Texas Tech Suspends Mike Leach

Electrical therapy has been known to work wonders.

UGH.

ETA: NM, came out wrong.

I don't think it is as much of an issue of HTFU for the player.  If the reports are true, and he did have a concussion, I think it was incredibly poor judgement by the coach (not to mention the training staff and team doctors) to put him in a closet, unsupervised, for 3 hours.  Concussions are a serious injury and everyone is lucky something worse didn't happen.  I'm thankful it didn't.

Besides, who puts someone in a closet?  Really?  I don't get it. 

I agree 100%!  If the kid has a concussion he should not have been left alone in a closet.  Stupid! I think this coach deserves more severe punishment than just the suspension.

That makes a bit of a difference. 

I'm still not entirely certain why, in gods name, he was put in a closet.  Was it for humiliation?  I don't get it.

And as for the "abuse" players today complain about.  I agree they need to HTFU.  I think it becomes a fine line, though, when the coach touches player.  A poke in the chest or a hank on the face mask, meh, whatever.  Choking the player (Knight) or hitting the player obviously cross the line. 

"While signs of concussion can last for weeks to months, most people recover without any permanent damage. Repeated concussions should be avoided at all costs. If you return to sports too early, you risk suffering from "second impact syndrome." There is evidence that repeated head injuries over time (especially within 3 months of each other) can result in permanent brain damage and sometimes even death. After several concussions, most doctors will recommend that you considering changing sports or current activities."

Up until last year I guess I was one of those guys that thought as long as you are breathing just HTFU and don't be a wuss.  Then my son had two concussions in a 7-month period.  I learned to take concussions seriously.  Why risk permenent brain damage?  he's doing fine but we make sure he is wearing a helmet in most of activities.  We didn't let him ski or snowboard last year because we didn't want to risk another head injury.  Concussions really are serious business!

Agreed.  Sitting in the closet would not cause a concussion.  However, my understanding is that he was left alone in the closet for 3-hours.  If that's the case, that was wrong.  If he already had a concussion he could have blacked out with nobody there at the time to help him.  Seems unlikely but it could happen.  Then how would Leach explain that?