[CaptainCrunch]

The fix is absolutely simple to me.

The coaches are supposed to take the safe tackling courses and then work on it with the kids in every practice.

All of the Canadian football bodies need to crack down on it and at the very least enforce the rules

1) Groups like Football Alberta and others need to utilize the refs to go and do snap inspections of practices. first off to make sure a set amount of time is being done with safe contact drills. Drills like King of the mountain, and Oklahoma and head to head pit if seen need to be removed from practices.

2) At the start of every game the refs needs to remind coaches that a UR penalty on a dangerous hit or helmet to helmet will result in a warning to the player and the coach. If a second UR penalty occurs with the player and its a head hit then the player and the coordinator are ejected from the game and suspended for the next game. If a second UR penalty for example is called on a different player, then the player is again warned and the coordinator is ejected and suspended.

3) If a coordinator is suspended more then once then he is suspended for the rest of the season.

4) Refs have to call the rules and know what safe contact looks like at a game level. If the Ref notices that teams are tackling using the Seahawks technique for example, then the ref has to warn the bench, if it continues then the head coach is ejected from the game and suspended for the game.

Like I said amateur football can't just look like they're doing something with the coach training, they have to enforce the safe contact technique.

I stayed after our game and watched several others and saw several helmet to helmet shots where the ref didn't throw the flag, maybe because they're not getting trained properly to recognize it, maybe because they're scared that if they start throwing the flag they're going to take abuse from the coaches (That's a whole other story).

We can't pay lip service to this anymore, there are lots of problems with kids football, but this is a huge safety issue and its driving kids away from a good sport to other sports.