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Message: [QUOTE="leftytg, post: 1959482, member: 2651"] there is no fundamental right to play football. There is no fundamental right to go into the military. The military frequently disqualifies people for health related reasons. I know you put the disclaimer in your post that you are very progressive when it comes to player safety, but the rest of your post undermines your assertion. You are more worried about Babers' reaction and how hard it would be for a fan than you are for Dungey's long term health. To one who is truly "progressive" about player safety, a coach's or fan's feeling of frustration at losing a good player never even enters the discussion. We're all fans here of a barbaric sport. The last few decades have brought on steroids, hgh, and other ped's such that players are unnaturally big and fast, to a degree never seen on the planet. There is a strong team culture of having to play through injuries, and of hitting the other team as hard - and as debilitating - as possible, all while the fan lauds the toughness and ooohs and aaahhs at the huge hits. But now enough time is passing where we're seeing the after effects on the players and what the sport does to them, and it is horrifying. A player shouldn't have to give up decades of life expectancy and basic quality of life to entertain us. Yet, here I am watching Syracuse every Saturday and watching the NFL on Sunday. I have to reconcile that. We all have to reconcile that. I'm not a doctor and I have no opinion on what is right for Dungey. I don't know enough. But I do want Dungey to be able to play with his grandkids. There is a small, but growing, part of me that wants him to quit before it is too late. Sometimes I'm ashamed at how small of a part of me that is. I am very closely connected with the medical staff at a Big 12 school. The team doctor there just had to medically disquality a student athlete on the rowing team for persistently having too low of a BMI (anorexia issues). It was gut wrenching, but it was in the student athlete's best interest. Things like this happen frequently across all sports, and the doctors play a very important role in looking out for the long term best interest of their student athletes, a subset of people who almost by definition are very competitive and terrible at understanding risk. It most definitely is not a violation of anyone's "fundamental right". [/QUOTE]

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