This comment IS implying he isn't smart enough to make an informed decision because of emotion..
In the article it states he received a speech impediment from the concussion and had to start seeing a speech therapist.
My assumption would be no. We can fairly say thousands of players have suffered various levels of concussions playing division one athletics - some are hurt so bad they become paralyzed, people like Eric LeGrand. I can't remember any litigation towards the schools.
You can literally sue anyone for anything, although you aren't guaranteed to win. And NCAA rules have no bearing on whether the university is liable under the law. The NCAA is just an organization with no legal standing that I'm aware of. For the universities, the bad publicity and information revealed by a concussion lawsuit would likely be devastating. I'm guessing even the threat of a lawsuit gets a university to settle.
I have no actual knowledge of the subject, but I would be surprised if universities refused to allow players to even touch the field before having themsign some liability waiver that indemnified the university from all injury related lawsuits
Any contract can be challenged, even liability waivers. That doesn't mean the waiver wouldn't hold up in court, but the process to get to that point could be devastating to the NCAA/universities.
Who's Brock Lesnar?
Perhaps I should explain further - while, yes, you can literally sue anyone for anything these days, my point was that I think the schools are pretty well-protected as of right now based on their own policies.RedDenver said:
So, this is kind of why I said my assumption is 'no.' I don't think the litigation would go very far in today's current climate surrounding concussions, at least at the division one level. Unless people can unequivocally prove they never once received concussion related information then the university will be protected - the burden is on the proof, of course.
Yep, any contract can be challenged in court. But since the health ramifications of playing football are fairly well documented, there would need to be some hardcore shenanigans on the part of Universities in those waivers for them to be found at fault. It's clearly a choice by the players to put themselves at risk. I'm not going to say it would never happen, but it's pretty much never going to happen. Especially if you're talking 1 former player vs a university or the NCAA, then I doubt the lawsuit results would be devastating, as you put it. Universities and the NCAA would throw millions of dollars at a legal defense, which I doubt and injured player could match. Class action suit might be another thing, but that gets into an area I know even less about.RedDenver said:
