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Post by husky44 on Jun 17, 2009 14:06:34 GMT -6
I am not a head coach so this may be a stupid question for those of you who are. I always hear my head coach complaining about our football budget but he insists on reconditioning the shoulder pads and helmets every year at a cost of thousands of dollars. Does your team recondition equipment every year?
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Post by touchdownmaker on Jun 17, 2009 14:15:26 GMT -6
yes. Every helmet and shoulder pad that is used goes out. Youd be stupid not do that. We had one helmet returned as a reject and the pads from that helmet were used to fix two other helmets that were screwy.
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Post by fbdoc on Jun 17, 2009 16:29:39 GMT -6
We rotate every other year - one year helmets and the next shoulder pads. IF our conditioner feels that a particular helmet(s) needs an annual fix then we give him that call. For our players who are heavy hitter 2 way players we always send their stuff out every year.
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Post by touchdownmaker on Jun 17, 2009 17:00:54 GMT -6
Liability wise I wonder if one would be held to be negligent if they chose not to recondition a helmet and a kid were injured? fbdoc? any idea what the best course of action is there to really protect yourself? what would be considered "prudent" in terms of how often to recondition?
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Post by chadp56 on Jun 17, 2009 17:19:44 GMT -6
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Post by airraider on Jun 17, 2009 18:18:02 GMT -6
I am not a head coach so this may be a stupid question for those of you who are. I always hear my head coach complaining about our football budget but he insists on reconditioning the shoulder pads and helmets every year at a cost of thousands of dollars. Does your team recondition equipment every year? The district I am in now, and the previous one.. both paid for reconditioning. If you have Riddell.. then they have to be reconditioned every two years.. and have a shelf life of I believe 7 years.. |
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Post by mitch on Jun 17, 2009 21:44:57 GMT -6
I recondition helmets every year. Never shoulder pads.
All they do with shoulder pads is take the pads out and clean them. The cost for shoulder pad reconditioning is so close to getting a new pad, I just don't see the point.
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Post by touchdownmaker on Jun 18, 2009 3:13:14 GMT -6
the shoulder pads can grow nasty stuff that can spread to your players and to players of other schools. Impetego was a problem in Pa a couple of seasons ago.
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Post by colmesneilfan1 on Jun 18, 2009 15:50:59 GMT -6
We do helmets and shoulder pads every year.....
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Post by champ93 on Jun 20, 2009 19:08:55 GMT -6
Helmuts every year
Shoulder pads have been sent out for disenfecting sine the MRSA scare last year. The lockerroom does smell better.
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Post by atalbert on Jun 23, 2009 12:25:23 GMT -6
Just got both reconditioned. What was real nice of the company doing it was they rejected 13 of our helmets and didn't notify us at all.
I don't mind them rejecting, that's their job, but now we have 13 helmets completely stripped and with the sizing stickers taken off and no documentation to tell us what sizes they were.
Judging by the fact that we are about 9 large helmets short, its a safe guess that at least 9 of the 13 were larges. It would be nice (and maybe too easy) to e-mail or send a letter saying "we rejected the following..." so we could then put an order together to replace them before the kids needed them.
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Post by eghscoach on Jun 28, 2009 7:02:28 GMT -6
You are a lot more apt to get sued over a head injury (and more liable with non-reconditioned helmet) thn a shoulder injury. Besides, many more shoulder injuries are unrelated to shoiulder pads than head injuries related to helmets. We do most (or all) helmets yearly, only sed in shoulder pads we cannot fix ourselves (broken rivets, etc). If you have a lot of money, for MRSA resons, shoulder pad reconditioning is great (and your recon rep will love you)! But I would encourage all to recon helmets yearly for your sake as well as your players.
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