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The HQ is well aware of what concussions and helmet-to-helmet contact have done to football players these days...
All you have to do is look...
On one side, you have OJ Brigance and Steve Gleason who are dealing with ALS and, on the other, there are all the deaths of football players who have been diagnosed with CTE.
One Texas state legislator is looking at the collision sport and trying to trim the number of contact practices even further...
Brownsville rep Eddie Lucio is putting a bill to the floor in the state house in Austin to restrict full contact practices to one per week.
“If you don’t allow (a) muscle or bone to heal, it’s going to break,” he told Ben Kamisar of the Austin Statesman. “The same thing is relative to the brain. It can only heal itself at a certain rate, and any additional hits could cause more damage.”
Coaches gave Kamisar alternating opinions:
"I’ve always felt like good coaching prevents those things,” Austin-Cedar Park (TX) head coach Joe Willis said. “…If you have one day (of full-contact practice), and you go out there with bad technique on that one day, you might get a concussion anyway.”
Lake Travis High School head coach Hank Carter said that his team already doesn’t tackle players to the ground during regular season practice to limit injuries.
The HQ will be interested to see where this goes...
Here's some analysis on the early changes in the UIL during last football season...
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