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Blissett done with football???
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The reason it seems like this happens at Miami more than other schools is because most of us don’t pay close enough attention to other schools. A reserve player medically retiring won’t get national attention so unless you follow a team’s specific media sources, you’d never really know. Nobody nationally is aware of Blissett’s situation. Just like we wouldn’t be aware a similar situation happening in Penn State.
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It's always good to keep in mind why we call these young men and women student-athletes. I'm sure Mr. Blissett has a bright future ahead of him.
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In the last year Noah Banks at UF and Jalen Parks at FSU have medically retired.
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Not really sure laughing at players retiring because of injury is acceptable, even in gator/nole tears.
There ya go.
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Very unfortunate, but glad he is doing what is best for him. And yes, UM will no doubt allow him to stay and complete his degree. They are good like that. Had Ahmmon in a few of my classes after his medical retirement.
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Bro, we’ve had 3 neck retirements since 2016. I can’t recall ever having a medical retirement prior to!!
I’m not sure Blissett’s retirement has anything to do w/ us, v. years of accumulated wear & tear, which he mentioned the multiple concussions suffered via high school. Regardless, that’s 4 in 5 yrs.
I’m going to assume no other school has been this prolific w/ medical retirements. I follow all of CFB, and the only other medical retirement, from the football field, I can remotely recall was the RB from Oregon, Tyner...and buddy came back the following yr to become a Beaver.****, even w/ Phillips getting injured off field to cause him to medically retire, he came back.
Dude, our boys careers be like seriously done.....and w/ 4 in 5 yrs??? That’s wild. Like on some wtf type wild chit.
Guys retire, for medical reasons, ALL THE TIME.
I'll just name one guy right off the bat, as it happened on national television - Tyrone Prothro. Horrible.
Plenty of kids have retired over the years when they have been diagnosed with previously undetected heart conditions. Especially since Hank Gathers. Same thing with head/neck injuries.
And the list is incredibly long when it comes to guys with knee injuries who never come back. Rusty Medearis. And so many others.
Sometimes, we don't notice, because we are so conditioned to believe that a top athlete will DEFINITELY come back from an injury, no matter how gruesome. So we wait a few years, and then we lose track of those kids.
Please don't "assume" that "no other school has been this prolific with medical retirements". I understand the temptation to think this way because of how closely we monitor UM's roster, or because we cannot pinpoint some of these injuries to one particular televised play on the field.
This is not a UM problem. We just see it with greater clarity because we are UM fans.
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That's 3 schools including us as opposed to the hundreds if not more that encompass all levels of college athletics..... It's sad when it happens to anyone anywhere but it's not an uncommon thing....
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Thankfully it's well known that UM honors schollys so the men and women that attend athletically can finish their education.....
Blissett has shown to have a good head on his shoulders and it's obvious he has good people around him that care for him so I believe he'll be fine...
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No, I don't think that is what he is saying.
Even within the medical community, skill and judgment vary among doctors. Why do you think people "get second opinions"?
These college athletes often only go to see the doctor provided to them by the university. ****, Michigan State was sending its athletes to Dr. Nassar for decades. So, yeah, maybe some universities have better doctors than others.
I'm not sure why there is so much focus on the number of medical retirements in the past 4 years. How do we know that if the same diagnostic techniques used today were applied 40 years ago, we wouldn't have seen a lot more medical retirements back then?
I am old enough to remember Darryl Stingley. And Mike Utley. Maybe those guys had structural spinal issues that could have made them more susceptible to those injuries, or maybe those injuries were freak occurrences. We will never know if those guys might have been told by their doctors that they should not be playing football if they were playing today and being examined by doctors using the most current diagnostic methods. It is hard to compare today's medical knowledge to what we had 40 years ago.
Finally, I'm not sure what you are trying to say with your comment about the medical staff. If anything, we should be concerned with whether our coaches are trained to recognize and investigate training and practice techniques that might be particularly dangerous. I'm not sure why we would ever blame a doctor for simply looking at X-rays and making medical judgments.
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Don't take this the wrong way, but you might want to consider having a doctor look into this. ****, you played football in the 1960s, while I played in the 1980s. And in the 1980s, while we started to see the rise of the Riddell helmet (the one that had a series of rectangular cushions inside the helmet, which looked like sponges inside of water), there were still some pretty crappy helmets available.
The worst one that I can remember had a "spider-web" inside the top of the helmet, it was a little round pad that was held in place by several canvas straps attached to the inside of the helmet, so that when you wore it, the top of your head did not touch the inside top of the helmet, because the spider-web was in between. That helmet also had very hard dark-gray "padding" inside of it that did not have a lot of "give". I remember that when I would try on one of those helmets, it actually hurt to pull it on and off your head. I think this helmet was made by Rawlings (apologize if I got the manufacturer wrong).
The one I used was in between those two helmets. It had softer white foam padding inside, and usually the pads along your cheeks/jaw line were detachable, while the other foam pads were glued in (the crappy helmet with the dark-gray padding had all-glued pads along the sides of the head, with the spider-web at the top).
I remember that some kids got hit hard in those helmets, and this was in Pop Warner and high school when the hits were not nearly as hard as what you see in college football.
It might be worthwhile to see a doctor. In addition to playing football, I was hospitalized in sixth grade for a serious concussion (a kid running for the lunch line in school collided with me and knocked my head into a concrete wall). I still get headaches in cold weather, and I live in Florida.
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Been watching football forever. Never seen a program have more career ending injuries ever.
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1980s style Riddell helmet:
The Rawlings "spider-web":
Here's a more recent Rawlings helmet. One worn by a player for the Oakland Raiders:
Here is a New Orleans Saints helmet with glued-in cheek/jaw pads:
Good lord, I remember playing football games with kids who wore that Rawlings helmet, and if they had one that was too loose, it was like watching a bobblehead doll, as that helmet would just bobble around on a kid's head.
The Rawlings "spider-web":
Here's a more recent Rawlings helmet. One worn by a player for the Oakland Raiders:
Here is a New Orleans Saints helmet with glued-in cheek/jaw pads:
Good lord, I remember playing football games with kids who wore that Rawlings helmet, and if they had one that was too loose, it was like watching a bobblehead doll, as that helmet would just bobble around on a kid's head.
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And yet this is factually incorrect.
A prior poster has provided links to newspaper articles detailing 5 medical retirements at Ped State in the 2018 off-season, 6 medical retirements in at Tennessee in the 2019 off-season, and 3 medical retirements at Oregon State since then end of the 2020 season.
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Tennessee had 6 OL medically retire in one year. Did you know about that? How about 5 Penn State players medically retire in one year?
Tennessee football: 6 OL have medically retired since last season ended
Tennessee has had six offensive linemen leave football due to medical reasons since last season ended.www.knoxnews.com
At Penn State, 5 player retirements part of a ‘strange year’
Five Penn State football players have ended their college careers in the past two months, a phenomenon head coach James Franklin called part of a “strange year.” However, in some cases,…www.mcall.com
Good chit; not in a good way of course; quite sad, but good info to provide context.
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Was talking to one of my old heads discussing playing football in the 80’s. Said his school in SF had tried this “cushioned” Riddell helmets that had these gel inserts. They were experimental helmets. Said the first practice as he’s on the OL, they are doing Oklahomas, and his helmet just cracks...cuts into his nose and all this goo just mixes in w/ the blood. Lol. He said that’s when he knew he was not meant for football despite his size. Lol.
I don’t know how guys played w/ these joints.
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Melvin Mcbride who signed with UT in 2019 medically retired