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Clonefan32

Clonefan32

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One hallmark of Campbell's tenure has been his secrecy about injuries. It's almost to the point where if you learn that a guy has an injury of any sort, you just assume he's gone for the year. There's a lot of "he's practicng" or "he's getting close", only for that player to stay of the shelf for several more weeks, or in many cases the whole year.

Does Campbell just have a habit of downplaying the seriousness of injuries, or is he just extremely cautious about bringing guys back early? I'm all for being cautious when it comes to a player's health, but it gets kind of tiring seeing Hines' game day tweet every week about all the players being held out when there was some optimism they will play.
 
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Clonefan32 said:
One hallmark of Campbell's tenure has been his secrecy about injuries. It's almost to the point where if you learn that a guy has an injury of any sort, you just assume he's gone for the year. There's a lot of "he's practicng" or "he's getting close", only for that player to stay of the shelf for several more weeks, or in many cases the whole year.

Does Campbell just have a habit of downplaying the seriousness of injuries, or is he just extremely cautious about bringing guys back early? I'm all for being cautious when it comes to a player's health, but it gets kind of tiring seeing Hines' game day tweet every week about all the players being held out when there was some optimism they will play.
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If one does not have to be honest about injuries, then why would you be as a head coach?
 
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I believe I read that next year each team will have to release an injury report, like they do in the NFL. Now how accurate that report will be is anyone guess, but at least we will know the players that are out or a game time decision before each game.
 
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1SEIACLONE said:
I believe I read that next year each team will have to release an injury report, like they do in the NFL. Now how accurate that report will be is anyone guess, but at least we will know the players that are out or a game time decision before each game.
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As they should. The Cam Rising situation highlighted that as NIL money for highly visible players and positions increases, fans and donors are going to feel a more personal stake in the status of that player. With Utah, it got to the point that their fans were getting nasty towards Rising and Wittingham. This guy was getting millions just to stay on the bench? Just tell the people why he cant play!
 
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1SEIACLONE said:
I believe I read that next year each team will have to release an injury report, like they do in the NFL. Now how accurate that report will be is anyone guess, but at least we will know the players that are out or a game time decision before each game.
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I think Yormark wants to make this mandatory like the SEC does
 
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gocy444 said:
There is zero reason for him to say if guys are healthy. Other teams will need to plan for a guy if they think he might play. Until injury reports are a thing he’ll continue to do this and he should.
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I don't follow other teams close enough to know the answer to this, but do other teams have as many long term injuries as we do? It just seems like if someone is out, they are out for a minimum of a month. Hansen is about the only exception I can think of at the moment, and I guess maybe Verdon playing with the cast.
 
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I don't follow other teams close enough to know the answer to this, but do other teams have as many long term injuries as we do? It just seems like if someone is out, they are out for a minimum of a month. Hansen is about the only exception I can think of at the moment, and I guess maybe Verdon playing with the cast.
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I would say other guys on our team have short term injuries affecting them, but we just don't know it. No benefit for our team to make it public so our opponent knows someone may not be 100%.
 
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As they should. The Cam Rising situation highlighted that as NIL money for highly visible players and positions increases, fans and donors are going to feel a more personal stake in the status of that player. With Utah, it got to the point that their fans were getting nasty towards Rising and Wittingham. This guy was getting millions just to stay on the bench? Just tell the people why he cant play!
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That is absolutely a fair reaction. You can't take the money and not expect the scrutiny that comes with it.

Honestly I think you owe it to your ticketholders anyway, even without NIL. I think the strategic advantage is overblown, particularly when most of this playing coy around injuries goes in one direction - it's almost always worse than we're letting on. Gets pretty predictable.
 
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Injury reports are needed and will be mandatory probably by next year. Not sure how to enforce the “honesty” of it. I believe the SEC has fines in place but how you prove anything is past my knowledge.

Ole Miss basically listed their entire starting lineup as questionable last week against Georgia.
 
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67CY said:
Why do we have so many injuries?
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I’ve thrown this out there in a few threads, but can’ hasn’t gotten much discussion.

I get get that it’s football. And bad luck. Etc. But we have a fairly new S&C coach. Hard not to wonder if there’s a link there. Overtraining, under training, I don’t know. But it’s outrageous this year.
 
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1SEIACLONE said:
I believe I read that next year each team will have to release an injury report, like they do in the NFL. Now how accurate that report will be is anyone guess, but at least we will know the players that are out or a game time decision before each game.
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Campbell will just put most of the players as Day-to-Day or Questionable.

Carson Willich - Questionable
Daniel Jackson - Questionable
 
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ClubCy said:
Injury reports are needed and will be mandatory probably by next year. Not sure how to enforce the “honesty” of it. I believe the SEC has fines in place but how you prove anything is past my knowledge.

Ole Miss basically listed their entire starting lineup as questionable last week against Georgia.
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I would guess they will try to enforce it the same way the NFL does, if a team is listing players as possible to play, but everyone knows they are out, then the league will issue them a warning and then if it continues the leagues will fine the school. Just like the SEC will be doing to Ol Miss today for having their fans rush the field after beating Georgia.
 
BMWallace said:
As they should. The Cam Rising situation highlighted that as NIL money for highly visible players and positions increases, fans and donors are going to feel a more personal stake in the status of that player. With Utah, it got to the point that their fans were getting nasty towards Rising and Wittingham. This guy was getting millions just to stay on the bench? Just tell the people why he cant play!
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Agree. I am glad to hear that injury reports are coming.
 
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Rabbuk said:
I'd put everyone as probable.
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In the NFL, "Probably" is not an option anymore. The NFL injury reports are about as 'transparent' as possible and then of course a final designation a number of hours before kickoff.
 
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