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Rocktheworld said:
Well one of them screwed it up so bad he somehow got concussed. Unless they also did some basketball stuff, it's kind of odd that that is one of the injuries that occurred
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Opinions, and not necessarily supported by any actual documented facts nor by projected direct insights on the injuries. For all anyone who was not in attendance actually knows, Vital could have tripped and hit his head on the court, on some other guy's noggin, or even on Whaley's shoulder (Edit: Or, more likely on some guy's elbow while running a screen as the quote in HuskyMedic's post suggests) ;).

However, even Keefe's and Borges' tweets provide no specifics on the 2 unclear injuries nor insights on the severity at this point. With increasingly growing focus on concussions in sports, perhaps UConn's just being really cautious. None of us have direct reason to know much more at this early stage.
 
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huskymedic said:
“Christian Vital had to go through concussion protocol after taking an elbow to the head on a screen”

“Sophomore Christian Vital, who went to the sidelines after running into a screen, will be checked out for a possible concussion.“
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Gotcha, so they were doing basketball stuff. I was off on that.
 
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
Opinions, and not necessarily supported by any actual documented facts nor by projected direct insights on the injuries. For all anyone who was not in attendance actually knows, Vital could have tripped and hit his head on the court, on some other guy's noggin, or even on Whaley's shoulder. Even Keefe's and Borges' tweets provide no specifics on the 2 unclear injuries nor insights on the severity at this point. With increasingly growing focus on concussions in sports, perhaps UConn's just being really cautious. None of us have reason to know at this early stage.
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I agree, its the new norm as we saw last season. Its frustrating for everyone but its the right thing to do.
 
During practice today, one of the new players had his shoe untied (I won't mention who, because I don't want to come down too hard on the kid). Ollie didn't notice it and the kid tripped over his shoelace and almost hurt himself badly. Had Ollie noticed the untied lace or been paying attention, he could have saved the kid a potential career-ending knee injury. Most other coaches would have been on top of it. The lack of attention to detail continues by our HC, and it will surely destroy the season and the many seasons to come. Laugh all you want about Louisville, but at least their new head coach pays attention to details.
 
upstater said:
During practice today, one of the new players had his shoe untied (I won't mention who, because I don't want to come down too hard on the kid). Ollie didn't notice it and the kid tripped over his shoelace and almost hurt himself badly. Had Ollie noticed the untied lace or been paying attention, he could have saved the kid a potential career-ending knee injury. Most other coaches would have been on top of it. The lack of attention to detail continues by our HC, and it will surely destroy the season and the many seasons to come. Laugh all you want about Louisville, but at least their new head coach pays attention to details.
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You must be the guy on the receiving end of this
 
upstater said:
During practice today, one of the new players had his shoe untied (I won't mention who, because I don't want to come down too hard on the kid). Ollie didn't notice it and the kid tripped over his shoelace and almost hurt himself badly. Had Ollie noticed the untied lace or been paying attention, he could have saved the kid a potential career-ending knee injury. Most other coaches would have been on top of it. The lack of attention to detail continues by our HC, and it will surely destroy the season and the many seasons to come. Laugh all you want about Louisville, but at least their new head coach pays attention to details.
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u got to be kidding me. This is on the player. When u r in D1 basketball. There r expectations coming in. These include being in playing shape. know how to tied your shoes n keep them tied. I have seen a player lost their shoes in a game. never a stop play due to untied shoelaces
 
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Whtdmd said:
u got to be kidding me. This is on the player. When u r in D1 basketball. There r expectations coming in. These include being in playing shape. know how to tied your shoes n keep them tied. I have seen a player lost their shoes in a game. never a stop play due to untied shoelaces
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Whtdmd said:
u got to be kidding me. This is on the player. When u r in D1 basketball. There r expectations coming in. These include being in playing shape. know how to tied your shoes n keep them tied. I have seen a player lost their shoes in a game. never a stop play due to untied shoelaces
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Sarcasm alert. Unfortunately the take wasnt that far off from bineyard reality.
 
Don't care if the sky is falling or not nor do I care why or why not. No more excuses. Let's see what happens on the court. If the results are good, no problem. If they are bad again, someone needs to be held accountable, no excuses.
 
Huskymagic said:
PS: If every elbow a UCONN player receives requires mandatory concussion protocols, we're going to be in trouble.
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You are insufferable.

I heard Adams got nicked by a bicycle on campus yesterday. If he's going to get hit by bicycles on campus all the time we are in for a tough season.

Now do you how understand how some of your posts sound?
 
Huskymagic said:
Gilbert is a chronic injury waiting to flare up at any time. That is not somebody who you can rely on to lead the team or be an important piece.

Why is Ollie waiting until now to order a sturdier shoulder brace for Rique? With or without shoulder brace he will be a target for opposing teams. Too many of the same things starting to surface.

PS: If every elbow a UCONN player receives requires mandatory concussion protocols, we're going to be in trouble.
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It wasn't the elbow. It was the concussion
 
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Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
Opinions, and not necessarily supported by any actual documented facts nor by projected direct insights on the injuries. For all anyone who was not in attendance actually knows, Vital could have tripped and hit his head on the court, on some other guy's noggin, or even on Whaley's shoulder (Edit: Or, more likely on some guy's elbow while running a screen as the quote in HuskyMedic's post suggests) ;).

However, even Keefe's and Borges' tweets provide no specifics on the 2 unclear injuries nor insights on the severity at this point. With increasingly growing focus on concussions in sports, perhaps UConn's just being really cautious. None of us have direct reason to know much more at this early stage.
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Checking guys out is a good thing and fortunately we adjusted our protocol after the embarsssing circus the first half of last season. Doran works hard and is a good trainer - but like most employees he needs some guidance on occasion.
 
I will say this, when Calhoun and Blaney sat around and talked for what seemed like hours, this level of detail would come up.
 
Chief00 said:
Checking guys out is a good thing and fortunately we adjusted our protocol after the embarsssing circus the first half of last season. Doran works hard and is a good trainer - but like most employees he needs some guidance on occasion.
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How exactly has the concussion protocol changed this year from last? And why exactly. I assume it's the same or similar for all sports.
 
huskymedic said:
From the Day article...

>>Ollie added a twist this year, bringing in ROTC members to run drills at the beginning of the roughly three hour, 45 minute practice. The Huskies did a training session with the ROTC earlier this fall.

"That was a surprise," Adams said. "When we saw a couple of random guys coming into the gym, they looked familiar. They were ready to work. They were pushing us. They had us doing push-ups on command, sit-ups, wall-to-wall sprints. A whole bunch of different workouts. Physically demanding."<<

Seems quite reasonable to me (as long as I’m not being made to participate - then they are as draconian and inappropriate as some are making them out to be);)
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Gee, push-ups, sit-ups and sprints. No basketball player should ever be put through such torture.
 
The BY chicken littles are back.
It was a nice two or three weeks.

Possible concussion caused by playing basketball.
Please consider the possibility that AG had the proper brace but things changed. And he was kept out of practice.
 
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intlzncster said:
How exactly has the concussion protocol changed this year from last? And why exactly. I assume it's the same or similar for all sports.
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It changed during the season last year and was noted at the time by Chief.
 
upstater said:
During practice today, one of the new players had his shoe untied (I won't mention who, because I don't want to come down too hard on the kid). Ollie didn't notice it and the kid tripped over his shoelace and almost hurt himself badly. Had Ollie noticed the untied lace or been paying attention, he could have saved the kid a potential career-ending knee injury. Most other coaches would have been on top of it. The lack of attention to detail continues by our HC, and it will surely destroy the season and the many seasons to come. Laugh all you want about Louisville, but at least their new head coach pays attention to details.
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At Louisville, all the prostitutes used protection. You don't get that kind of attention to detail at other programs.
 
Chief00 said:
It changed during the season last year and was noted at the time by Chief.
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Pretty sure there's a relatively standard concussion protocol/guidelines that NCAA institutions need to adhere to...

Yup.

Unless you have clear evidence that they've decided to walk out on a legal limb in managing their student athletes.
 
upstater said:
During practice today, one of the new players had his shoe untied (I won't mention who, because I don't want to come down too hard on the kid). Ollie didn't notice it and the kid tripped over his shoelace and almost hurt himself badly. Had Ollie noticed the untied lace or been paying attention, he could have saved the kid a potential career-ending knee injury. Most other coaches would have been on top of it. The lack of attention to detail continues by our HC, and it will surely destroy the season and the many seasons to come. Laugh all you want about Louisville, but at least their new head coach pays attention to details.
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Ollie is not the only one on the court. Anyone who saw it, assistant coach, manager, other player, would have (should have) told the kid. That doesn't fall on Ollie.
 
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4xChamps said:
Kwintin looks like a dude that's gonna play solid minutes

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Why can't Kwintin be our Michael Graham? Why can't he give us putbacks, slams, offensive rebounding, and generally intimidate people? No one asked Michael Graham to hit a 15 footer.
 
Doctor Hoop said:
Pretty sure there's a relatively standard concussion protocol/guidelines that NCAA institutions need to adhere to...

Yup.

Unless you have clear evidence that they've decided to walk out on a legal limb in managing their student athletes.
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It changed maybe 2/3rds through the season; they were exponentially leading the nation in possible concussions before that. They fixed that problem. Everyone means well, sometimes it’s how you interpret and they traveled to another zip code from mainstream.
 
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upstater said:
Why can't Kwintin be our Michael Graham? Why can't he give us putbacks, slams, offensive rebounding, and generally intimidate people? No one asked Michael Graham to hit a 15 footer.
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Yeah - he has an edge about him and the physical ability is there. Diarra challenged Kwintin in the newspaper about how he is the best rebounder - we will see?
 
Palatine said:
Calhoun always had a monster first practice. He would say, "Remember that nice man who recruited you? He's not here." Then he would work them until a number dropped out.
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Mmm, close. I feel like there's a or two missing in there.
 
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Tons of softies in this thread. ROTC training is great, it keeps the body guessing and you are using muscles you don't normally use. That makes the difference between diving for a ball to keep it in bounds or possession. Ollie wants toughness this year and is doing the right thing. These aren't kids anymore, they're men. We are going to out-tough are competition this year and it starts now fellas.

Injuries heal. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.

Strive for 5.

Saddle up.
 
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