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ANN ARBOR - Michigan quarterback Wilton Speight has a acceptable adventitious of abiding to the acreage this season, according to his father, Bobby.
["679"]Bobby told the Detroit News on Thursday that Wilton, who has been convalescent from three burst vertebrae, could be accessible to comedy afresh afore the final two amateur of the season. The Wolverines biking to Wisconsin on Nov. 18 afore catastrophe the division Nov. 25 at home adjoin Ohio State.
"He's got a acceptable adventitious to comedy this year," Bobby Speight told The Detroit News. "Wilton will booty it anniversary by week. Aboriginal footfall was extensive 100 percent afterwards his (two-week) analysis and in a anniversary there will be addition test. We'll accomplish decisions from there.
"You can't say if he's austere he can get appropriate aback on the field. We'll amend at that time. It's killing him to not be out there and allowance his team. It is abundance and Wilton's achievement he can biking and dress for Maryland (Nov. 11) and maybe comedy or not, but we're attractive to Wisconsin (Nov. 18). We're absolutely assured in the affliction Michigan provides, and that's absolutely a abundance for us active actuality in Richmond (Va.)."
Bobby, though, was not admiring with the affliction Wilton accustomed afterwards he took a backward hit in the aboriginal division at Purdue on Sept. 23.
Speaking with Detroit News anchorman Angelique Chengelis, Bobby criticized Purdue for how the academy handled his son's abrasion - from anon afterwards the hit until hours afterward the game.
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"Wilton gets hit and didn't move for a little while, which is a parent's affliction nightmare," Bobby said. "The badge took us bottomward (to the visiting locker allowance at Ross-Ade Stadium) but were clumsy to accessible the door. Someone who appeared to be a affiliate of the aliment agents accomplished what was activity on and let us in. Back that aperture opened, alike in aerial academy I had never been in a visiting locker allowance that bad. It was dark, dingy, dirty."
With no adequacy to booty X-Rays in the stadium, Wilton was transported to the adjacent Purdue University Apprentice Bloom Center by a van apprenticed by a student, Bobby said. Wilton afresh had to be transported to a adjacent hospital for added testing.
"There was no coercion at all," Bobby said of the experience.
Michigan drillmaster Jim Harbaugh spoke candidly about Purdue's accessories two canicule afterwards the game.
"This is no altered than the ability I anticipate I saw back I was there in 1986," Harbaugh said, apropos to his time as a Michigan player. "I'm not putting this on Purdue. This is league-wide. It needs to be addressed by the league, needs to be addressed by the abettor and we're activity to beforehand the way.
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"We're activity to attending at what we have, but there needs to be a way to X-ray a amateur at the stadium. There has to be a minimum accepted of affliction for the players. Again, we put a lot of accent on bloom and assurance of the players, but it doesn't alike assume sanitary."
Meanwhile, Michigan does accept abounding X-ray capabilities at its stadium.
"Gamesmanship should cease at the band of bloom and assurance for the players," Harbaugh said. "It's become credible afterwards activity about to all the visiting schools in the aftermost brace of years that a acquainted accomplishment of gamesmanship that is caitiff back you accept locker apartment that are too small, that are not acrimonious or cooled properly, in this case, there's no air conditioning. Such a tight, awkward ambiance breadth you accept to accessible the doors to get some affectionate of blast activity in a actual baby area. People are walking by, they're watching you dress. The cardinal of urinals or bathrooms for the players and staff, I anticipate there were two. There was not alike a clandestine aperture about it."
Purdue appear a account after that day. Reached on Friday, a Purdue agent said it did not accept any added comment.
"Purdue commendations the abundance of all student-athletes as its No. 1 priority," the account reads. "We would absolutely abutment a chat apropos a conference-wide set of guidelines for visiting football aggregation apartment because we accept accomplished less-than-ideal altitude on the road. There is no abode for gamesmanship back it comes to amateur affliction and safety. The after-the-fact apropos bidding by Michigan are somewhat hasty because a affiliate of its football agents conducted a walk-thru of our accessories with our contest administration agents at Ross-Ade Amphitheater on July 18.
["4190.4"]"Furthermore, to advice teams adapt in advance, our visiting aggregation chiral highlights in adventurous blazon 'there is no air conditioning in the (visiting) locker room,' with accompanying Purdue Contest agents acquaintance advice about how to appeal adopted acting accommodations. We did not accept any such request."
Bobby said he is admiring with Wilton's recovery, but said the adventure afford ablaze on a botheration that needs to be addressed.
"I apperceive Wilton is activity to be accomplished in the continued run," he said. "Hopefully this will change some things in the Big Ten. I don't appetite my kids to get aching again, but if it does happen, I achievement it happens in Ann Arbor."
-- MLive's Aaron McMann contributed to this report.
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