The @SEC ran this TV ad over the weekend, thar provides a link to a website. The ad and the website make many false claims, the most egregious being that the SCORE Act, in its current form, is supported by every D1 conference in America. This is NOT true. In fact, the large majority of conferences and their members (including many members of the Power 4) believe that the SCORE Act needs to be amended and modified so that women’s sports, Olympic sports, smaller schools, and the Student Athletes can be protected and represented in the final solution.
Yes, the SCORE Act is a good start, and we are all grateful that DC is finally paying attention to the existential issues facing college sports, but we ALL need to come together (Big Schools, Small Schools, Women’s Sports, Olympic Sports AND the Student Athletes),to come up with a compromised and comprehensive solution that works for the betterment of the entire system - not just major college football. 500,000 Student Athletes and hundreds of communities are depending on us! Deception and dishonesty, as displayed through this @SEC ad, only drive a wedge between what we were hopeful was becoming a constructive and productive conversation. Let’s get this discussion back on track and work together to find the right solutions that will preserve the Great American Institution of College Athletics!!
Congratulations to our leader @CUnderwood46 on his 100th career victory as head coach tonight with a 38-14 win over Clayton! A true leader of men. Congrats again, Coach! #1TEAM
@TRHLofficial I did my best to love you, now do your best to leave.
Robert Cray
I was smokin’ and drinkin’ and thinkin when you walked by.
The next thing I knew, I was thinkin up my alibi… yes I was.
Robert Cray
110% - Same thing happened to me throughout my career… my teammates that spent all summer running 110’s and 300 yard shuttles to “get ready” for conditioning test and camp. I did the opposite. Nothing less than max speed effort - with absolutely minimal “running”.
Guess who was ready for actual football?
The goal isn’t to go longer than everyone else and not “get tired”.
The goal is to be faster, absorb force and create force better and longer than everyone else. You don’t absorb or create enough force during by conditioning.
I can also claim that never once in my career - college or NFL - did I experience a cramp in game or practice - and It had little to do with hydration - because my nervous system was prepared for what I was asking it to do. Force absorption is the name of the game.…
We’ve seen the same thing with our High School kids. Once we changed the way we train and got rid of the nonsensical conditioning, we are faster and in far superior condition. We have almost zero soft tissue sprains or tweaks. In fact, the only kids who do have some sort of issue are the ones who didn’t show up to train consistently or had their own “private” trainer that overworked them.
In my short time working with High School kids - I have learned a fast lesson that “Burning the Steak” is a real thing with conditioning / sub maximal work being one of the primary offenders..
From early morning workouts, school, and all the other things in their schedule they do not recover enough to be at the best.
Final note… Nothing sucks the life out of a performance based culture than mind numbing conditioning….
Keep up the good work Tony!