2008 Woodie Awards
FOOTBALL: T.I.S. starts selling Love shirts
T-shirt profits go to new Love charity started on Friday
Ryan Wood
Watching Ball State University's football team during the past four weeks, T.I.S. store manager Pam Suminski planned to sell Cardinal T-shirts to feed the growing excitement among the student body.
Then Ball State receiver Dante Love suffered a devastating injury, and her plans changed.
When Love was injured with a cervical spine fracture last weekend at Indiana University, Suminski thought of ways she could help out one of Ball State's most famous students. After speaking to one of her employees, Suminski decided to sell T-shirts and send all proceeds to the recently created Dante Love Medical and Rehabilitation Fund at MutualBank.
"We benefit directly from the student body of the university," Suminski said. "So to not do something, I just don't think would've been right at all to ignore this."
Athletics director Tom Collins announced Friday that Love's family will not have to pay for any medical bills from his time at Bloomington or Methodist hospitals. The insurance policies will also cover charges incurred by Love's time at a rehabilitation center in Indianapolis.
The university will pay the first $75,000, Collins said. After that cap has been reached, Collins said, the NCAA has a Catastrophic Policy that will cover the remainder of Love's medical expenses.
"The family is going to have some expenses in this process here," Collins said. "But everything with Dante, until he is released, is all covered by insurance. Until he gets done with rehab, that's all covered by Ball State and the NCAA."
Collins said the two insurance policies do not cover non-medical expenses, such as the gas and hotel costs Love's family will spend while he recovers. Collins set up the Dante Love Medical and Rehabilitation Fund at MutualBank so Love's family would not suffer financially as the senior recovered from his injury.
"As we figured out what things aren't covered by insurance, we went about internally to make sure things would still be covered," Collins said.
Then Ball State receiver Dante Love suffered a devastating injury, and her plans changed.
When Love was injured with a cervical spine fracture last weekend at Indiana University, Suminski thought of ways she could help out one of Ball State's most famous students. After speaking to one of her employees, Suminski decided to sell T-shirts and send all proceeds to the recently created Dante Love Medical and Rehabilitation Fund at MutualBank.
"We benefit directly from the student body of the university," Suminski said. "So to not do something, I just don't think would've been right at all to ignore this."
Athletics director Tom Collins announced Friday that Love's family will not have to pay for any medical bills from his time at Bloomington or Methodist hospitals. The insurance policies will also cover charges incurred by Love's time at a rehabilitation center in Indianapolis.
The university will pay the first $75,000, Collins said. After that cap has been reached, Collins said, the NCAA has a Catastrophic Policy that will cover the remainder of Love's medical expenses.
"The family is going to have some expenses in this process here," Collins said. "But everything with Dante, until he is released, is all covered by insurance. Until he gets done with rehab, that's all covered by Ball State and the NCAA."
Collins said the two insurance policies do not cover non-medical expenses, such as the gas and hotel costs Love's family will spend while he recovers. Collins set up the Dante Love Medical and Rehabilitation Fund at MutualBank so Love's family would not suffer financially as the senior recovered from his injury.
"As we figured out what things aren't covered by insurance, we went about internally to make sure things would still be covered," Collins said.
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Bob Stewart
posted 10/05/08 @ 1:08 PM EST
I want to know where I can but the Dante Love shirts? Also, if anywhere sells Ball State replica game Jerseys?
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