[Farm93]

The extra regulation will force all of the athletes to sit in seminars and courses.  That probably won't go over well as Frosh would need to sit in the Sacramento Training program.  Yawn. 

How many Stanford athletes get injured and then are told to hit the street?  Whatever rate it happens at today must be mighty small compared to the rate at Fresno State or SJSU.  Ironically, those schools appear set to be given a pass because they don't get all of this extra TV revenue.

And if that "they have money now" is the premise, then the rule will hurt all four schools.  The four Cali Pac-12 schools will be forced to spend money on a benefit healthy 16 & 17 year-old kids can't possibly appreciate or value correctly.  Big cost, big logistics burden, a benefit with little value to those that are injured, and a benefit with no perceived value for those that don't expect to get hurt (Almost All HS recruits).

I did note one line item about not being allowed to deny transfers.  That's probably nice for disgruntled athletes, but not helpful for the programs.  And what HS commits to a program they anticipate they will want to leave because they hate the school???

All together these problems are more common in the WAC and MWC programs.  I am not sure this effort would solve the problem and ironically it is getting applied to the schools without the problem because they have funds.  Getting forced to put funds into this effort places all Pac-12 Cali schools at a disadvantage.  Let's face it distributing iPad (as a place for to store and update the playbook  ;)) would be a far better recruiting tool than any complex government mandated health care protection policy.  And I would say that is true even if the HS athlete is actually concerned about injury, which is rarely the case.

If a football athlete is really THAT concerned about catastrophic injuries then they probably should just stop playing football.

Oh, and the fine folks working in Sacramento MUST have better things to do with their time. 

[Farm93]

The extra regulation will force all of the athletes to sit in seminars and courses.  That probably won't go over well as Frosh would need to sit in the Sacramento Training program.  Yawn. 

How many Stanford athletes get injured and then are told to hit the street?  Whatever rate it happens at today must be mighty small compared to the rate at Fresno State or SJSU.  Ironically, those schools appear set to be given a pass because they don't get all of this extra TV revenue.

And if that "they have money now" is the premise, then the rule will hurt all four schools.  The four Cali Pac-12 schools will be forced to spend money on a benefit healthy 16 & 17 year-old kids can't possibly appreciate or value correctly.  Big cost, big logistics burden, a benefit with little value to those that are injured, and a benefit with no perceived value for those that don't expect to get hurt (Almost All HS recruits).

I did note one line item about not being allowed to deny transfers.  That's probably nice for disgruntled athletes, but not helpful for the programs.  And what HS commits to a program they anticipate they will want to leave because they hate the school???

All together these problems are more common in the WAC and MWC programs.  I am not sure this effort would solve the problem and ironically it is getting applied to the schools without the problem because they have funds.  Getting forced to put funds into this effort places all Pac-12 Cali schools at a disadvantage.  Let's face it distributing iPad (as a place for to store and update the playbook  ;)) would be a far better recruiting tool than any complex government mandated health care protection policy.  And I would say that is true even if the HS athlete is actually concerned about injury, which is rarely the case.

If a football athlete is really THAT concerned about catastrophic injuries then they probably should just stop playing football.

Oh, and the fine folks working in Sacramento MUST have better things to do with their time.