Missouri /arkansas Thread

[Feathers and Fins]

OTF, I hear this argument all too often and I want one person to give me a reason other than PAY as to why they should have a shorter season when the following are for other college sports

Basketball = 30 to 45 depending on playoff

Baseball = 45 to 60 depending on playoff

LaCrosse = 21

Wrestling = 32 is best I could find but could be more or less a little depending on college

Hockey = 35

Now all those are sports where there is a potential to go pro and earn money Basketball, Baseball, Hockey for certain should we decrease all of them?

[Al Agnew]

Pretty simple, really...football is FAR more wearing on your body than all those other sports. No way you could play two or three football games a week. It would be too dangerous. And the season already lasts half the school year and more, so extending it wouldn't work, either.

And F&F, here's the problem with the criteria you would use for picking tie-breakers...most yards gained and most points scored is NOT necessarily a good indicator of how good a team is. An team with an elite defense and a grind it out, ball control offense might only average 21 points or less per game but win every game and win them fairly easily, while your criteria would encourage wide open offenses and ignore good defenses, and you'd end up with games looking like basketball scores. A team that beats its opponents by an average of 14 points and only averages that 21 points would probably be a better team than one who averages 50 points and only beats its opponents by an average of 7 points. Plus, you'd only be encouraging teams to run up the score against lesser opponents, keep their first team in during mop-up time to score more points, etc.

The only fair way to do it is to have every team belong in a conference, and have the number of conferences that will give you four, eight, or 16 play-off teams, and the conference champions are the only teams eligible to make the play-offs. Have every conference have two divisions and a conference championship game. You play the season to win your division, play the conference championship game to make the play-offs. No computers, no subjective picking of supposedly top teams, the scoreboard decides it all.

[Feathers and Fins]

Al, I Have played Hockey, Football, Baseball and Basket Ball.... Hockey and football in leagues and I would NEVER having played both say football wears more on your body. Hockey typically it was a Wend night game and a Saturday plus practices. Get hit with a few pucks and stick plus slammed in to the glass or ice and tell me it doesn't wear on your body.

All sports wear on you and cuddling anyone who chooses to play one is silly, they know what its going to be when they sign up.

As to my tie-breaker idea it was only that an idea but damit let them play it out let the teams decide who is best at the end.

[ozark trout fisher]

All sports wear on you and cuddling anyone who chooses to play one is silly, they know what its going to be when they sign up.

Not sure who brought up cuddling....

[Wayne SW/MO]

You overlook things like TV schedules F&F. The pros broadcast every game, but colleges don't and it isn't an overnight process.

You may think football is no more stressful, but the prefessionals invloved don't agree with you.

[Feathers and Fins]

Wayne any sport is as stressful is going shoe shopping with a woman lol

[Wayne SW/MO]

I can't believe you think a football palyer isn't anymore physically strees than a soccer or basketball player.

[Feathers and Fins]

Nope I don't, I have seen players in all sports extremely stressed physically and mentally. People put way to much on football because it is the most popular sport in most respects. I have been to a few soccer games talked to a couple of players and they will tell you it is very stressful on the bodies and one thing some say is more stressgful worrying about being beat up by fans. not to much worry for football players about fans rioting.

[hoglaw]

Never played soccer at a professional level, but I played for a 7a championship team and lots of club and rec teams. Soccer is physically taxing, but you can play a 25 game season in 12 weeks. Not sure about doing that in football.

Rugby was the closest I ever got to football. Our high school coaches hated the soccer guys and you were asking for trouble even working out with them, which I did. Can't imagine playing a bunch of rugby games in a row. Did it in tournaments, but it sucks.

The impacts in football are just so much harder. When you wear pads, you can tackle with reckless abandon. It's a lot harder in the human body overall in my opinion.

Injuries in soccer can be common. Injuries in football can be catastrophic.

[ozark trout fisher]

Well, Pinkel is SEC coach of the year.

In other words, the folks who wanted him fired before the 2013 are probably trying to forget their stance on that.