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Post by coachcalande on Aug 8, 2006 14:53:33 GMT -6
every year it seems i lose an athlete or two to stupid injuries. got an email that my biggest, strongest qb candidate (also de) wont be ready to go...broken arm. fell off his bike...
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Post by brophy on Aug 8, 2006 15:53:08 GMT -6
last year we lost our stud QB to playing a pickup game of basketball 2 days before the season....what ya gonna do?
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Post by wildcat on Aug 8, 2006 16:32:48 GMT -6
Had an all-Area lineman fall off of a golf cart and severely sprain his ankle the day before practice began...kid wasn't even golfing...just screwing around and playing grab-ass with his buddies. He wasn't able to play until Week Three.
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Post by airman on Aug 8, 2006 16:33:54 GMT -6
not much you really can do with this situation. hope for the best.
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Aug 8, 2006 21:13:02 GMT -6
When you say "bikes" do you mean Schwinn or Harley? We've got about 7 kids who ride motorcycles (and one did get minor injuries in an accident this spring), and I think those who don't have a "bike" have a 3 or 4 wheeler. I suppose I can't really say much since there are 3 bikers on staff...
Well, I gotta go to bed... heading to Sturgis in the AM (seriously... I'll be out there for ONE day... then back to get ready for Sat. parent's meeting and Monday practice).
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Aug 8, 2006 21:20:38 GMT -6
I don't know why I thought of this... but (speaking of dumb injuries) when I was in college we played the last game of the year my soph. year on the road. We went to eat at Denny's in the AM and the parking lot was covered in ice. Well, there was this HUGE ice patch and a lot of us ran up to it and slid across... then this big (starter) O-Lineman gets up there and follows the backs, receivers, etc... slides, twists, rolls, yells in pain... and can not get up because he broke his ankle. Obviously the entire team knew, but when we arrived back on campus we went along with his story that he hurt himself in the game. Well, we let that last a few days...
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Post by tothehouse on Aug 8, 2006 21:25:33 GMT -6
3 summers ago it wasn't bikes or basketball...it was cliff jumping.
A starting LB as a junior, one of our players decided to jump off a cliff in Yosemite. He did great the first time. The second time he slipped and didn't get far enough away from the cliff to avoid the rocks below.
The doctors said that if he wasn't wearing shoes he would have died. Instead he broke both ankles and two vertebrae in his back. When his friends came for him they found that the impact of the collision broke both shoes in half as they were found still tied around both knees!!!!!!!
Lucky to be alive. His season was obviously finished.
That opened the door a for a junior to step in and play that year. This past fall the two year starter because a top player in our area. He probably wouldn't have sniffed the field if it weren't for the cliff jumping accident. Very glad to see someone take advantage of an opportunity.
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Post by groundchuck on Aug 8, 2006 21:26:36 GMT -6
We lost 3 kids over a 5 year stretch to motocross accidents. One kid was 6-3 255# and thought he was going to be a pro motocross rider. The other two were wannabes too. The big kid I mention played only 1 game for me in 3 years. Sophomore year he broke his ankle. Following year in August he got run over by a jet ski. Then the following summer he all set to play as a senior... he gets run over by a dirt bike after falling off his during a race. Needless to say he is not a kid I would want to be standing next to around anything sharp, heavy, or motorized.
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Post by tog on Aug 8, 2006 22:15:09 GMT -6
I like recruiting skater dudes though, they laugh at pain
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Post by ocinaz on Aug 8, 2006 23:39:02 GMT -6
We have lost a few to motorcross accidents, had one kid that would have started for us this year, nearly kill himself riding a streetbike, he is paralyzed on his left side and looks like sh*t. He came to some summer stuff, and it was very tough seeing him like that.
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Post by wildcat on Aug 9, 2006 5:02:19 GMT -6
I like recruiting skater dudes though, they laugh at pain The good ones tend be really good athletes, too. Takes a ton of balance, agility, coordination, and cahones to be good on a skateboard... It's the wannabees who I can't stand...the guys who walk around with a skateboard, listen to the music, wear the clothes, but have no skill (talk the talk but can't walk the walk). Our starting F-S TE (6-0, 220) is a stud athlete and has actually done some amateur skateboarding competitions. He's good! |
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Post by wildcat on Aug 9, 2006 5:03:31 GMT -6
We lost 3 kids over a 5 year stretch to motocross accidents. One kid was 6-3 255# and thought he was going to be a pro motocross rider. The other two were wannabes too. The big kid I mention played only 1 game for me in 3 years. Sophomore year he broke his ankle. Following year in August he got run over by a jet ski. Then the following summer he all set to play as a senior... he gets run over by a dirt bike after falling off his during a race. Needless to say he is not a kid I would want to be standing next to around anything sharp, heavy, or motorized. Chuck - That's the funniest thing I have seen in a while! I spewed Diet Coke all over the monitor when I read the last sentence! ;D |
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Post by coachcalande on Aug 9, 2006 5:23:04 GMT -6
one year i lost a kid because he hit himself in the face with a brick...knocked his own teeth out...not exactly sure ...same week i lost a starting corner because he jumped off his roof...
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Post by baraboo99 on Aug 9, 2006 6:34:58 GMT -6
I'd rather have them ride bikes then mopeds/dirtbikes/motorcycles. In Finland they have the intelligent idea that at 16 you are too young to drive a car but you are ok to drive a moped or low cc motorcycle on the open road. Because of this I lost a very promising young running back for the season with a broken foot and the most talented junior WR I have ever seen for good with major facial injuries including partial loss of sight.
Unfortunately i can't ban players from riding these things...I wish their parents would....
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Post by coachjd on Aug 9, 2006 6:41:43 GMT -6
forget the bikes, skateboards, etc... just found out last night that our returning 1000 yard TB pulled his hamstring last weekend playing in a AAU basketball tourniment. Its a good thing our fricken basketball coach is out of town on vacation this week. I was ready to go kick is door down last night.
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Post by tog on Aug 9, 2006 7:11:56 GMT -6
forget the bikes, skateboards, etc... just found out last night that our returning 1000 yard TB pulled his hamstring last weekend playing in a AAU basketball tourniment. Its a good thing our fricken basketball coach is out of town on vacation this week. I was ready to go kick is door down last night. yeah, i can understand when kids get hurt doing stupid stuff on their own, but AAU during football season is the absolute devil |
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Post by kdcoach on Aug 10, 2006 5:01:15 GMT -6
I hate anything motorized!! Had two starting kids last year (one who is playing in college this year) to a car accident coming to summer camp. They were running a little late the kid that was driving went airborne and flipped his car. Broke his collarbone. The other one was just badly bruised. They totaled three other cars when they landed....lucky to be alive. I also hate trampolines!!
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Post by jjkuenzel on Aug 10, 2006 10:01:32 GMT -6
This past spring we had our former starting QB who was also a stud baseball player go wakeboarding and sprain his knee 2 days before the state baseball tournament. He hit 4th, caught, and was the #2 pticher. Needless to say there was some holes to fill. The team still ended up finishing 2nd, but you wonder if they couldn't have won it with him. I felt bad for him, but at the same time I wonder what was he thinking. I would have given my left pinky to play in a state tournament and he decides that wakeboarding is a good idea.
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Aug 10, 2006 22:53:34 GMT -6
Just got home about 2 hours ago... found out our starting LB who would probably also start at TE was kicked in the head by a horse. Rodeo kid... not sure of all particulars at this point. Talked to dad, who said the kid is doing well (for being kicked by a horse). He is now out a minimum of 6 weeks. Probably will be back in mid season... but no one has given anything definitive. I am dreading this season more than ANY I have EVER coached.
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Post by groundchuck on Aug 11, 2006 4:20:17 GMT -6
Last night I went and met with a coach who told me his best returning player is in a coma after getting in an ATV accident. Sad, very sad situation.
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Post by gulfcoastoffense on Aug 12, 2006 23:03:36 GMT -6
Glad to see I'm not alone then! The worst year I have been in coaching so far happened 4 years ago. 6 players quit the week before practice because a few of their parents were starting one of those travel baseball teams for a fall baseball season. Too bad for them that those were the only 6 who signed up for the baseball team. That same year, we had 17 injuries to starters or key players. 9 were broken collarbones! 3 were skateboarding accidents. 1 kid tore his ACL the first day in pads on the first play during scrimmage. 1 broke his arm at basketball camp the weekend before practice learning how to take a charge. 1 dislocated shoulder during the first pre-game...falling down while trying to intercept a pass. 1 broke his ankle after getting it stepped on and rolling it going over punt....again, not even in pads yet. And the last one, no joke, got pinned under his 4 wheeler and broke both arms while riding it on the dang football field! He was suspended from school for that one, and kicked off the team needless to say. We went from 60 something players to 40 something in about a week. Won 1 game that year. The next year, with most of those 40 something who stuck it out, we lost 1 game, our last game of the year, 6-0 in a monsoon.
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Post by coachmacplains on Aug 18, 2006 12:17:24 GMT -6
How about dirt bikes. My starting QB (who happens to be my son) bit the dust trying a 40 foot jump on the cousins' Honda at the end of July. Life is sometimes learned the hard way, and he has learned one here. We're thankful he's still around, and as a bonus he'll be starting next Friday. But, no more dirt biking for quite some time. And, I wonder, whose kid would do such a dumb thing....  |
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Post by wingt74 on Aug 18, 2006 12:24:52 GMT -6
Some of the best football players have limited common sense. Take their bikes and skateboards away, and they'll find something else to do to hurt themselves.
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Post by fbdoc on Aug 18, 2006 15:35:33 GMT -6
We're in South Florida. I've lost kids to surfing accidents - board in the head, board in the shin, board up their .... you get the idea. We also have the ATV, the jet skis, dirt bikes, you name it! Had one kid last spring get bit while trying to snag gators with his dad! On the other hand one of our best DB/WR's is a skateboard stud. You just never know!
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Post by wingt74 on Aug 20, 2006 6:18:13 GMT -6
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Post by airman on Aug 20, 2006 10:19:51 GMT -6
the X games lifestyle which MTV permotes is what interests these kids.
I heard a X games guy say once, the great thing about extreme sports is, you do not have to lead a disciplined life style like the major sports athletes do.
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Post by fbdoc on Aug 20, 2006 14:10:05 GMT -6
X Games and extreme sports are the OPPOSITE of football. Football is 11 guys stiving together to work as a team. The X person is one individual with an obsession to stick out all by himself. Talented athlete? I guess, but he's still out there by himself. Even a wrestler, or a Pole Vaulter, sprinter, & shot putter is part of a TEAM.
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