Collective bargaining is the biggest fault in this specific case, and there’s not much that can done about it. There’s less off-season work and less practice time almost every new CBA because the owners are willing to give that up because it doesn’t effect their bottom line in the short time and players are more than happy to get the same money to work less and get hit less.
I was a big fan of Von going back to his Aggie days until that story a couple of years ago, so seeing him under investigation for DV again isn’t that surprising.