Ole Miss releases statement on 'feigned injuries' controversy ahead of LSU game
Ole Miss has been accused of faking injuries this season.
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Sounds like little Lane got in trouble
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I'm sure they have extensive medical documentation to back up each and every "injury."
Meh. This is nothing. I’ll believe they’ll do anything about it when I see it.
It’s just poor sportsmanship, basically cheating. they need to institute a rule where you have to sit out a certain amount of plays every time you fake injuries to disrupt play.
My vote would be until the next change of possession.
I, for one, think people who ***** about fake injuries should just get over it.
I hope Ole Miss fakes an injury on every play tomorrow.
ETA: Ole Miss’s statement was incredibly stupid imo. It is basically an admission of something everyone knows but can’t prove. They should have changed nothing until if and when the rules are changed.
I hope Ole Miss fakes an injury on every play tomorrow.
ETA: Ole Miss’s statement was incredibly stupid imo. It is basically an admission of something everyone knows but can’t prove. They should have changed nothing until if and when the rules are changed.
It ain't a real issue until someone unbiased like "Not a Fan" reports it.Ole Miss releases statement on 'feigned injuries' controversy ahead of LSU game
Ole Miss has been accused of faking injuries this season.www.saturdaydownsouth.com
Would this not be viewed as incentivizing players to play through injuries? Seems like a liability issue.
ETA: I think the happy medium is until the next first down. If the issue is the defense trying to slow down the offense, sitting until the next first down is usually a max of 3 plays (more in the case of penalties/repeated downs). That isn’t as punitive as the entire possession and should adequately disincentivize faking injuries (for the most part).
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Spoken like a true Rebel
Maybe not this season but Ole Miss is sure making it hard for the people in charge to look the other way.
He spells his name Spenser. First time I’ve ever seen that.
The OM narrative is "we meant to do that". They say Lane is doing it on purpose to make the conference address it. They say Lane complained about it being done to them to slow them down, and the conference ignored him. We all know that's total BS, and just OM being OM. He really is perfect for OM. No other coach could fit that douche fan base better
If teams would use code words for flopping, I don’t see where you could stop it. Being stupid and obvious, yes.
It can be stopped. All the rules' makers have to do is say if he is truly injured, he needs to sit out until the next series or if they want him back in it will cost them a time out. They can make rules that will stop it without penalizing guys who are really hurt. All kine of ideas out there to stop it without penalizing a hurt guy. It's going to take a school like GA, LSU and Bama complaining to make it happened.
Ok. Consider this- Why does the fake injury issue only get a memo issued but the conference is more than willing to fine 2 schools for rushing a TURF field? Where’s the common sense in that? Oh, I forgot we’re talking about a conference who allowed Missouri in simply because of a tv market. Piss on them.
Egg Bowl , on every defensive we are rotating d lineman every play anyway so the lineman going out should just fall down and require assistance. We can get a few walkon athletic trainers because the real guys would get awfully tired. It’s not going to stop til someone brings it to a head.
Can we address Those two ball headed 17 tards, that run on the field with the smelling sauce and icy hot every time one of those 1mm dollar DL’s hit the ground…
I’ve coined them the “Boo Man Group”
All they’re missing is the PVC pipe organ drum set and a third member tossing rainbow colored paint into the air.
I’ve coined them the “Boo Man Group”
All they’re missing is the PVC pipe organ drum set and a third member tossing rainbow colored paint into the air.
My point was it could be stopped. It's going to take the AD, School President and HC for the right schools to get involve for it to happen.
I don’t think so. If you’re really too injured to continue, sitting out one play really isn’t a lot of time to heal anyway.
You could make the argument it would do the opposite because it would take away any sideline pressure to go back into the game before the injured player is ready.
It’s not cheating. It’s allowed by the rules. But they should change the rules.
1st injury - 1 play
2nd - 2 plays
3rd - 3 plays
something to make it where people won’t do it as much.
But it definitely is poor sportsmanship.
//poster in college and back after15 year sabbatical
IMO if the trainers have to come onto the field to help you the injury is serious enough to require you to wait at least 3 plays. Next first down seems a good compromise.
That said, it seems like a management issue for the league. Is a new position created to keep up with injuries and play eligibility? The league has proven to be much better at just fining schools after the fact rather than actually addressing things that affect gameplay/outcomes.
IMO if the trainers have to come onto the field to help you the injury is serious enough to require you to wait at least 3 plays. Next first down seems a good compromise.
That said, it seems like a management issue for the league. Is a new position created to keep up with injuries and play eligibility? The league has proven to be much better at just fining schools after the fact rather than actually addressing things that affect gameplay/outcomes.
Actually, I read yesterday that the word is ESPN had complained to the conference office that it was messing up their game tv schedule and making games too long
They neither confirmed nor denied. Just a long string of words that meant nothing.
Something like that seems familiar but I can't quite place it ....
Something like that seems familiar but I can't quite place it ....
Egg Bowl.
First play of the game.
MSU sends out the 2nd stringers. And they all fall down with “cramps” before the ball is even snapped.
How much more of a message do you need?
First play of the game.
MSU sends out the 2nd stringers. And they all fall down with “cramps” before the ball is even snapped.
How much more of a message do you need?
It would be hilarious if a team did the domino style, full team fake injury. The DE just all of a sudden falls into a DT and it just snake style dominoes until it reaches far CB.
All 11 players down
All 11 players down
I think people are focusing on fake injuries right now, but the same people will not be happy when key players get a stinger then have to sit out 10+ play drives.
More than curbing fake injuries, fans want the best players in at the key moments in the game.
Maybe you can call timeout to get your injured players back in the game, but you only have three timeouts. And I prefer timeouts used in 2-minute drills rather than just to get my key defensive player in the game during a key drive.
I just don’t think people understand how the proposed rule changes would drastically change the game. It could be more disruptive than fake injuries, but it seems no one is considering that possibility.
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No, it only incentivizes players to play through things that are not severe enough to prevent them from getting off the field on their own power, which is the way it should work. Player can either stay in and play through it, or take themselves out and get treatment on the sideline, and in neither of those cases would they have to sit. But if player goes down and trainers come out, you gotta go out for the rest of the quarter, for 5 minutes of game time, or some very extended period of time.-
Anything above the waist that’s a legit injury, you should either be able to still get off the field, or its something like concussion or neck / back where you need to sit out for a bit anyway. Anything below the waist that is a legit injury, you’re not helping your team by staying out there anyway, and you should sit. You scrape your knee or some crap like that, run off the field and get your band-aid.
ETA: You can also add an exception for injuries that occur as a result of a penalty on the other team. For example, an injury caused by facemask, holding, targeting, chop block, horse collar tackle, or something like that requires no sitting out. This prevents teams from putting a bounty on the QB or another key player. Also, you could even make it only apply to players that go down between the whistle and the next snap. If they go down during the play, its treated differently than going down after the whistle is blown and before the next snap. There are all sorts of ways to address this.
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