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re: Faulty equipment? Or most brutal facemask ever?
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:08 pm to DaleDenton
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:08 pm to DaleDenton
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They answer is correct to the question.
But it isn't. Are you too poor to go to college?
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Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:08 pm to Wild Thang
Didn't you know? UAB is SEC bro
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:10 pm to CNB
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UAB is SEC bro
Ahh.
Dale pulling some trickeration on me.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:11 pm to Wild Thang
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How many games yall lost in a row in the SEC Dale?
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Arkansas won Saturday.
Arkansas has been in the SEC for 2 decades plus.
Arkansas has not lost a game in a row, let alone games.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:11 pm to CNB
Same thing happened to us earlier against Memphis. One of their players pulled Walton's (?) facemask off.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:12 pm to CNB
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I'd rather a headbutt or knee in the face than my head getting snatched backwards at full speed
No you really wouldn't. If that facemask gave away and you were headbutted it could kill you instantly. People used to die on the field and directly after games in the leather helmet days due to skull fracture. It got so bad that Teddy Roosevelt intervened to help save football as universities were ready to scrap the game. Too many were dying and it had become a bloodsport.
Nowadays it could be even worse - imagine your facemask giving way and someone headbutting you with a hard shell helmet. Those helmets protect but they protect well enough to where players hit harder with them than they would if it were face to face.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:12 pm to DaleDenton
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Arkansas won Saturday.
Arkansas has been in the SEC for 2 decades plus.
Arkansas has not lost a game in a row, let alone games.
Sad deflection is sad.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:13 pm to CNB
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Next question, would breakaway facemasks make the game safer?
Not a bad idea actually. Would lead to evidence of facemasks after a play is over and protects player's from injury.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:14 pm to Prof
A knee yes, I don't think a headbutt would be as bad.
The other helmet would get in the way. Again, designs would have to change for a tearaway facemask but it could be a better option moving forward.
The other helmet would get in the way. Again, designs would have to change for a tearaway facemask but it could be a better option moving forward.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:14 pm to Henry Jones Jr
play would have to stop right away once a face mask came off
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:16 pm to CNB
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:17 pm to heartbreakTiger
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play would have to stop right away once a face mask came off
True. But they already do that once helmets come off as well.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:19 pm to stout
I don't even see how that facemask wound up in that position? It looks like it's slid up, but it's upside down...WTF?
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:25 pm to heartbreakTiger
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play would have to stop right away once a face mask came off
The trouble with that is even when helmets come off plays don't instantly stop. In a live game seconds and even fractions of seconds count and it takes a second or seconds for officials to spot the issue and react.
Reference Gurley's helmet coming off against SC last year. He kept running and the defenders kept playing before the officials blew the whistle to stop the play on safety grounds. The officials weren't exactly slow about it either it's just that in a live game a play isn't stopped the exact moment something happens and often can't be since in many cases forward momentum or an in process hit can happen after a helmet (or facemask) has come off.
If there was a pause button for this kind of stuff it would make things easier but live games don't give us that option.
This post was edited on 10/26/14 at 5:26 pm
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:27 pm to CNB
Neither.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:29 pm to WG_Dawg
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A guy is running and his facemask gets pulled off but there's still 5 defenders around him. Extremely possible someone is going in to make a tackle (at the same time the mask is getting taken off) and he's now going for a dude whose bare face is exposed.
This. A break away face mask would likely make it more dangerous for the player.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:32 pm to kywildcatfanone
Why not just change the facemask to a solid piece of plexiglass?
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:33 pm to kywildcatfanone
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A break away face mask would likely make it more dangerous for the player.
Not if you redesign it to where it doesn't. We can't ignore one problem because of another problem.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:34 pm to CNB
LF stronger than the facemask !
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:58 pm to CSATiger
Shoot, Part of the face mask poking you in the face or even your eye!! No break away crap for me.
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