University Of Maryland Accepts Responsibility For Football Player’s Death

University of Maryland President Wallace Loh admitted at a news conference on Tuesday that the school’s athletic training staff “misdiagnosed” the collapse of a 19-year-old football player and that their failures led to his death weeks later.

Loh said he apologized to Jordan McNair’s parents in a private meeting Tuesday morning for the team’s mishandling of their son’s medical needs.

“I wanted them to hear it directly from me this morning — the university accepts legal and moral responsibility for the mistakes that our training staff made on that fateful workout day of May the 29th, which of course led subsequently to his death on June 13,” Loh told reporters.