This is another area where the NCAA is frustrating. I don't mind players not getting paid but it seems the schools or NCAA could provide way better care of athletes after they leave school (for injuries incurred while playing sports for the school). We have so many 6 figure administrators and unreal facilities but once a kid is done playing they are on their own. Hopefully with all the news on concussions players will at least know the risk (I think all athletes know risk on knee injuries, etc. but probably didn't know about concussions long term impact until recently). Hopefully, we can find a way to limit concussions so we can keep watching the sport we all love.
From story:
Today, Arrington serves as an example of where football — and the NCAA in particular—stands on concussions, as awareness about the long-term consequences of head injuries continues to heighten. In five years, from 2009 to 2014, the NCAA reported a national estimate of 3,417 concussions in football. By contrast, when researchers at Harvard and Boston University surveyed 730 Football Championship Subdivision players in 2013, they found that only one in every 27 head injuries had been reported.
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Now, because of long-term damages wrought by his concussions, the 28-year-old is virtually unable to work. Worse still, his disability payments aren’t near enough to cover the more than $100,000 he has accrued medical bills.
“Those bills aren’t going to go away,” Arrington said. “My illness is not going to go away.”
Still, Arrington says he doesn’t hold a grudge against football, or even the NCAA. He merely wishes to use his own experience to help “prevent people from going through what I went through.”
http://www.si.com/thecauldron/2015/10/12/changes-coming-ncaa-college-football-concussion-protocol
From story:
Today, Arrington serves as an example of where football — and the NCAA in particular—stands on concussions, as awareness about the long-term consequences of head injuries continues to heighten. In five years, from 2009 to 2014, the NCAA reported a national estimate of 3,417 concussions in football. By contrast, when researchers at Harvard and Boston University surveyed 730 Football Championship Subdivision players in 2013, they found that only one in every 27 head injuries had been reported.
.....
Now, because of long-term damages wrought by his concussions, the 28-year-old is virtually unable to work. Worse still, his disability payments aren’t near enough to cover the more than $100,000 he has accrued medical bills.
“Those bills aren’t going to go away,” Arrington said. “My illness is not going to go away.”
Still, Arrington says he doesn’t hold a grudge against football, or even the NCAA. He merely wishes to use his own experience to help “prevent people from going through what I went through.”
http://www.si.com/thecauldron/2015/10/12/changes-coming-ncaa-college-football-concussion-protocol
