Sharing injury news of this sort is a direct violation of HIPPA laws. There are no if's, and's or but's about it. It is a federal law, and it was clearly broken.
That artice is just downright SCANDELOUS! :shock: :shock: :shock: And the talk of disclosing "injuries for money" (ok, maybe it's not as simple as that, but you get the idea of how the media is going to go with it) just goes on to further reinforce what many of us in Alabama have known for a while about that person. Talk about a souless dog. That's what Dennis Franshione is. And can you just imagine how the players are going to react when all of this sinks in? Not to mention if more of this type thing comes out. We all know that athletes are subject to a certain amount of criticism. That's just part of the game and the athlete understands that, even at the lower levels of competition. Performance, or lack thereof, determines perception and opinion. Players understand that coaches and fans will form opinions of their ability. But players also expect that the opinions of their coaches would, to a large degree, be witheld from outsiders. IMHO what Franchione was doing here was a blatant violation of the player/coach agreement. For Franchione to be offering up this information behind
HIS players' backs in something akin to a gun for hire or mercenary-type environment, is nothing short of a character indictment on Dennis Franchione, which further demonstrates his complete lack of ethics or regard for anyone but himself.
If Franchione still had the players at TAM up until the point and time this article came out, he may have just dug his own grave. This is bad stuff here, even by Franchione's standards. Not nessesarily the content of what was said, because a lot of it was fairly mild. But it's the betrayal of trust.
This is really bad stuff, and we're only talking ethics here. We havent even gotten in to all of the legal conciquences of these actions.
