in college football. http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-end-of-two-a-days-the-ncaa-pushes-a-less-demanding-practice-schedule-1484689770 This is the trend for sure, reductions in practice time and what you can do in practice have been coming for awhile now. I don't know if this is a good thing or not. But it's definitely the trend.
yeah it's a two-edged sword. Players need to learn the proper and safer techniques but we are cutting down on the time to teach and practice those techniques. I have a feeling that football as we know it is fading and its days are numbered.
I have often said to myself, try not to show anger as you age, with things you can not control. I am afraid this is the beginning of one of the things that I truly enjoy. :twisted:
this smells like someone trying to avoid a lawsuit. I've mentioned this elsewhere and maybe here, but the tackling donuts were absolutely marvelous and teaching 'rugby style' tackling which reduces concussions. We used them this season and our tackling was fantastic.
I think football's days, as we know the game, may be dwindling. Players are so big, fast, muscular and amped up on PEDs and the field dimensions have not changed. Good technique has given way to just horrific collisions. My brother in law is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and is in the midst of negotiatin a contract with the NFL to interview and assess players, both retired and current, who have suffered muliple concussions. Back in the day when I played in high school (1969-72) we had two a days that were comprised of a morning and afternoon session. The morning session was a solid three hours and the afternoon session was 2-2.5. hrs, We had a two hour break in between. Those ran for about20 days and they were brutal. The first two years they withelf water except for once a practice because that s what Woody Hayes recommended at OSU. The big guys would lose 10-15lbs per day in water weight and would guzzle liters of Gatorade ( which was brand new then ) in between sessions. I would come in at 182Lbs on Aug. 1 and by the opening game would play at 168-170Lb. My training table consisted of as many Big Macs, bananas and pizza I could eat and still could not hold weight. In lieu of water they forced us to swallow these huge yellow salt pills. Guys were always getting heat stroke syptoms. Then, in 1971, Woody decided players should have all the water they wanted. Now everytime you stood still for second a manager was shoving a water nozzle in your mouth. Go figure. When I was a freshman one of our senior WRs dropped dead on the practice field of a cardiac episode that was probably connected to these extreme conditions. Even worse, there were no medically rained personnel in attendance, just a couple of student managers with a copy of First Aid for Idiots in their back pockets. It's a brutal game.