OT - Crist Injury and MSM Double Standard?

It was obvious he had been concussed, I know what I saw, and IME it was Kelly being a terrible coach and putting in a player that had no business playing.  Had Crist taken another big hit who knows what could have happened to him.

I thought we were boycotting WebMD??

When articles come out about players/former players with brain diseases from concussions, you would think coaches would be extra careful.  There should be a rule in place that if a player has a concussion they have to sit out the rest of the game and if it's a bad one (I think they grade them) that they have to sit out at least one to two weeks.

Look what happened to Owen Thomas from Penn: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5569329

he definitely had a concussion from what they said. A "Concussion" is a very broad term though. There are many different kinds and different severity's. With that said, any player having a concussion should not be coming back into the game that quickly....There is possibility of serious injury, which is not worth a "Win"(even though they didn't even win).

You mean like MGoBloggers whining about the MSM?

First, how does someone exhibit concussion symptoms but not have a concussion?

If a person is throwing up and feeling nauseous, they're exibiting flu symptoms. It doesn't mean they necessarily have the flu. Maybe they just spent the evening at Rick's.

where we don't have a lot of quantitative data or qualitative evidence to be able to say for sure that Rich Rodriguez would be getting severely questioned about a player's alleged concussion.

But do I believe that if Michigan had not scored in the last minute, and if the game had been lost and Denard Robinson had been allegedly concussed, would there be waves of criticism flowing from the Free Press and its ilk, all directed at Rich Rodriguez?

Yes.

As a side note, I do wonder sometimes about coverage of Michigan and Notre Dame, since every year the Detroit media know that in the week immediately following Michigan and ND, their attention automatically turns to... ND and Michigan State.  It is a week in which Michigan is ordinarily playing teams like UMass, EMU or our favorite non-conference opponenent; "bye."  And they want to build and hype the contest between Sparty and the Irish.

Of course, at one level, one might suggest that Brian Kelly deserves to be questioned for his handling of this situation and had Coach Rodriguez done the same, the same questions ought to be posed.  Fair is fair.  And that is hard to argue.

In any event, we know what an unfair propaganda organ the Free Press is when it comes to Rich Rodriguez.  I'll be content with dealing with the situation as it is, not as it might have been, and save my Freep criticisms for their actual, exposed biases and errors.  Which are aplenty.

fwiw, we did have a very brief "Rodriguez/concussion" discussion last when Carlos Brown was expected to sit fo the Iowa game.  (And didn't Tate get dinged late in that game too?)

http://mgoblog.com/content/carlos-brown-likely-out-against-iowa

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a concussed duck.  Period.

Let them be. If they want to risk their player health, so be it. If they continue to play players who have concussions it will catch up to them. Let the media do whatever they want, if something happens to one of those players, they'll turn on them. I prefer to have fewer supporters, it makes winning that much better. Plus it's a bigger FU to all that doubt.

Like I have said on another post, the blame for this has to also go to the medical staff who cleared him. Realistically if BK can say "he was medically cleared to play, I'm not a doctor," then nothing is going to happen to him if the kid goes back in and gets a serious injury.

... that since we no longer refer to the newspaper [NAME REDACTED] here, we also drop the use of "MSM."

I know what it refers to, it's inherently political and it makes the user appear like this:

Shame, shame on old Notre Dame.

Those aren't echos ringing in my brain.

Our QB can't see out of his right eye

Was that #16 in white again running by?

Is the concussion great or small

Our QB needs to go in or we will fall

While we will call 911

We are risking an emergency

When RR pulled Forcier last year at Iowa because he was talking in non sequiturs, the press lambasted him.  Also, they seemed to want Forcier back on the field quicker than the staff did. 

While I agree that it is possible (even probable) that football leads to head injuries, the examples we have seen fall victim to confirmation bias. We only look at the injuries of people  who 1.) Play football 2) Get head injuries.

How can they say they knew he did not have  a concussion?  Putting him back in that game flies in the face of all the reports coming out of current research on the subject.  I was pretty shocked when they said he was coming back - if the backups had done better you can bet he wouldn't have.  This is a black mark on Kelly IMO - with head injuries all error is supposed to be on the side of caution, not determined by the score of the game.