Kudos to the adults at Texas.
The Longhorns may have lost the national title. But in the biggest game of the season, the grown-ups may have saved Colt McCoy's NFL future.
ABC's Lisa Salters talked to McCoy's father, who said the injury appears to be a sprained shoulder. McCoy begged to return. His dad, the team doctor and Texas coach Mack Brown decided it wasn't right to take the risk given his NFL future.
This was supposed to be The Year of the Quarterback in college football. It turned into a jumbled mess.
Oklahoma's Sam Bradford returned to school and injured his shoulder twice. Florida's Tim Tebow got knocked out with a concussion. And McCoy was injured on the Longhorns' first possession of the game.
You feel for McCoy, who afterward said, "I would have given everything I had to be out there with my team."
Then McCoy described his injury this way: "I really have no pain in my arm. I just can't feel my arm. It wasn't a painful hit. I've taken that hit over and over my whole life. ... I'm not in pain. My arm's dead. It feels like I slept on my arm and my arm's dead."
All the more reason to make sure his NFL career doesn't die, too.
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