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[JeanGuy]

Concussions are a difficult thing. You have athletes trying to game the system to trick the evaluator and you have some that are super honest. The super honest ones are tough to ever get cleared but one of the things is to be 100% symptom free. We had a kid when I coached Ice Hockey that would have been the all-time leading scorer but his senior year he got a concussion and wouldn't clear week after week. At the end of the season he had missed about 20 of our 35 games. It happened to Sidney Crosby as well.

 

I would rather that they error in favor of the athletes health than the athletes athletic goals. With the way the Dolphins screwed up with Tua this year it is only going to get worse and worse.

[TexRef]

4 hours ago, Formally140 said:

That sucks man, you’re in Illinois too right?

No

[MidwestMan]

Concussions are serious business, and I can speak from personal experience.  I grew up in the 60's in an era when getting "knocked out" in sports was simply a participation risk, and no one talked about the science or consequences.  My first concussion was a result of playing "backyard tackle football", which was common in a time when kids played sandlot baseball, and football on weekends, just picking teams and going at it.  My 2nd was a result of boxing in the backyard, also with neighborhood kids. (We had a pretty active/ aggressive neighborhood).  The first 2 were light concussions that I did not lose total conscious, but groggy and no recall.  My third was when I was 15, my first year of wrestling, and a result of a firemans carry that went off the mat and ended up with a head strike on the concrete floor.  That ended in a 3 day stay in the hospital.  I'm sure some of you are thinking, "What kind of parenting is going on in that family?"  Mom was single parent/divorced, and I was a handful to raise.  I'll leave it at that.  4th and 5th concussions while in college wrestling.  6th as a result of a street fight.  I was told I won the original fight, went back to apologize, got decked.  7th and 8th came later in life and resulted from crashing into trees, etc... from racing mountain bikes.  By the 60's time era I referenced, you can infer that I'm no spring chicken.  My biggest worry now is that my wife is eventually going to have to deal with someone with a diminished memory.  Every generation brags about how tough they were "back in the day!"  My hope is that our current generation is "wiser" as a result of the evidence provided from the emperical statistics, regarding head trauma.  The "School of Hard Knocks" can be a tough, sometimes traumatic, teacher.

[Pinnacle]

20 hours ago, JeanGuy said:

Concussions are a difficult thing. You have athletes trying to game the system to trick the evaluator and you have some that are super honest. The super honest ones are tough to ever get cleared but one of the things is to be 100% symptom free. We had a kid when I coached Ice Hockey that would have been the all-time leading scorer but his senior year he got a concussion and wouldn't clear week after week. At the end of the season he had missed about 20 of our 35 games. It happened to Sidney Crosby as well.

I would rather that they error in favor of the athletes health than the athletes athletic goals. With the way the Dolphins screwed up with Tua this year it is only going to get worse and worse.

Buddy of mine his daughter played college hockey at Vermont and she got a really bad concussion that affects her to this day and her injury was 4 years ago.