TSSAA's New "Limited Contact" Rule

[Monkey Wrench]

I guess this is another reason why Tn doesn't produce the athletes of other states. 

[uknoit2]

Amen! Scary to think what this country will be like for our great grandchildren!

Don't think it'll take that long...Hope I'm wrong

[wingman10]

Don't think it'll take that long...Hope I'm wrong

don't like it at all..but, you are right

[Justadad]

This rule will be like all of the other rules the TSSAA enacts. It will not be enforced. We have a heat rule that tons of teams do not go by. We have teams that openly practice whenever they want to. The TSSAA is great at coming up with rules but, like the NCAA, don't know how to enforce them.

[Booger]

it started going down hill when they took the salt tablets away and put mask on the helmets

 

Booger just sayin 

[cbg]

This rule will be like all of the other rules the TSSAA enacts. It will not be enforced. We have a heat rule that tons of teams do not go by. We have teams that openly practice whenever they want to. The TSSAA is great at coming up with rules but, like the NCAA, don't know how to enforce them.

Is this a National Federation rule that the TSSAA is being told to enforce or is it a TSSAA rule that the Board of Control made the decision that we needed?

[Southtowner]

Is this a National Federation rule that the TSSAA is being told to enforce or is it a TSSAA rule that the Board of Control made the decision that we needed?

 

NFHS http://www.momsteam.com/health-safety/nfhs-approves-concussion-task-force-recommendations-discussion-with-state-associations

 

GHSA  http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/sports/preps/story/2015/apr/15/ghsimposing-contact-limits-football-practices/298690/

 

AHSAA  http://highschoolsports.al.com/news/article/-9009554688432705724/ahsaa-approves-limits-on-full-speed-contact-at-football-practice/

[CoachRCHelton]

From my Library:

 

"It's not 60 minutes at all, see. It's a matter of a very few minutes, five or six at the most. Don't believe it? Last year we played Tennessee in a game where 63 points were scored. The actual live ball time was 13 minutes, 41.1 seconds. 

 

There were 100 rushing plays that totaled 8 minutes, 44 seconds, or 5.24 seconds per play. There were 28 passes that took 2 minutes, 17 seconds, or 4.89 seconds per pass. The extra points averaged 3.3 seconds, the one field goal 5.4 seconds. There were 9 punts, totaling 1 minute, 45 seconds and averaging 11.68 seconds per punt and return. 

 

In the game there were a total of 158 plays, and they averaged 5.22 seconds a play. Take away Robin Carey's long punt return, which took 20.9 seconds, and Wilbur Jackson's 80-yard touchdown run, which took 8.9 seconds, and you cut the average time per play to less than 5 seconds. Now, if you played the entire game on offense, which you wouldn't do in a modern game with as much substituting as we do, and the offense ran 70 plays, what do you wind up with? Five seconds per play times 70 plays---less than 6 minutes. 

 

If a player goes out there after doing all that preparing, and having accepted all that help, and then wallows around for those vital 5 minutes plus, he has to be stupid or some kind of dog."

 

Excerpt from the book: Bear (pages 175-176)

by Paul "Bear" Bryant with John Underwood

[tradertwo]

This rule will be like all of the other rules the TSSAA enacts. It will not be enforced. We have a heat rule that tons of teams do not go by. We have teams that openly practice whenever they want to. The TSSAA is great at coming up with rules but, like the NCAA, don't know how to enforce them.

Doesn't matter...the "rule" is smoke and mirrors anyway. Full pads is with football pants only, with or without the padding. Practice all you like in shorts and girdle, with pads in place. Some other modifications and adjustments regarding time allowed, but mostly won't affect the style of practice, or practice time. Either the talking heads are smarter than we give them credit for, and are trying to appease the liberals...or they're worse than I thought.

[uknoit2]

Appeasement makes them worse than I thot if so be the case.

Kinda tires of all the PC crap myself