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Westminster College assistant coaches injured after four-floor fall

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Updated: January 13, 2009, 6:11 PM ET

Assistants crash through window

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Two assistant coaches apparently wrestling with each other fell through a hotel window Tuesday morning and fell four stories to a concrete sidewalk, leaving one in serious condition.

The American Football Coaches Association is holding its annual convention at the Opryland Hotel, and hotel security had been called around 4:10 a.m. with a noise complaint when officers found a broken window and Scott Coy and Darren DeMeio outside on the ground below.

"They wrestled each other too close to the window going through it and down to the ground floor," Nashville police spokeswoman Kris Mumford said. "That's four floors."

Coy, 29, is 6-foot-2 and 300 pounds from Newcastle, Pa. He was in critical condition and having surgery Tuesday afternoon at Vanderbilt University. DeMeio, 24, is 6-4, 225 pounds and from Clinton, Ohio. Police said he was in fair condition but remained in the hospital as of Tuesday afternoon.

Coy is co-offensive coordinator at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., and DeMeio is the running backs coach, according to the college's Web site. A telephone message left with the sports information office was not immediately returned Tuesday afternoon

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Hotel spokeswoman Kim Keelor said the window the men fell through was double-paned with a strong wooden sash in the middle.

"It's very sad. I definitely want to express our sympathy to their families. It's just a very strange and unfortunate occurrence," she said.

Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press

link: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3831034





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No disresepect to Coy and I hope he fully recovers from his injuries in record time.

But am I the only one that had the thought, on reading the article, "Hey, are we talking football coaches or rock musicians?" Wrecking hotel rooms and falling out of windows sounds more like something Led Zepplin or Motley Crue would have been associated with... :rolleyes:

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I was thinking that there are places to wrestle around, and places NOT to wrestle around. A tragic accident, no doubt, and I hope Coy and DeMeio fully recover.

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Wow, gay hijack by proxy! Good work! :lol:

Hey, I just posted the link that was sent to me by a female....

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Anyone else thinking Borat?

How can I look at your sig file and think Borat anything?

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