One of the most important items to come out of Destin, Fla., on Tuesday at the SEC meetings was the league’s mandate of an “independent medical observer” at each football game beginning this fall, another step taken to ensure players are properly evaluated after possible head injuries.
Team personnel will continue to track such occurrences during games, but an additional observer with a bird’s eye view focused squarely on helmet-to-helmet hits provides greater insight at preventing serious injuries from reoccurring following a violent play.
“We’ll put a trained medical person up in the replay booth,” Mike Slive said Tuesday according to the AJC. “It will give us another check in the event that on the field a team doesn’t see someone who may have had a head injury. Most of the time, the sideline picks up those kind of things, but just in case they don’t … we’re doing everything we can to protect the health and safety of our students.”
