After a "mild concussion" on Saturday, Colt McCoy announces two days later that he will play against Oklahoma this weekend. Believe I’ve read it takes a week to get over even a "mild concussion," which I keep putting in quotes because that’s what we’re told the team doctors called the injury that had McCoy reportedly vomiting on the sidelines in the fourth quarter
"He’s tough," head coach Mack Brown said. "Most kids would have come out at halftime."
He plainly isn’t tough. This was his second debilitating injury at the hands of a K-State tackler in less than a year. Oklahoma is tough. Let’s hope Colt is not throwing his life away to make his coaches happy. And fer crissakes, Brown, will you stop calling your players "kids." Of all the dopey coach-speak routines, that is the sorriest.
UPDATE: Someone else who thinks Colt needs to sit this one out, for his own health. On the other hand, UT legend Major Applewhite had a concussion in 1998 and played the next weekend, too. But Major had this little trick of sliding to the ground when a tackler was about to grab him.
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