Preliminary Injury Report?
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Well, when you hear players parents are down on the sidelines, you have to think bad things. I'd never heard announcers say that before.
Also did you see kemps hand shaking when he was down in the field? Felt for him. Obviously was in a ton of pain.
We have wat more than our fair share of injuries.
Also did you see kemps hand shaking when he was down in the field? Felt for him. Obviously was in a ton of pain.
We have wat more than our fair share of injuries.
You have hit on a very real problem. Our guys lift all winter only to get injured and out for the season in the fall. Something is wrong with our S&C for this to continuously happen. Stretching, taping, braces warmups something is not right.
Don’t injuries just happen sometimes? I get what you’re saying and we do seem to have a lot of injuries, but football can be brutal. I didn’t see replays of yesterday’s injuries, but sometimes, the collision will cause injury no matter the S&C.
It just seems like every year we complain about S&C. Do we never have good S&C guys?
none of the top 4 WRs at the start of fall camp are playing anymore. Let that sink in. Is that a fluke? Or just some basic fundamentals overlooked? IDK. I really just wish they’d have made McGuire a QB coach. He does seem like to have a good football mind; I just think asking someone with basically no real coaching experience to handle a unit like WR is asking too much.
At least @ QB coach you’d have your OC on you all most all the time. And if he’s the play guru everyone says he is the QB is where he’d shine. I’ve seen a lot of good young QB coaches Imagine hiring a 23 year old start out of College to be a department head anywhere with no real mentors around with a large group under you. Whose a WR guy on the team who can help him? Seriously?
And I promise I’m not ripping him too much. Just think he was put in a difficult spot here. It’s an impossible weight
At least @ QB coach you’d have your OC on you all most all the time. And if he’s the play guru everyone says he is the QB is where he’d shine. I’ve seen a lot of good young QB coaches Imagine hiring a 23 year old start out of College to be a department head anywhere with no real mentors around with a large group under you. Whose a WR guy on the team who can help him? Seriously?
And I promise I’m not ripping him too much. Just think he was put in a difficult spot here. It’s an impossible weight
guess you haven’t looked at the bodies of the players that have transformed from last year Ty no gut benhardt no gut Nash trimmed down. I doubt if they have this many injuries total in the next 5 years. It’s just bad luck
Are you blaming the WR coach for the 3 WR's getting hurt and the quitter WR quiting again? You have some interesting takes to say the least.
Someone posts this exact post every single year. Under the last 4 S and C coaches. These aint non-contact injuries. Its football, it happens, we just need more depth.
Bigger stronger WRs would be a start to reducing injuries.
We’re actually hitting in practice again, I’m surprised we didn’t have more injuries prior to the start of the season. Injuries happen regardless of who the S&C coach is. The problem here is we lack good depth, still. In a few years we will have a good two deep with 4* frosh in the wings.
You sound like an expert. So which is it? Are we doing the wrong lifts? Are we not running enough? Are we stretching poorly/incorrectly? What should we be doing differently with our taping? Should we be wearing more braces, fewer braces, no braces, different braces? Maybe it's our warmups - what should we be doing differently that will reduce our injuries?
Injuries are more common when you have an improper stress-recovery ratio
New more rigorous weight program + much more physical practices represent a huge stress to these players based on previous years
soft tissues without proper recovery are more susceptible to injury
poor recovery blunts the neuromotor proprioceptive protective process whereby you automatically avoid stresses that lead to injury (one example is that following a concussion players are at increased risk of ACL tears for several months, even up to year because of this compromised neuromotor protective mechanism)
secondly the players are executing high velocity-acute angle cuts on grass in practice all camp and during the week that when performed on turf increase joint stress. They weren't/aren't getting neuromotor feedback all camp and week based on turf dynamics because they are on grass therefore those neuromotor protective mechanisms aren't honed to be protective when playing on turf
grass is much much safer but I'm not sure that practicing on grass during the week and then playing on turf limits injuries
the safest scenario is practice on grass and play on grass
the second safest scenario may be to practice on turf and play on grass versus practice on grass and play on turf
if you are playing the majority of your games on turf it might be safer to just practice on turf to let the bodies get as much feedback on what they can and cannot get away with on that surface
New more rigorous weight program + much more physical practices represent a huge stress to these players based on previous years
soft tissues without proper recovery are more susceptible to injury
poor recovery blunts the neuromotor proprioceptive protective process whereby you automatically avoid stresses that lead to injury (one example is that following a concussion players are at increased risk of ACL tears for several months, even up to year because of this compromised neuromotor protective mechanism)
secondly the players are executing high velocity-acute angle cuts on grass in practice all camp and during the week that when performed on turf increase joint stress. They weren't/aren't getting neuromotor feedback all camp and week based on turf dynamics because they are on grass therefore those neuromotor protective mechanisms aren't honed to be protective when playing on turf
grass is much much safer but I'm not sure that practicing on grass during the week and then playing on turf limits injuries
the safest scenario is practice on grass and play on grass
the second safest scenario may be to practice on turf and play on grass versus practice on grass and play on turf
if you are playing the majority of your games on turf it might be safer to just practice on turf to let the bodies get as much feedback on what they can and cannot get away with on that surface
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Back in 95, almost no injuries. I remember when we would play dregs at the end of he season, in the 70's and 80's(KU and KSU) they had very few starters left. This would lead me to believe that athleticism prevents injuries as well as anything.
Find it worth a good thinking why are all these injuries happening on offense and on defense maybe we've lost one guy all year?
Find it worth a good thinking why are all these injuries happening on offense and on defense maybe we've lost one guy all year?
We had injuries in the 90's, we just had great players replacing them. Tommie, Brook, Minter, to name a few.
they also played significantly less snaps than our current players due to blowouts
secondly - training programs of today that are based on responses of the athletes that were on PEDs are foolish
PEDs are effective in large part by speeding/enhancing recovery and allowing athletes to go hard day after day without breaking down
trying to emulate the practices of the 80's-90's or weight programs during these times are recipes for injuries (not saying this is necessarily the case at NU)
also pro athletes are on PEDs - taking a pro strength and conditioning program and running it in college without significant modifications isn't wise (again this may not be occurring at NU)
having a full padded blood bath of a practice the day after being physically beaten up by Michigan while may have been what was called from a mentality perspective, certainly may have come at the risk of increasing the risk of injuries
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