Columbia Football Players Allege Coach Forces Them To Play With Concussions

Columbia football players have made a number of allegations against their coach Pete Mangurian, including that he makes them play with concussions.

At all levels, football coaches and teams have done a much better job in recent years understanding the importance of head injuries and the extreme dangers that come with athletes playing with concussions.

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Unfortunately, coaches such as Pete Mangurian from Columbia still exist.

25 of his players wrote a letter to their school’s president requesting for Mangurian to be fired and claim he forced them to play with concussions.

From the Columbia Spectator:

"“Pete Mangurian has consistently denied the diagnoses of concussions,” the letter stated. “There are several players who will speak to the fact that Mangurian told them to return to practice, that they are faking their concussions, and that they are being soft if they sit out for their concussion injury.”"

This is absolutely terrible and, if true, Columbia needs to fire its coach on the spot. This is simply unacceptable in today’s society in which we are so informed about just how serious concussions are.

The players made a number of additional unsettling allegations about Mangurian as well.

"In addition to blaming him for creating age-based rifts within the team and mishandling concussions, the letter accuses Mangurian of being physically abusive, alienating injured players, imposing drastic and unrealistic weight regimens, and delivering a particularly scathing speech after the team’s 42-7 loss at Albany.“You are terrible [expletive] people,” Mangurian allegedly told his players after that game—the expletive had been edited out in the copy sent to Spectator by Jake Novak, CC ’92 and editor of the blog CULions. “The world would be a better place without you.”"

Yeah, this guy needs to go.

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