Part of it.... Again it's what I was trying to say in my opening remarks about the importance of the athletes telling their story. How many coaches have really spent time asking one of their concussion-injured players, what's it like? How do you feel? What was it like a day later, a week later, the rest of it? What about in school?
How many have done that? How many general managers? How many owners of teams? How many administrators of leagues? How many of them have had that conversation?
There was a very telling moment in a deposition a couple of years ago when Gary Bettman was asked the question—these words are not exactly right, but something like that—“Have you ever talked to one of these injured players or their families?” The answer was “I don't believe so.”
It's why I made the comment in my remarks that we all love to say, “These are tough decisions and I'm the person to make the tough decisions.” Do you know how to make a tough decision an easy one? If you don't know the consequences, then it's an easy decision. What should be a tough decision would be a tough decision if you knew about the tough consequences, but if you decide to avoid what the consequences are then it's dead simple. It's easy to make any kind of decision that way.