re: How good are the UGA equipment staff?

I found that article to be very interesting. There is certainly a lot of forces at work on a football field that equipment has and can have the potential to ameliorate its effects on the players' bodies. However, modifying equipment could very well be a sticky wicket. The moment you modify something, you pretty much absolve the company which built it of all legal responsibility, should something go wrong, and fully take it on. And if there is anything I have learned about sports equipment over the years it is that while they are highly designed to protect against one or multiple things, it can actually make another injury more likely to occur. One just sometimes never knows. If you want the UGA EMs to get into this, then I would hope they go into it hand and hand with a good bio-engineering firm very familiar with body mechanics.