Chris Nowitzki, founding executive director of the Sports Legacy Institute, told ESPN:
"It is an important first step toward fixing the large gaps in the protection of college athletes. "It was a significant effort to develop guidelines quickly with the support of so many organizations, and the guidelines themselves make sense.
"Since they are guidelines and not rules, it will be important to monitor their adoption to ensure they are creating the necessary change to protect athletes, and going forward the players themselves need to be represented with a voice at the table, as it is their health at stake."Nowitzki, interestingly, is a former Harvard nose tackle who later wrestled in the WWE. Check out a lengthy story about him and his five concussions on a Harvard Crimson piece called Confronting the Concussion. LINK
Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens joined the non-tackling movement early and hasn't held a full-contact practice in several years.
