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.”
The observer will be given the authority to stop the game and have the injured player leave the field, Slive said.
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