I think it's a fair point that people who are adults and make the decision to play the game and suffer the physical and mental toll will be the ones that play. That's already how it is. But with people abandoning football because of it, how can the sport continue without addressing some of the realities of the damage the game intrinsically does to your body?

For example, my parents would never let me play growing up and I'm sure I won't let my kids, even though I love the game.

There's a large philosophical question for the sport as well though, which is, what defines football as a entity, and what sacrafices can be made to perpetuate it without damaging the nature of the sport? e.g. Southpark's Sarcastiball.

I'm fairly new to trying to follow MBB recruiting or really just College Basketball Recruiting in general, so my knowledge of Izzo is pretty low.

I've always gotten the impression that he is heavily on the Disrepekt train, but I never have gotten a seedy or dirty impression from him

What makes people describe him as such? (apart from the fact that I get the general impression that State's player are somewhat... less... savory characters than ours)

And I know it's naive to think that this is how it will be moving forward, but it sure feels like we're returning to this philosophy.