Why so many injuries?

[BDYZR]

14 scholarship players, 8 of them starters, and lost I think 3 more during the game. I said in another thread, look at the Rays and Bucs. All three teams seem to be having injury problems.

[olafberserker]

Because football is a physical sport, people get hurt

[OhioBull]

I was at the game yesterday and I didn’t notice a significant size difference between us and UC. More UC seemed to get injured than us. Of course, that is only an observation based on no facts, but I thought we looked as big as them.

[BullsFanInTX]

Here's the deal.  When you play tough physical teams like BYU, Florida, and Cincinnati, you get more injuries. This is a fact.  If we had played Howard 5 games in a row, we would have had less injuries.  When you're going against an overmatched opponent, yes you can still have injuries, but they're a little less likely.  Why, because the opponent is not as big, strong, or fast, so many of the collisions are less violent.  You can also block them more easily, and you can avoid their tackles more easily, and when they do tackle you it's usually with less force.  There is a reason most of their players got scholarship offers to Howard and not Florida.  Sure, they have good players, but they have way less of them.

[Sk00b]

4 hours ago, BullsFanInTX said:

When you're going against an overmatched opponent

But why are ALL of our opponents overmatched? 

Edited October 10, 2022 by Sk00b
Or outmatch us. Same same?

[olafberserker]

1 hour ago, Sk00b said:

But why are ALL of our opponents overmatched? 

Sorry, I couldn't resist beating a few to the punch

[BDYZR]

Does anybody have a list of all those injuries and what timeframe they are on for returning? And what the deal with Horn? Did he reaggravate his hamstring vs ECU?

[Bulls On Parade]

16 hours ago, BullsFanInTX said:

Here's the deal.  When you play tough physical teams like BYU, Florida, and Cincinnati, you get more injuries. This is a fact.  If we had played Howard 5 games in a row, we would have had less injuries.  When you're going against an overmatched opponent, yes you can still have injuries, but they're a little less likely.  Why, because the opponent is not as big, strong, or fast, so many of the collisions are less violent.  You can also block them more easily, and you can avoid their tackles more easily, and when they do tackle you it's usually with less force.  There is a reason most of their players got scholarship offers to Howard and not Florida.  Sure, they have good players, but they have way less of them.

Maybe Kelly should make our schedule more realistic.  Getting our teams bashed results in injuries and losses. 

Replace BYU UF and UL with teams like WKU, Southern Miss and Charlotte....we might have less injuries and one extra win. 

Going to lose like half our starters vs Bama next year at rate we are going. 

I like p5 wins but they aren't happening anytime soon.

Edited October 10, 2022 by Bulls On Parade

[olafberserker]

36 minutes ago, Bulls On Parade said:

Maybe Kelly should make our schedule more realistic.  Getting our teams bashed results in injuries and losses. 

Replace BYU UF and UL with teams like WKU, Southern Miss and Charlotte....we might have less injuries and one extra win. 

Going to lose like half our starters vs Bama next year at rate we are going. 

I like p5 wins but they aren't happening anytime soon.

Schedules are done way in advance

[Rocky Style]

39 minutes ago, Bulls On Parade said:

Replace BYU UF and UL with teams like WKU, Southern Miss and Charlotte....we might have less injuries and one extra win.