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I’m not a football fan, but it seems to me that you have to practice tackling and escaping tackles to really get good at it.
Therefore, this seems like a stupid idea. See my tagline
Sarcastaball ?
Football is for p*ssies.
Real men watch and play hockey.
In the Army we always said you train like you fight.
I’m pretty sure the same applies here.
Well, there goes the current Ivy League domination of the SEC...
Why don’t they just drop football and switch to badminton?
And all players must wear pink undies.
I had a feeling that this last Super Bowl might be our last.
The conference that had the first college football game (Princeton vs Rutgers 1869) is making a mistake. When the players have to tackle in a game, there is much more chance of serious injury if they haven't been practicing proper techniques.
Freaking Pansies!
Practice teaches how to tackle and how to take a hit. Without full contact the Ivy League players will be hurt in regular games.
Yes, yes, the Ivy League was founded in the attempt to diminish the influence of athletics on academics - like no more scholarships for athletes (so the athletes are given lucratively paying “jobs” on campus for which they have to show up to work for a whole hour each week).....
I played football in the Ivy League. I know the quality of play is not as good as the big-time programs full of All-Americans at the huge state universities.
But it was a student activity that was fun for the players and hopefully entertaining when the teams were well-matched.
You can reduce the days of full contact practice, but I don’t see how you can inure a player to the hard contact of tackling unless he experiences it during practices. It’s simply part of the sport.
I can’t imagine all the coaches voting for this change unless they were pressured by the Deans and Presidents whose only experience with contact sports is in their bedrooms.
Somewhere in a cabin in the hills of central Pennsylvania, Jack Lambert chuckles maniacally.....
Wait - I know! Maybe they can hang strips of cloth on their belts and “tackle” by pulling the strips......
Fight fiercely, Harvard.