Speaking at a football coaches’ seminar, Nicholas Murray looked out into the audience to see sparse attendance. He knew more coaches were at the event. He knew some had decided to skip his presentation.
They would rather mingle in the hallway than face an issue threatening public opinion about the safety of the South’s most coveted sport.
Murray is no stranger to the concussion stigma. The Georgia Southern University kinesiology professor and director of concussion research has been confronting the effects of concussions head-on since his arrival from the University of Texas-El Paso in 2014.
“A lot of people don’t want to hear it,” Murray said.