FORMER CENTRAL FLORIDA PLAYER QUESTIONS TREATMENT OF PLANCHER

ESPN’s Outside the Lines conducted an examination today of the death of Central Florida wide receiver Ereck Plancher, who collapsed during an off-season workout, and the report calls into question whether head coach George O’Leary took his players’ safety seriously enough.Specifically, former Central Florida running back James Jamison says the training staff didn’t come to Plancher’s aid quickly enough because they were intimidated by O’Leary.Jamison said he believes “they ran a player to death. ... Every step he [Plancher] took, he was about to fall over .. He was just, literally like everybody was looking at him ... pushing his body like past his limit. ... Coach is like, ‘That’s a bunch of BS, son,’ like, ‘I expect better from you,’ just dogging him ... I’m thinking, ‘Why you, why you getting on him? Everybody’s tired. Like, look around you.’"The Orlando Sentinel has reported that Plancher had collapsed twice after workouts in the months before he died, but Central Florida officials say they didn’t know that.Plancher’s family plans to sue the school. O’Leary refuses to comment.