Floppers

SabreHorn said:
Nothing "sarcastic" about it. If DKR was still alive, I'd take you to eat Mexican food with him, and he would tell you just how serious it is/was between his tears.
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My comment in response to ViperHorn was what was sarcastic. Do you really think I believe that hydration knowledge amongst major college programs is new?
 
My apology. It's a sensitive subject, and I thought you were addressing my post.

I spent over an hour with Coach Royal at a charity golf after party, and that is the first time I realized the impact Reggie's death had on Coach.
 
Before I got to The Forty Acres, a walkon from Spring Branch HS named Reggie Grob died of a heat stroke at practice. Coach Royal took the entire team from Austin to Houston for his funeral. The old Spring Branch HS stadium is named after him.

I sat with Ray Poage one night when Coach Royal began talking about it. Ray was friends with Reggie.

Bill Little wrote an article about it, which may be available online.
 
Sangre Naranjada said:
Orgeron doesn't believe...
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Beat me to it. EVERYBODY LAUGHED at the pee chart. But who's laughing now?? Well, actually we're all still kinda still laughing, but at least we're not having guys cramping up all the time. So it's not so much a "ridiculing" laugh now as much as a "junior high potty humor" laugh.
 
LSU has had the cramping problem for a while. When guys like Grant Delpit and Michael Divinity - two of the best players - miss drives because they went to the locker room for IVs, there's at least some legitimacy to the cramping issue players were facing.

I'm not saying there weren't any flops during the game. Just pointing out that cramping, in general, was a real issue. Ed O needs to address the root cause because it's been a common problem the last couple of years.

And Rashard Lawrence cramped up at the goal line and came off the field. You don't take your best DL off the field inside the 5 - Texas scored on the next play as I recall.
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Yeah obviously plenty of them were legit. A couple of guys went to the locker room, one is evening going to miss their next game. But I don't see any way they all were legit. Too much convenient timing on the cramps, too much history of Orgeron pulling this in the past at other places, and the fact that most of them happened right after halftime when we hadn't run tons of plays yet. With the rest of them. the legit cramps/injuries, it's like the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
 
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To anyone outside the LSU program the explanation Norfok provided that this is an ongoing problem suggests Ed uses this when he needs it.
Seriously would any top program have this same easy to correct issue go on for years?
 
Implying LSU isn't used to playing in the heat (or, even more so, the humidity) is like saying the Brazilian or DR Congo national soccer team will really struggle with the heat and humidity at a visiting game in Houston. BR is generally a tougher weather/climate to play in than Austin early in the season.
 
To the extent (some of) the flops were real, Strength & Conditioning is a 2 part thing. Strength without good conditioning often leads to 4th quarter breakdowns on defense and a gassed-out DL.
 
Strength without good conditioning often leads to 4th quarter breakdowns on defense and a gassed-out DL.
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4th quarter, yes. But "6th play of the 3rd quarter when you didn't even go on defense first"? That makes less sense (unless their locker room A/C really was out).
 
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