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How good are the UGA equipment staff?
Posted on 4/21/14 at 8:42 am
Posted on 4/21/14 at 8:42 am
I was reading a recruiting article and a (Georgia kid) prospect and his family were rather swayed in picking Auburn over UGA because of an assumed safety benefit from the Auburn EM. I looked into it and they do seem to have the best one in the business and have taken things into another level.
Here are two homer articles and at face value very different philosophies.
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Here are two homer articles and at face value very different philosophies.
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Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:04 am to BarberitosDawg
I don't know how good they are, but I haven't heard of any issues at UGA.
Funny story, apparently the AU equipment manager at the time was in the vicinity of the truck delivering the blackout jerseys for the game in 2007. Our equip. manager asked him for help unloading the locked boxes of "new towels," and the AU guy obliged. After the game, the AU guy called the UGA equipment manager all pissed off because he figured out what had happened.
Funny story, apparently the AU equipment manager at the time was in the vicinity of the truck delivering the blackout jerseys for the game in 2007. Our equip. manager asked him for help unloading the locked boxes of "new towels," and the AU guy obliged. After the game, the AU guy called the UGA equipment manager all pissed off because he figured out what had happened.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:33 am to BarberitosDawg
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I was reading a recruiting article and a (Georgia kid) prospect swayed in picking Auburn over UGA because of an assumed safety benefit from the Auburn
I would like to read this article
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:46 am to Cherokee Chinstrap
our equipment manager's main job is to make sure kids dont get too many pairs of shoes to sell to boosters unless the players are real good...
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:49 am to Cherokee Chinstrap
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Here is what found reading the AJC just now.
PS that story was funny as hell Crow, I live for those moments in life... Preciate the info.
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Why Auburn? “Great coaching staff with high energy, and great academic support. Auburn probably has one of the most superb equipment managers in the nation. He just re-invented the shoulder pads again. That’s one of the big things with my mom. She wants me to be safe. And then Auburn is just great people.”
Here is what found reading the AJC just now.
PS that story was funny as hell Crow, I live for those moments in life... Preciate the info.
This post was edited on 4/21/14 at 9:51 am
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:53 am to silverdawg
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“I was very interested in Georgia. But their facilities and everything were a little more spread out. The football players there need mopeds to get around campus, just so they can go everywhere. I think it’s a lot of driving, where at Auburn I just have to walk a couple of yards or a couple of blocks and I’m where I need to be.”
In other words, "I aspire to be a fat, slovenly bastard and fully intend to have qualified 'academic supporters' take all of my tests for me while I chill in the players' lounge and empty cans of Cheez-Wiz into my pie hole."
Dumbass.
This post was edited on 4/21/14 at 9:55 am
Posted on 4/21/14 at 10:00 am to S1C EM
Jesus Christ, and I thought there couldn't be a dumber reason to pick a school than that "campus isn't as spread out" bullshite Bailey pulled last weekend. If you're picking a school because of the equipment manager... coach just played you like a fiddle, son.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 10:01 am to silverdawg
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Bailey Sharp
Never trust a man with a first name that is generally associated with the opposite sex.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:28 pm to Cherokee Chinstrap
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.
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