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From an elite CFB personnel exec who’s won a title, unsolicited:
“If you need another comment, I’d add:
As a family, if you’re even considering this as a means of getting recruited, it represents either A) an issue of simply not being good enough to generate D1 recruitment on your own and/or B) such a lack of knowledge and awareness about how the recruiting process actually works that any type of exposure would serve little to no purpose for the athlete.”
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Thankful for this. The amount of idiots who never could understand how math works..complained incessantly over how the rankings came out each week. #wveduction
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HS football needs to adopt something like game changer when it comes to stats. Someone has to be a certified statistician.
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Didn’t stretch before D-Day
Stretching before exercise does not prevent injuries. A 2014 meta-analysis of 26,610 participants in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that stretching had no effect on injury rates at all. Strength training cut injuries by a third.
The study was led by Jeppe Bo Lauersen at the University of Copenhagen. His team pooled every randomised trial that tested whether exercise-based programmes could prevent sports injuries, and compared the results by type: stretching, strength training, balance work, and combinations. Stretching reduced nothing. Strength training reduced injuries by 33 percent and cut overuse injuries, the ones that build up slowly over weeks, by nearly half.
The reason stretching fails is that it addresses the wrong problem. A muscle tear happens when a muscle is asked to produce more force than it can handle. Making a muscle longer does not make it stronger. Strength training does, and it also thickens tendons and stiffens the connective tissue around joints, all of which protect against the sudden loads that cause tears and sprains.
The finding goes against what every gym teacher, track coach, and physical therapist has said for fifty years. But the data is not close. Across every trial, every sport, and every injury type, stretching before exercise had zero detectable effect on whether the person got hurt.
This does not mean flexibility has no value. It means the five-minute hamstring stretch before a run is doing nothing for injury prevention, and replacing it with five minutes of bodyweight squats and lunges would be measurably better. The body does not need to be looser before it works. It needs to be ready to handle load, and that is a strength problem, not a flexibility problem. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2410…
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Max H. Lilly retweeted
Probably my last post on 9/11. I think part of why it hit so hard this year is that it feels like one big final memorial. By 2051, 9/11 will be so far in the past that, for most people, it’ll exist mainly as text on a screen or words in a history book. Many of the people who were there, and many of those who still remember what it felt like, will be gone.
I also think social media changed the way we experience something like this. From roughly 2005 to 2020, it still felt mostly like a place for fun, entertainment, and messing around online. But sometime in the early 2020s, especially during COVID, that changed. Social media stopped feeling separate from real life and became part of real life itself. It became a place where people express grief, anger, fear, sadness, and joy, and where some of the biggest events in the world are first experienced before they ever become history.
And because it’s now so easy to read the stories of ordinary people who were actually there, it can feel almost like standing in Manhattan and overhearing people who had just escaped Ground Zero telling you what happened. Combine that with the 25th anniversary and the way 25YearsAgoLive presents the event almost in real time, and I think that’s why 9/11 feels different this year. For a lot of people, it doesn’t feel like simply looking back at history. It almost feels like being there as it happens.
The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
The Marriot Hotel, a separate building located at the base of the tower, is also destroyed.
A 40-story portion of the building stands for several seconds after the collapse, then falls.
Perhaps 20,000 people are dead.
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Free to play. Hope everyone enjoys!
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Deleting all social media that deals with anything within 400 miles of my personal life has been a great move.
Can’t leave my slum of twitter thoo
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How is it every year around 9/11, there’s like 5-10 new videos that pop up on the internet that’s from different angles…
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This UMass Rutgers game is like when you start a dynasty on Heisman and have to lower it to all American
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Can’t practice because it’s too hot.
Games are fine to play when it’s too hot.
When does the body accumulate to the heat?
Am I wrong?
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Have to give credit for the gif selection.
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. @HudlSupport Sent my 10th email, and called multiple times. Emailed our sales rep. Can we please get a response to our issue?
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