Aaaaahhhhhh yes especially the part about your "that said I've been bitching about Moffit since last". Did you not say that?
Well I don't know about conditioning being the reason or not but do think too much contact after the first 2 weeks in heat and your body is just more vulnerable to injuries. I think big cat may fire up the team but im not sure what value from a game perspective it brings versus the risk of injury. Save the contact for the games as we get closer to start. I have seen it up close when I was in college as we lost some players doing stupid unnecessary contact drills and it probably cost us a few games one year.. And sometimes Like Terry said it is a tough game and some can be just outright bad luck.
You have to have contact scrimmages up until the first game. The players have to be conditioned to and adjust to being hit. It's a part of the game. Back in the leather helmet days I suffered a non contact ankle injury that hindered me the entire season.
Because I believe a. the obvious hurdle in our path is Alabama, b. we can't beat them because we can't move the ball on them, and c. we can't move the ball on them because they are clearly so much stronger than us on the interior line that Stevie Wonder could see it in a blackout.
I did...and did you not say, "Thomas's has an ankle injury requiring surgery which has nothing to do with conditioning.", which is also what I said in my OP?
