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Ivy League Moves to Eliminate Tackling at Football Practices
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:03 pm
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:03 pm
New York Times
How long before Cecil Hurt is writing a similar SEC story for the west Alabama paper of record?
How long before Cecil Hurt is writing a similar SEC story for the west Alabama paper of record?
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Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:09 pm to RaleighTiger
I like the idea. Everyone else's defense will be as bad as ours.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:13 pm to RaleighTiger
Tackling is overrated, anyway.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:13 pm to BoCam2
At some point you just have to decide whether football is worth the cost. I'd rather just stop playing it than turn it into some sort of psuedo-football sport.
If tackling is too dangerous then football is too dangerous. And it might be, but you can't have football with tackling, and you can't have game tackling without practicing tackling against living, breathing human beings attempting to allude tackle.
If tackling is too dangerous then football is too dangerous. And it might be, but you can't have football with tackling, and you can't have game tackling without practicing tackling against living, breathing human beings attempting to allude tackle.
This post was edited on 3/1/16 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:15 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Kiffin blamed not being able to tackle during practice (because of a lack of players) as one reason why the USC defense couldnt tackle for shite during the games.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:16 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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you can't have game tackling without practicing tackling against living, breathing human beings attempting to allude tackle
This is the big thing for me. If the kids don't learn how to hit, how are they going to know how to do it in a game without hurting themselves? I know at the college/pro level this is hopefully already learned, but i'm thinking about as we move forward and fewer kids are exposed tot tackling in Peewees and high school
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:20 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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If tackling is too dangerous then football is too dangerous.
Tackling isn't too dangerous. Tackling poorly by leading with your helmet is.
There's a reason rugby doesn't have near the concussion rate that football does.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:20 pm to DBU
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Kiffin blamed not being able to tackle during practice (because of a lack of players) as one reason why the USC defense couldnt tackle for shite during the games.
Yep, one of the many crippling effects of massive probation.
People sometimes think of practice as where you figure out plays, schemes, etc. If you don't teach, learn and perfect tackling in practice there is zero chance in hell you are going to be good at it during games against the best athletes in the country. Zero.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:21 pm to RB10
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Tackling isn't too dangerous. Tackling poorly by leading with your helmet is.
Which makes it is even stranger to suggest less tackling in practices, while still fully tackling in games, is going to help the situation.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:23 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Which makes it is even stranger to suggest less tackling in practices, while still fully tackling in games, is going to help the situation
I agree. They will probably see a hike in injuries related to tackling in the games due to this decision.
It's like taking away driver's Ed and just giving 16 year olds their license.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:24 pm to RaleighTiger
I'm gonna start watching Rugby.
American football is for pussies.
American football is for pussies.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:25 pm to RB10
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It's like taking away driver's Ed and just giving 16 year olds their license.
My guess is their response is that they will practice tackling on dummies, but that's just silliness. Tackling a non-human cannot prepare you for tackling a living, breathing human who is attempting to allude you. You won't be prepared to do it well and you won't be prepared to do it safely.
Which leads back to my bigger point. If tackling human beings is deemed to dangerous, then football is too dangerous.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:26 pm to RB10
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Tackling isn't too dangerous. Tackling poorly by leading with your helmet is.
There's a reason rugby doesn't have near the concussion rate that football does.
Or maybe Rugby just doesnt have the publicity of the NFL?
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:27 pm to RaleighTiger
What are they gonna do? Hug?
Pussification of 'Merica. I hate this generation so fricking much, turning our young men into cowardly marshmallows.
Is Bernie Sanders gonna propose that we eliminate bullets from war? Are boxing and MMA gonna be made illegal? Are we going to have to ask permission to take a fricking shite from now on? Am I going to be able to say the words "fricking shite"?
Pussification of 'Merica. I hate this generation so fricking much, turning our young men into cowardly marshmallows.
Is Bernie Sanders gonna propose that we eliminate bullets from war? Are boxing and MMA gonna be made illegal? Are we going to have to ask permission to take a fricking shite from now on? Am I going to be able to say the words "fricking shite"?
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:28 pm to RaleighTiger
Since the Ivy League only plays each other, I guess that can work.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:55 pm to RaleighTiger
Take off the helmets and most of these problems are solved. I know it's drastic and counterintuitive but it would absolutely work.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:57 pm to RaleighTiger
Years ago when my seven year old wanted to start playing football and his mother was having a cow, he said to her:
"Mom, we tackle each other all the time anyway. Wouldn't you rather we had pads?"
Case closed.
"Mom, we tackle each other all the time anyway. Wouldn't you rather we had pads?"
Case closed.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 1:58 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Purification of American society continues at light speed.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 2:09 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
Y'all, read the article.
From a football fan perspective I don't care for the prohibition. Tackling is tackling and you learn to do it well by tackling.
From all other perspectives, it is the right move.
We WILL see this occur throughout all football in the coming 5-6 years or so. Live contact already is at a minimum in the NFL.
The science proves it.
The lawsuits will force it.
It is the reality of the future.
From a football fan perspective I don't care for the prohibition. Tackling is tackling and you learn to do it well by tackling.
From all other perspectives, it is the right move.
We WILL see this occur throughout all football in the coming 5-6 years or so. Live contact already is at a minimum in the NFL.
The science proves it.
The lawsuits will force it.
It is the reality of the future.
Posted on 3/1/16 at 2:11 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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Take off the helmets and most of these problems are solved.
Only because the game will slow down. That isn't what people pay to watch.
We pay to watch large men hurt each other. No sugar coating it, that is why people build up a love for football. It scratches the gladiatorial itch.
Without the fast pace and without the big hits the game will turn into basketball in cleats.
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