Parents angry as Texas football practice sends students to hospital

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2. Why are they working this hard now?

I played HS football in South Florida and we began workouts in January, but nowhere near this intense. Our workouts included weightlifting and running with coaches supervising, but not forcing. Our workouts were scheduled early morning before classes began.

What's described is something you're more likely to see during Two- (or in my case Three-) a-Day practices in August. Even then, we never did anything close to 400 push-ups and we were ALWAYS given access to water.

I agree the coach needs to be fired and potentially charged with child endangerment (if Texas still has that charge on its lawbooks).