SEC adds ‘independent medical observer’ to football games

The SEC passed a regulation Tuesday requiring the conference to have an “independent medical observer” watch out for head injuries at all football games involving SEC teams.

“We’ll put a trained medical person up in the replay booth,” outgoing SEC commissioner Mike Slive said. “It will give us another check in the event that on the field a team doesn’t see someone who may have had a head injury.

“Most of the time the sideline picks up those kind of things, but just in case they don’t … we’re doing everything we can to protect the health and safety of our students.”