[Scooter_Stepford]

Nah, that feels too facile to me. The writing's on the wall for football. It will be hit hard in the coming decades by increasing lack of participation at every youth level, including h.s. How many of us would encourage our sons to play h.s. football today, let alone allow them if they wanted to? How many of us would even blink if they instead wanted to play tennis, water polo, volleyball, baseball?

Not disputing your broad conclusion re: football, but...

This year, my niece suffered two concussions playing high school water polo.  Her brother played high school football.  He suffered none.

Plenty of concussions happen in volleyball.  Weren’t repeated concussions the reason the very talented Hodson left the Stanford program a few years ago?

[Scooter_Stepford]

Nah, that feels too facile to me. The writing's on the wall for football. It will be hit hard in the coming decades by increasing lack of participation at every youth level, including h.s. How many of us would encourage our sons to play h.s. football today, let alone allow them if they wanted to? How many of us would even blink if they instead wanted to play tennis, water polo, volleyball, baseball?

Not disputing your broad conclusion re: football, but...

This year, my niece suffered two concussions playing high school water polo.  Her brother played high school football.  He suffered none.

Plenty of concussions happen in volleyball.  Weren’t repeated concussions the reason the very talented Hodson left the Stanford program a few years ago?