contacted to schedule an appointment, they couldn’t get us in until August.

The appointment was scheduled when she was 5 months old, she would have been 10 months by then. In case math isn’t your strong suit, that’s roughly 150 days.

39 days from symptom onset to diagnosis and treatment should only “get you” as remarkable at how quickly it happened.

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The biggest issue is being told he had vertigo for over a month.

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hoof beats normally mean horses.

I feel for all those involved.


But in the era of NIL, Brooks could've easily gone to see a doctor on his own.

This doesn't excuse any of the parties, but just because you get sick at your day job, doesn't me that they can be held liable for you failing to go get a diagnosis on your own.

If his lawyer can establish that LSU FB gave him the brain cancer, then maybe he has a leg to stand on.

Best of luck to GB

In a reasonable world (not sure the legal system is that) I don’t think there is much of a case here. Did has complications from a brain tumor surgery. It sucks but it’s common.

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then thing that got me..39 days? Initially they said vertigo? The MONEY that LSU has, one would think they would treat these player {especially considering just how much Greg Gave to this Program} That pisses me off.

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I truly feel for Greg Brooks and his family.
it's really heart breaking what happened to him.

but be real about the situation.
any doctor anywhere on the planet always starts with the most likely diagnosis and works his way from there to least likely.

and literally every single article says that Brooks' tumor was an extremely rare one.

not even the greatest doctor in the history of TV/movies would jump directly to brain tumor on a college athlete in peak physical condition.

they simply won't jump straight to doing MRI/Cat Scans of the Brain until the eliminate all of the more likely causes for his symptoms first.

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I have searched many many times on news of Greg, even on the Sportsnet website. NOTHING. ZERO.

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you are aware that there are laws that prohibit people from broadcasting updates on people's personal health.
the only updates you'll get are the ones or his family release.

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They took for granted it wasn't serious, or likely treated it perhaps a mild concussion

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yeah, because a football player is almost infinitely more likely to have a concussion than he is to have a fricking brain tumor.

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Once there’s a lawsuit filed, yes.

If you work in a management position and a one of your former employees or clients was suing your employer, you would be ordered to avoid any contact with that person by the company’s legal team. Any lawyer will tell you that once legal action has been taken, the only communication between the parties after that should be going through the lawyers for both sides.

Any communication you make, however well meaning, could end up being used against you later in court. Your lawyers don’t want you accidentally saying something that you may think of as innocent conversation, but plaintiff’s lawyers twist it into making it seem like an admission of liability.

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So much this!

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It's lazy.

Pure and simple. If it happens once it's vertigo. When it's happening consistently even over the span of 10 days, you go get looked at.

It's no coincidence that people who have regular health checkups live longer than those who don't.

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None of us know anything.

The lawsuit is going to be written in a way that paints LSU in worst light.

There is a video floating around from 2023 preseason where Brooks says himself that he was treated for vertigo with meds and that everything was feeling better.

Obviously, symptoms returned which prompted the MRI and more serious diagnosis.

Lsu probably told BK to stop talking to him once they tries to sue Lsu. However. As a coach and a human being show some damn compassion for the kid. He was a baller. I was so excited when he transfered. Damn shame and I feel for the kid.

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Lsu probably told BK to stop talking to him once they tries to sue Lsu. However. As a coach and a human being show some damn compassion for the kid. He was a baller. I was so excited when he transfered. Damn shame and I feel for the kid.

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I feel for him too, but you have no idea when there was a clue that Brooks might file a claim or suit or had retained an attorney. If take the time to read the one sided petition (one sided just like the interview), it says he was transferred to Memphis in early October 2023. It also says that prior to that the family was already upset with the doctor (allegedly chosen by LSU). That's a big clue that a claim may be coming and when there is the slightest clue, parties do not communicate, period, and especially once counsel has been retained by the plaintiff. Parties cannot communicate directly after counsel has been retained. Ethics rules prohibit it. We don't know when Brooks retained counsel. I would imagine he was approached pretty quickly, though.

Lots of gullible people putting all their blocks into that orchestrated interview which was not the full story. We don't know the full story yet, but folks are critical anyway. They wanted their story out there and they knew the defendants would not respond to it. I suspect a change of venue request by the plaintiffs in the coming months. They'll want to avoid LSU fans is my guess.

The medical malpractice portion of this matter is before a Medical Review Panel proceeding, separate from this filing.