No More Tackling in Practice

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Well, with the issues U.T. has had with injuries in practice EVERY year. These injuries really hurt our season the last half dozen years or so. Last year maybe more than ever. Anyway. There is a new movement to eliminate tackling in practice.

The future of football practice
 
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Queue the generational and liberal generalizations in 3... 2...
 
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That's a really good article. Hella long, but a good read.

Brings images of an entire scout team of remote-controlled (or even better, AI-controlled) tackling dummies on wheels, moving and cutting just like real players would. Even, at the limit, whole programmed opponent "play books" (or our coaches' best guesses at the upcoming foe's playbooks) coded into the automatron scout team for us to practice against.

If I were Butch, I'd be pre-ordering about 30 of these mobile tackling dummies, and in the meantime getting the UT computer science department working on a project to animate them as a scout team based on plays drawn up by the coaches.

Pretty intriguing glimpse at a future that could be less than a decade away.

Thanks, DD!
 
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1. Thanks as always.

2. The improved athlete really is the source of the issue.
Whill the amount of force needed to generate a concussion, a break or a sprain, has not changed, the average athlete generating the impact has improved, generated more speed and grown tremendously.
 
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landscapingvol said:
I miss the days of leather helmets and 175 lb lineman
Click to expand...

Yeah. I liked the Momentum Plays.. it's true physics. Fasten suitcase handles to the O-line belts, grab hold an fly down field in a wedge. Broken elbows, legs, ribs ... deaths, 40 in 1931. Nothing like the good ol' days when men were men and could give up their life for good ol' football ... a childs game.
 
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The best football team I was ever on went 15-0 and probably could've played with any team in the state outside of Maryville, we won every game by at least 14 points.

We spent 5 minutes a day practicing form tackling in slow/half speed motion. We spent the majority of our defensive time using barrels and dummies and talking/going over formations of the other team, and our offensive work was 20-30 plays that were scripted and was about 80% speed. We spent maybe 15 minutes a day, at most, going 100% tackling full speed. And we had two days a week we never put on more than helmets, and once playoffs started we hardly ever did more than shorts and shoulder pads.

Our coach was asked about it once by an old school reporter and he replied, "You know if your team can hit or not in the summer and during the first few games. Once you know you can trust them you don't risk hurting them by beating up on each other, because in today's game even the smallest kids are bigger than anyone used to be in the 70's and 80's, and the 200lb guys can run 4.7 40's. You just can't practice like we used to anymore because kids are only going to keep getting stronger and faster. Coaches have to evolve with the game just like the players are."
 
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Better athletes is the issue here but football is successful with multi generations because it is so adaptable. It's constantly changing to keep up with the times. I actually posted a video of that tackle bot like two years ago. It pops up here and there ever since, so it really is being taken seriously.
 
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