If a kid dies in football related drills for a Power 5 program, it is going to be a big story at some point. This finally got traction, maybe because the news cycle is slow, maybe because some like Dinich finally found 1-2 people willing to talk. Who knows.
And if a kid dies in football related drills for a Power 5 program, a number of people are going to go down with the ship, including some who had little to nothing to do with the episode. It's a pretty serious deal. Knowledge and resources around this stuff have advanced tremendously since Korey Stringer. It seems to be a bad set of circumstances, but it really shouldn't happen.
There is no direct comparable I can think of. But there are some corollaries to a story like this. For the workout itself the Iowa rhabdo issues from a few years ago comes to mind. For the death, the Notre Dame student helper getting blown off the scissor lift on a windy day comes to mind. And the cultural issues make me think back to Leach and Kevin Wilson.
The Iowa and Notre Dame staff's came out largely unscathed. Wilson and Leach obviously didn't. It seems counter-intuitive, but in the cases where there were serious health issues or death, the coaches survived. But in the cases of culture, bullying, etc., the coaches went down.
