Endzones too close to walls

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I think the back of the endzone is too close to crowd seperating wall. I see players run into them a lot when its so stupid. If there is a concern in player safety, they would back up the fans 5-10 feet.
 
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I don't think injury happens very often which is why it's never been much of an issue. IIRC, they've put padding in some spots before (don't remember if it was here or elsewhere or multiple stadiums) but by and large a player has time to slow down before striking one. They have to run through a whole lot of press people to get there.

Also, there's always going to be some sort of barrier and as soon as you move one eventually a player will hit one farther back. Padding for the most dangerous spots is something I definitely support and I'm sure someone at UT has done a study on that and tell us where padding should go, what type, and how much.
 
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I was at an open practice under kiffin where a player ran right into the wall with his helmet. They had just put in the new brick facade then. It was a scary moment as he had a concussion and was carted off the field. They put the padding in neyland immediately thereafter
 
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I've thought the same thing about that wall. Not been quite as noticeable lately with our lack of speed.
 
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It's a problem in Boise also. I think a lot of places have this problem.
 
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Short of building an enormous track around the field/giving tons of space after the endzone and moving the seats back I don't see an easy solution. It sounds like the issue is that the wall exists. It exists in basketball too and the same thing happens except those poor guys and gals don't have any equipment on should they run into one.

I vote padding.
 
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UTProf said:
Short of building an enormous track around the field/giving tons of space after the endzone and moving the seats back I don't see an easy solution. It sounds like the issue is that the wall exists. It exists in basketball too and the same thing happens except those poor guys and gals don't have any equipment on should they run into one.

I vote padding.
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Unless your Rick Pitino and give your players helmets to practice in (which I really like)

I always think the raised courts are dangerous. I read an article where the NCAA are really big into doing this whenever possible because it increases the experience for the fans and gives a better view. It's retarded IMO.
 
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Shaun1985 said:
Unless your Rick Pitino and give your players helmets to practice in (which I really like)

I always think the raised courts are dangerous. I read an article where the NCAA are really big into doing this whenever possible because it increases the experience for the fans and gives a better view. It's retarded IMO.
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I had no idea Pitino gave his players helmets. What kind of helmets does he use??

And yeah those raised courts are a gimmick and an insanely dangerous one at that. Instead of being aware that you could run into a wall on 2 sides, now you have to worry about falling off the court on all 4 sides? Yeah I'm really gonna hustle to get that ball knowing I could take a plunge 4 feet down.
 
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UTProf said:
I had no idea Pitino gave his players helmets. What kind of helmets does he use??

And yeah those raised courts are a gimmick and an insanely dangerous one at that. Instead of being aware that you could run into a wall on 2 sides, now you have to worry about falling off the court on all 4 sides? Yeah I'm really gonna hustle to get that ball knowing I could take a plunge 4 feet down.
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Coach Martin does this too. But our players get crayons with their helmets.
 
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UTProf said:
I don't think injury happens very often which is why it's never been much of an issue. IIRC, they've put padding in some spots before (don't remember if it was here or elsewhere or multiple stadiums) but by and large a player has time to slow down before striking one. They have to run through a whole lot of press people to get there.

Also, there's always going to be some sort of barrier and as soon as you move one eventually a player will hit one farther back. Padding for the most dangerous spots is something I definitely support and I'm sure someone at UT has done a study on that and tell us where padding should go, what type, and how much.
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lulz at the ESPN guys slowing down the momentum.
 
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UTProf said:
I had no idea Pitino gave his players helmets. What kind of helmets does he use??

And yeah those raised courts are a gimmick and an insanely dangerous one at that. Instead of being aware that you could run into a wall on 2 sides, now you have to worry about falling off the court on all 4 sides? Yeah I'm really gonna hustle to get that ball knowing I could take a plunge 4 feet down.
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They use MMA helmets. It's to help prevent concussions and I can see a lot of schools doing this.

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Shaun1985 said:
They use MMA helmets. It's to help prevent concussions and I can see a lot of schools doing this.

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I don't blame him at all. In fact that's smart. We hear a lot about concussions in football because football looks a lot more violent (the violence of football is a spectacle down to the sound of crunching pads) but injury isn't just about violence or perception of violence and basketball is a contact sport even though it's often described otherwise. There are on court collisions all the time that cause concussions during play and practice.

The worst injury in my my life was when I ran into another kid on the playground. Our heads met - forehead to forehead at full speed. The collision blinded me but somehow I could 'see' my way back to class. It was very weird to experience that sensation of being blind but somehow being able to navigate where I needed to go. I went through the rest of the school day and told no one, my vision returned after all then I showed up to team basketball practice. Not long after I started practicing, I felt like I'd been struck by lightning. My head hurt so bad I was on the bleachers crying when my mom showed up and upon seeing me took me immediately to the hospital. Diagnosis: concussion.

Made me so mad that I had to miss games and sit out but I'm glad the doctors and my mom did that. There wasn't much knowledge about concussions then and I could've really gotten hurt or even died if with 2nd impact syndrome if I wasn't forced to sit and heal. But who knew about 2nd impact syndrome then?
 
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UTProf said:
I don't blame him at all. In fact that's smart. We hear a lot about concussions in football because football looks a lot more violent (the violence of football is a spectacle down to the sound of crunching pads) but injury isn't just about violence or perception of violence and basketball is a contact sport even though it's often described otherwise. There are on court collisions all the time that cause concussions during play and practice.

The worst injury in my my life was when I ran into another kid on the playground. Our heads met - forehead to forehead at full speed. The collision blinded me but somehow I could 'see' my way back to class. It was very weird to experience that sensation of being blind but somehow being able to navigate where I needed to go. I went through the rest of the school day and told no one, my vision returned after all then I showed up to team basketball practice. Not long after I started practicing, I felt like I'd been struck by lightning. My head hurt so bad I was on the bleachers crying when my mom showed up and upon seeing me took me immediately to the hospital. Diagnosis: concussion.

Made me so mad that I had to miss games and sit out but I'm glad the doctors and my mom did that. There wasn't much knowledge about concussions then and I could've really gotten hurt or even died if with 2nd impact syndrome if I wasn't forced to sit and heal. But who knew about 2nd impact syndrome then?
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It was either Pitt or Villanova that decided to do the same thing so this type of method is catching on and pretty soon everyone will be doing this. I cracked jokes on L'ville when I heard this but it's honestly a smart move. The article I read talked about how 5 current L'Ville players had more than 1 concussion so this will cut back on that.
 
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Shaun1985 said:
It was either Pitt or Villanova that decided to do the same thing so this type of method is catching on and pretty soon everyone will be doing this. I cracked jokes on L'ville when I heard this but it's honestly a smart move. The article I read talked about how 5 current L'Ville players had more than 1 concussion so this will cut back on that.
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Concussions don't get much play in the press outside of football so I'm really glad awareness is catching on in other sports. There's risk to every game but there's no sense in just ignoring problems, especially if you can do something to prevent them practice which is where a lot of injuries occur.

We're at that really scary part of concussion research where we know they can be very bad things but we still don't know much about the hows, whys, why some people's brains are more damaged than others or how many is too many and so on. I'm looking forward to when we figure out why certain hits are worse than others, how to prevent them, and how to effectively treat concussions so that they don't end up adding up to the point where someone's brain is turned into an alzheimer's brain by one too many.
 
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