You started the process in high school… continue it in college! … and finish it altogether when you go professional…
[Y]ou see all those former players with CTE on television, or in person, and you can’t help but wonder if you might be among them someday, and you can’t help but ask yourself whether it’s worth the trade-off.
In the end, this is probably a good thing for professional football, at least in the short term. It is a young man’s game for a reason, but in the longer term, it does make you wonder if the NFL can ever stem the tide, as the players themselves become increasingly disposable. What happens if the game continues to be more and more compressed by its own violence?
On that compression idea: Maybe you’ll start to see players retire during their university years. The need for fresh blood will make freshman players a hot commodity, while juniors and seniors will be shunted into special on-campus hospital/retirement homes once they’ve gone gaga.
The plus for the university community will be an increase in student opportunities for Volunteer Points.
March 13th, 2015 at 9:42PM
well Nebraska already has new a brain damage research program in place to use them (while they are playing) as lab-rats so they will have some baselines already up and running for their post-play research subject roles, hell has more protections (at least on paper) than playing and who knows may even pay them something.