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I agree. Besides, our players practice against the best players in the country, far better than any team we've played. When elite go against elite in practice, anything can happen. Go Dawgs!
It's a conundrum, how hard these guys should go in practice. Generally speaking, I think you go as hard as you can, since practice habits transfer to game time habits. Plus iron sharpens iron. But these injuries sure are hard to swallow. Go Dawgs!
That's a shame. Get well soon Arian.
Never mind, found it on another news site! He broke his leg
Oh, right. I mean, there have a only been a few this year. Probably just a fluke.
UGA has recorded thirteen or more groin and leg/ankle injuries we know about. Arian Smith has played very little since last year. I think two games. Now he again waits til next season. There is something on the practice field that is affecting the feet and legs. Commenters have mentioned this before. Salyer has been out with a foot injury. Ameer Speed, ankle. Several ACLs. Puzzling.
I will be pissed if he has been trying to play with a stress fracture this whole season.
Get well young man and we're praying for you.
Couldn't agree more with UGA66. Someone needs to check the practice field turf and foundation and see if it's causing this. Statistically, the likelihood that this many players all have these practice-related, leg-oriented issues at the same time without some common externality (e.g., practice field, poor conditioning staff. etc.) seems small... 🙄
Ok, regarding this idea that Smart is to blame for these injuries. I suppose on the surface it's as good a guess as any. We hear how hard they practice, we see the injuries, dots are connected. Fine. But here's what I don't get: Why now?
So, the assertion is that losing half the two-deep (or anything close to that) is just a natural and inevitable consequence of running the program the way Smart runs it. But if that's the case, then why is it only showing up now in year 6? I mean, if you can't accept bad luck as an explanation for why we're in this situation, then you certainly can't say that we've avoided it for the past several years as a result of good luck. So if the current injury situation is simply what's to be expected from running practices the way they're being run, then that must mean Smart hadn't been doing it this way prior to this year. Which would mean that entering his 6th season as a head coach, he up and changed his philosophy on how to run his program. And so ardently does he believe in this way of doing things that he's never felt the need to adhere to previously, that even as the significant injuries have mounted immediately and incessantly, he doesn't see any reason to depart from this newfound approach.
And I guess the same basic question could be asked of the turf theory.
I'm not looking for a fight on this. ****, at this point I'm ready to believe just about anything. But this seems like a fairly obvious question to me, which as far as I can tell hasn't been acknowledged. What say y'all?
Inappropriate, out of place, and uncalled for. It's a fan site, not a dive bar. Wasn't in a game, either, so maybe try being accurate, with all due respect.
Nothing you said had any truth or thought in it, just calm down.
There are a myriad of reasons players get injured. But it appears that uga has more injuries during practice, then games. Why? Coaching/practice intensity? Turf? Conditioning? It is indisputable that the frequency of severe foot and knee injuries is much higher, this year. We are well beyond the "Crap! Oh well. Next man up!" phase. I'm sure the coaching staff is looking at everything. Just wish they could figure it out, now.