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Message: [QUOTE="Sargassoc, post: 4389837, member: 826"] I respectfully disagree. I think that colleges will start to see the long-term (financial) effects of CTE (lawsuits) and start to scale back. Once that happens, the NFL is next. There are some worrisome statistics that speak to the dangers of playing college and professional football: [I]“For every year of absorbing the pounding and repeated head collisions that come with playing American tackle football, a person’s risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a devastating neurodegenerative disease, increases by 30 percent. . . While we don’t yet know the absolute risk of developing CTE among American football players, we now can quantify that each year of play increases the odds of developing CTE by 30 percent,” says lead author [URL='https://profiles.bu.edu/Jesse.Mez']Jesse Mez[/URL], a MED assistant professor, director of BU’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center Clinical Core, and a CTE Center researcher. “We hope that these findings will guide players, family members, and physicians in making informed decisions regarding play.” [/I][URL='https://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/cte-football/']SOURCE[/URL] From that same study, researchers studied the brains of 202 deceased football players, including 111 who were former NFL players. And 48 out of the 53 college football players (91%) were posthumously diagnosed with CTE. I don't think this is long-term sustainable for universities, even counting the NCAA payoff. [ATTACH type="full"]79203[/ATTACH] [URL='https://www.clearvuehealth.com/cte/football/']SOURCE[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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