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“I think you owe it to the student-athletes to look out for their best interests,” McAleer said. “Ultimately, I think it can make football safer. I think this is our way of being proactive.”
“We can analyze the amount of contact we’re doing, ” Delaney said. “If I have a kid who is repeatedly setting his alert off, I’m either going to teach that kid how to tackle better or we’ll hold him out of some contact.”
"We'd like everybody in the area to have this (Insite)," Pitts said. "This is not team-specific. We want everybody to have this technology and not just in football. Cheerleaders are the largest group on the rise. Every sport needs kids baseline tested."
Taking home the Global SABRE in the Community Relations category for its work with sports equipment manufacturer Riddell, the winning program was selected from more than 5,000 entries around the world.
The helmets were produced in concert with Hydro Graphics Inc. and Riddell, and the leather look is courtesy of a hydro film leather-like texture featuring wing and cross graphics. The design was created using high-resolution photos of the actual helmet the 1939 team wore. They even have "AMC" on the back, which stands for "Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas," which was what Texas A&M was known as in 1939.
“Riddell’s new flex design reduces head acceleration better than any helmet they've (Virginia Tech) ever tested.”
"Dr. Melvin sent me an email about an article he had read and asked us to contact our Riddell representative to see if we could get some information about these helmets," Lawson said. "I then went and clicked on the YouTube link and watched the video."
"The sensors track any significant blows to the head when a player is hit. The technology is called the Riddell Insite Impact Response System," said Josh Wallace, head football coach for the team.
Naklick also said that's not going to change, so something else has to. The school is now using technology to take that chance out of the equation called the Riddell Insite Concussion Management system. It doesn't prevent or diagnose concussions, but sensors inside the helmet send an alert to a handheld device. It's specific about what athlete. The student is then taken off the field to be tested and if he's not hurt, he can play again.
Schools and youth leagues are trying to get ahead of brain injuries with new impact sensors that alerts adults when a player has received a potentially serious hit.
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