ACC media days are going on this week and the conference is making exciting changes to ensure the safety and wellbeing of its players on the football field.
ACC commissioner John Swofford, announced Monday that each ACC team will have medical observers in the booth during games this fall.
”This team-specific medical observer will have the benefit of knowing the medical history of the players, because it will be somebody who is involved with them on an ongoing and day-to-day basis,” Swofford said
The medical observers will follow league-approved procedures that have been voted on by each school’s athletic director. They will not have the power to stop a game, but will be able to communicate with someone on the sideline to check on the medical status of a player if there is a concern.
”This is all experimental,” Swofford explained. ”So we’ll see how it actually works in real time, and if there needs to be some adjustment to that, then we’ll see in future years.”
You have to wonder why a policy like this was not already in place for the ACC, but at least they seem to be getting it right now.
Don’t be surprised to see other conferences moving to a safety format like this real soon.
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