Training camp like recess

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JonWard said:
Still don't like the analogy. I have NEVER heard any football player worth a damn (until now) compare Training camp to recess.

I have fun at work too, but it is still work...not play time.
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The important question is...at work, where you have fun, do you still get the job done?
 
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wtnvol said:
The important question is...at work, where you have fun, do you still get the job done?
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We are also quite literally talking about...wait for it...a game. Football is a game. It should feel like a game first and foremost. If you start thinking about it as your "job" or something you have to do, you will eventually get burned out on it. As a video gamer and league of legends player, I see it a lot on the "pro scene" for that game. These kids get paid to play league and the older vets just look so tired and like they've lost the passion for the GAME. The fact that he's saying he's having fun means he sees it for what it is. The best careers are ones that don't feel like jobs to you.
 
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CNCVol88 said:
We are also quite literally talking about...wait for it...a game. Football is a game. It should feel like a game first and foremost. If you start thinking about it as your "job" or something you have to do, you will eventually get burned out on it. As a video gamer and league of legends player, I see it a lot on the "pro scene" for that game. These kids get paid to play league and the older vets just look so tired and like they've lost the passion for the GAME. The fact that he's saying he's having fun means he sees it for what it is. The best careers are ones that don't feel like jobs to you.
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I agree totally. Anything you do that can be done while also having fun at it much makes it more enjoyable and you are more likely to give more than something that is less enjoyable. I don't understand the premise that you should not enjoy practice. The person I quoted mentioned that he had fun at his job but it was still work, as it should be, but having fun and doing your job(practice) are not mutually exclusive.
 
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JonWard said:
I'm fully aware of the meaning of recess. By all indications of context recess as playtime is exactly what he meant.
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They are "playing" a game, after all. Recess is the time to go play and have fun. Seems like a perfectly good use of the word. Why does this bother you so much? Personally I like the fact that they seem to be having fun.
 
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JonWard said:
So far, I have no idea how to respond to you. You have made no cogent rebuttal to my posts... Only tiresome, feigned exasperation.
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My exasperation isn't feigned, I can promise you that.

Did you read the entire comment by the player? Or just the sentence you quoted?
 
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So, our boys are having fun while in the middle of the physical abuse of fall camp, and we should worry? I'm sorry, just not following...
 
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JonWard said:
Still don't like the analogy. I have NEVER heard any football player worth a damn (until now) compare Training camp to recess.

I have fun at work too, but it is still work...not play time.
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NEWS FLASH!!!

Football is a game, it is NOT work. It was meant to be fun.
 
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I don't know why YOU IDIOTS are standing around! I'm running up PANIC HILL and I have a head start. I come home from work and go to sleep...wake up and check in to Volnation...AND MY OFFENSIVE LINEMEN ARE ENJOYING PRACTICE!...luckilywhenisignedupforthehopperigotthisnewipadsoicanwatchallmyfavoriteshows
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The quote of the camp was when Butch saw of couple DBs with their hands on their hips and referred to it as "synchronized softness" :)

Doesn't sound like recess....
 
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Jones pumps a rotating series of noises into Tennessee football practices, but it's not the canned crowd noise you might expect: rattling trains, breaking sheets of glass, and recorded car alarms echo around the practice field at nausea-inducing volumes. Then there's a file of a wailing infant that seems to stretch on past the point of humane motivational tactics. James, Stone, and Fulton trip over each other to declare it the worst offender. Richardson: "I'm like, Coach, it sounds like somebody's hurting these kids. It ain't right."
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The day we were there, it was also frequently followed up by the breaking-glass noise, suggesting infant defenestration.
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Probably why Bullard went to the "recess" wording.

From here: Tennessee's O-line and the season ahead - Grantland
 
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GAVol said:
Exactly... If people aren't throwing up and the coach isn't screaming like a meathead, it must not be effective.
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Don't forget to deny the team adequate hydration, always keep your helmet on regardless of the 90 degree weather and pump out those salt pills. Mmmm, so much fun.

:wacko::jpshakehead:

Our team doctor had a box of Bennies on the trainer’s table for those times when you were feeling the need for a little of Mother's help. :mf_surrender:
 
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I didn't know how to take that when I read it either. To me it meant it was easy, but I think they meant fun.
 
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