OT: Newsflash! NCAA Athletic Trainers Feel Pressure From Coaches

[j66kicker]

- 19% Of trainers said coaches played a player not medically cleared to play.
- 25% Said they didn't feel they had medical autonomy.
- Only 52% said their programs follow the NCAA-legislated independent "medical model" of care.
- 36% Said coaches influenced the hiring and firing of sports medicine staff.
- 58% Of that 36% said they got pressure from a coach or administrator for a medical decision not in the best interest of a student-athlete's health.

Survey: NCAA coaches' clout concerns trainers

New survey results from the National Athletic Trainers' Association disclose multiple issues with coaches' influencing medical decision-making.

www.espn.com

 

[triaddukefan]

<----- Looks east down Interstate 40 towards a certain school located in a town with the initials C.H.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Sigh. Recruiting scandals. Academic scandals. Now this. I try really hard to believe that college athletics is a worthy endeavor. Some days it doesn't work so well.

 

[Ozimoto]

And we all know what the Maryland football team went through a year ago...