Thursday, October 23, 2008
Outside the Lines: Second Impact Syndrome
The best comment I hear in this video was the one at the end - If you can't afford to have a certified athletic trainer on site then you shouldn't have the sport." We would not allow the players to participate if we could not afford helmets - would we?
If we "the taxpayer" are going to pay JaQuan Waller's mother a couple million dollars (like she deserves yet will not be sufficient to replace her son) then we could have paid 35 years of an athletic trainer's salary at $57,000 per year. And just imagine, that ATC would be on site for other injuries also.
Love to hear your comments. Enjoy!
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atc,
athletic trainer,
athletic training,
concussion,
football,
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All I can say is Amen, Scott.
I posted this on my blog and quoted you.
Also, making 57k a year would blow my mind (in a good way).
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