My hope is that society will eventually push back. There's this huge movement these days to turn all men into NPR beta males and suppress traditional masculinity because of a few bad eggs. We're in a Jeff Bezos/Bill Gates world now, where the techie nerds are now in charge of everything and the popular athletic kids from high school now report to them.
Academia has ALWAYS resented football and how it controls the purse strings and prideful narrative of a major university. These CTE studies are not only revealing, they also present an opportunity to skewer the sport altogether and balance the internal power at these campuses. The rest of the athletic department depends on football, too, other than those few basketball schools that carry their own weight. (Not to mention what football brings to the university directly and indirectly as a whole in research grant money.)
I couldn't adopt another league as my place to go. I'd just as soon drop the sport altogether. Pop Warner leagues are shrinking rapidly, which means high schools won't get fed with the same caliber athletes, nor the colleges from the high schools, and eventually the NFL from the draft. The system of talent is very much at risk right now.
