Apparently the NCAA has been a bit laxadazical when it comes to concussions. I myself never knew the rule, but it looks like the NCAA is going to crack down on this whole concussion nonsense.

Hoping to beef up policies for handling concussions, an NCAA panel is recommending a new rule that would sideline an athlete for at least the rest of the day if he or she loses consciousness or shows other worrisome symptoms during competition.

I don’t know about you, but to me this seemed like a “duh” move. Last I checked, brains were pretty important to this whole living thing humans do. Any coach or player risking themselves for a game would be or is an idiot, it’s that simple.

Here’s your litmus test, coaches. If you run over to a player lying relatively motionless on the field and looks like a deer in headlights, you probably should be sitting that player for the rest of the game. It amazes me that this is even a problem. When I played lacrosse in high school, we’d sit a kid who was even thought to maybe, possibly have had a concussion.

I’ve never had one myself, but in case you haven’t spoken to someone who just had one, it makes you pretty stupid. One kid on my lacrosse team who got one had to be helped to the sidelines and for the rest of the game he had no idea where he was or why the hell he was there. Now it’s funny, but who knows what would’ve happened to him if he would’ve gone back in.

These new policies should be coming sooner rather than later. It takes one permenantly damaged kid for the folks over at the NCAA to look like complete asses.

[via ESPN]