NCAA Urges Contact Limits for Football Practice

cloverleaf · Jul 9, 2014

Contact practice limits were among several recommendations released Monday by the NCAA. They are recommending football teams hold no more than two full-contact practices per week during the season. The guidelines also recommend four contact practices per week during the preseason and no more than 8 of the 15 sessions during spring practice.

Where the hell was the NCAA back during the 60s when I played?

I hope I'm dead and gone before college football turns into nothing more than flag football.

rolltide · Jul 9, 2014

think it's time to go the big 12 route and just have flag football, 11 on offense vs 7 on defense ... every game ends up around 100 points.

GoSooners · Jul 9, 2014

Since this is a guideline and not a rule, the chances of the NCAA enforcing this are between zero and never going to happen.

CoachCB · Jul 9, 2014

cloverleaf said:
Contact practice limits were among several recommendations released Monday by the NCAA. They are recommending football teams hold no more than two full-contact practices per week during the season. The guidelines also recommend four contact practices per week during the preseason and no more than 8 of the 15 sessions during spring practice.

Where the hell was the NCAA back during the 60s when I played?

I hope I'm dead and gone before college football turns into nothing more than flag football.

CL, did you play in college?

I played HS football 1985, 86, & 87 (graduated in 88). We hit all the time and rarely had water breaks. We had to wear our helmets the ENTIRE practice and during games, no matter how hot it was. HS football in Florida was brutal! I remember afternoon thunderstorms and mud! I remember fire ants on the practice fields. I rarely remember drinking water! It was barbaric! I can't believe more kids didn't have heat related issues.

cloverleaf · Jul 9, 2014

Yeah Coach, I played in pee-wee, junior high, high school and got a free ride in college.

Hey you old guys...remember back in the early 60s there were no water breaks...that was considered pussy. We would get the manager to soak a towel so we could suck some water out of it behind the coaches backs. Bet some oldtimers out there remember those days.

Wonder we didn't die from heat stroke. "Make sure you take your salt tablets boys...it's going to be hot out there today." Heard that a thousand times. Crazy but during the time, coaches thought it was soft and didn't believe in water breaks.

loomis41973 · Jul 9, 2014

Welcome to another example of the pussification of America.

Well-Seasoned · Jul 10, 2014

CoachCB said:
CL, did you play in college?

I played HS football 1985, 86, & 87 (graduated in 88). We hit all the time and rarely had water breaks. We had to wear our helmets the ENTIRE practice and during games, no matter how hot it was. HS football in Florida was brutal! I remember afternoon thunderstorms and mud! I remember fire ants on the practice fields. I rarely remember drinking water! It was barbaric! I can't believe more kids didn't have heat related issues.

Practicing in the Georgia heat with full pads and contact in August was interesting.......I used to love how they made us run sprints after practice although I could see their rationale which was this will help you in the 4th Quarter....

Conan · Jul 10, 2014

USC's Kenny Bigelow just tore his ACL and is out for the year. His injury just happened to occur Monday during non-contact drills in a completely voluntary workout. Not saying that contact drills would have been any less risky, but the timing of his mishap is interesting. It seems to cancel any significance to the NCAA's non-contact recommendations.

Pretty weird coincidence.

rolltide · Jul 10, 2014

Conan said:
USC's Kenny Bigelow just tore his ACL and is out for the year. His injury just happened to occur Monday during non-contact drills in a completely voluntary workout. Not saying that contact drills would have been any less risky, but the timing of his mishap is interesting. It seems to cancel any significance to the NCAA's non-contact recommendations.

Pretty weird coincidence.

i remember SC's Farmer blew out his knee in a non-contact drill about the same time last season. Maybe they need to add MORE contact drills in so cal?

cloverleaf · Jul 13, 2014

RT brings up a good point. Receiver running a route with friends playing touch and blows out a knee.

I know this is CFB and I don't give a rats behind about the NFL...other than I'm in theRX NFL contest...(Nice Bucks) but ever wonder why the quarterbacks are injured some much. Hell, they never take hits until the game. They are not battle ready when it comes to injuries.

NFL QB's never get hit unless they are in a game. Nowdays, many CFB QBs are not hit until the game. As a player, coach, and strong follower of CFB....this shelter of a player does more harm than good in my humble opinion. I'm not saying kill the QB on Mondays but he needs to be roughed up on occasion. Hell, back in the 60s and 70s with Bear Bryant...the hotshot got hit.

Why the hell should the lineman hit which they do on a regular basis...they could get hurt ALSO!