Yesterday, we posted about the untimely death of Ereck Plancher, a red-shirt freshman wide receiver for the University of Central Florida. Thanks to the Wizard of Odds, we have some more details:

Central Florida trainers administered CPR and then attached a defibrillator to Plancher’s body to try and shock his heart back into rhythm. Emergency medical personnel arrived and Plancher was loaded into a waiting ambulance.

But Plancher didn’t make it. He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital.

“Distraught is not the word for coach [George] O’Leary right now,” athletic department spokesman Joe Hornstein told the Orlando Sentinel. “He’s devastated.”

At the UCF athletic site, O’Leary continued:

“Ereck was a tremendous young man with a bright future. The entire UCF football family is saddened by the loss of Ereck,” said head coach George O’Leary. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family at this truly difficult time.”

As do ours.

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