NBC News Report on Geo Southern Helmets

[newtoasu]

I just saw a story on tonight's NBC national newscast about the new telemetry helmets that Georgia Southern has started using this year. It's a pretty interesting story about steps being taken to combat head trauma. What I thought was interesting was that the cost of each helmet is $1,500 each.

I'll put up a link when I find one.

[appbio91]

I just saw a story on tonight's NBC national newscast about the new telemetry helmets that Georgia Southern has started using this year. It's a pretty interesting story about steps being taken to combat head trauma. What I thought was interesting was that the cost of each helmet is $1,500 each.

I'll put up a link when I find one.

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-ne ... transcript

Interesting story.

[scatman77]

I just saw a story on tonight's NBC national newscast about the new telemetry helmets that Georgia Southern has started using this year. It's a pretty interesting story about steps being taken to combat head trauma. What I thought was interesting was that the cost of each helmet is $1,500 each.

I'll put up a link when I find one.

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-ne ... transcript

Interesting story.

It's interesting that a lot of colleges and a few high schools are using these helmets. The one organization that has the money to afford them and the lawsuits to prove that they need them has not decided to join the team on this issue.

[mikeyosef]

Lawsuits are exactly why the NFL doesn't use these things. Data could be and would be used by lawyers to prove the severity of head trauma that occurs frequently at the professional level. It also sounds like the purpose of the system,at the moment, is to study how these forces contribute to concussions in games. Interesting though.

[huskie3]

I just saw a story on tonight's NBC national newscast about the new telemetry helmets that Georgia Southern has started using this year. It's a pretty interesting story about steps being taken to combat head trauma. What I thought was interesting was that the cost of each helmet is $1,500 each.

I'll put up a link when I find one.

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-ne ... transcript

Interesting story.

It's interesting that a lot of colleges and a few high schools are using these helmets. The one organization that has the money to afford them and the lawsuits to prove that they need them has not decided to join the team on this issue.

I think the biggest thing preventing the NFL from using them are the current players. I saw a statement from one defensive player that he did not want a doctor with a computer pulling him from a game when he did not feel ane effects of the hit. You know the problems we have with top line HS players worrying about college scholarships when we are holding them out, in the pros you are talking about a guys livelihood. It is hard for some to see the future because of the present.

[asu1978]

Lawyers Be D@m&d,If these helmets help keep our players brains intact,lets go for it.Why should the stink think more of their players than we do?

[TheMoody1]

Cosidering stink players ended up where they did, they must already have something wrong with their brains.

[asu66]

Here's another take on it, Scat...

http://hhjonline.com/georgia-southern-f ... 54-103.htm

40 helmets @ $1,500 = $16,000 Not too big a hit to perhaps save a life! Good research project! Nice dissertation study for a doctoral student!

[newtoasu]

Here's another take on it, Scat...

http://hhjonline.com/georgia-southern-f ... 54-103.htm

40 helmets @ $1,500 = $16,000 Not too big a hit to perhaps save a life! Good research project! Nice dissertation study for a doctoral student!

Hi Chuck.

Your math is off just a bit; 40 helmets @ $1,500 each is $60,000, not $16,000.

Just out of curiosity, what message are you sending to the other 50 or so that suit up every Saturday but do not get one of the new helmets?

[scatman77]

Cosidering stink players ended up where they did, they must already have something wrong with their brains.

Well played.....!

[scatman77]

Here's another take on it, Scat...

http://hhjonline.com/georgia-southern-f ... 54-103.htm

40 helmets @ $1,500 = $16,000 Not too big a hit to perhaps save a life! Good research project! Nice dissertation study for a doctoral student!

Hi Chuck.

Your math is off just a bit; 40 helmets @ $1,500 each is $60,000, not $16,000.

Just out of curiosity, what message are you sending to the other 50 or so that suit up every Saturday but do not get one of the new helmets?

The numbers CP quoted include only the helmet. I agree that you should outfit every player and not choose a random number or else the lawyers will start licking their chops. So if you outfit a number of players (let's use the 85 schollys as a benchmark) then 85 x $1500 = $127,000. Now add in the laptop, support hardware, software, wireless telecommunications between the laptop and each helmet, the wireless to the athletic trainers' pagers and I'm guessing conservatively at $6000. Now we're up to $133,000 for one team.

To the athletic department, that's a possible 4 salaries and not going to happen. The athletic trainers it's a large sum that they can't pony up. To the parents of a young man whose brain and future was saved by that technology it's chump change.

Regardless I think it's good technology and based on sound research. Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz at unc-ch has done remarkable research on this topic and it's something that will be around for a long time but until the cost is more palatable it's not going to be mainstream.