The amount of ignorance in this thread by a few posters is amusing.
I am very, very closely connected to the medical staff of a Big 12 school. I know exactly how the entire process works in great detail. While I can't claim the exact same specific knowledge for Syracuse, I can't imagine it is all that different. The head team doctor at this Big 12 school is a family practitioner, just like Dr. Tucker. He, along with the athletic trainers and the rest of the medical staff, see to the medical needs of the 500 some odd student athletes on the various teams. Ailments range from managing allergies to sports injuries to psychological episodes. Some posters may even be interested to know that this school brings in a ob/gyn every other week to attend to particular issues the female athletes have come up.
Inevitably, in the care of several hundred human beings playing high level sports, more serious injuries come up, including (but not limited to) concussions. In those situations, where greater expertise is required, there are referrals. This particular school works with one particular network of hospitals, and gets concierge level service - meaning appointments are made quickly and the athletes are seen by the best as quickly as possible. The doctors confer, but the consulting doctors give opinions related to their specialties and their findings. It isn't their business to make judgment calls on a particular athlete, only to relate findings. The team doctor can and will confer and ask questions, and upon taking the information from the findings of the specialist, it is his job to translate that into a particular course of action. This is not controversial, despite the pathetic and paranoid attempts by some posters to justify a (rightful) lack of information evidence of some kind of clown shoes medical operation on the part of the University.
Just in the last year or two I can think of disqualification based on information from cardiologists related to concerning family history on a heart exam, disqualification related to various mental illnesses, and yes, several concussion related ones, including at least one last year where the student athletes was DQ'ed at this school, but transferred to continue playing at another. There was a ton of behind the scenes paperwork, medical releases, and communication with the medical staff of the school the athlete was transferring to.
Hope this sheds some light on things, even if it isn't specific to Syracuse. Nothing in what I've read or seen with Dr. Tucker or Syracuse University suggests to me that it is amateur hour going on over there.
