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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Things need to change but I don't think getting rid of football is it.

Here is an article about reducing concussions in the Ivy league with a rule change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/sports/ncaafootball/ivy-league-football-concussions.html

Google "ivy reduce concussions" if you can't read NYT.

[b]Also, no NFL players die during games or practice. But HS and college players do, why? Because the coaches suck, we need coaches to be well trained and regulated and when harsh/unhealthy treatment is obvious there is a way to report it.[/b]

People have reported coaches and the school has said, they are contract employees and don't fall under the code of conduct of teachers... that is BS. [/quote]

While coaching/trainers is definitely cause, this is also in the context that the physical size disparity in HS versus the disparity in the NFL.  In the NFL, it's "fair game" for a defensive tackle to tackle a running back; while on the HS level, if you're talking about a defensive tackle that already has the chops of an elite athlete to make it to the college level versus an average joe running back...[/quote]

Actually, the PP is correct. More high school and college players die of heart attacks and other forms of exhaustion than from injury caused by playing; this does not happen in the NFL, because the NFL long ago absorbed the lessons of proper hydration and rest periods. The Marines even do this, ffs. And yet we still see 2-a-days and -puking-is-good coaching on the high school and college level.[/quote]

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