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Quit checking me out.
Recently it's Saban. The guy has won 3 titles lately and he whines about fast paced football.
Damned sissy.
He didn't whine about fast paced football. You are a victim of media spin.
First, he never said he had a problem with playing it.
And he later clarified what he meant about player safety. In the NFL they play about 64 plays a game. In college football, they play about 80 plays a game and fast paced teams play even more than that.
Those extra plays add up to about 300-400 extra plays over the course of an entire season. More if a team plays more than 80 plays a game.
Obviously there is a much bigger chance for injuries to happen over that many extra plays.
“First of all, do we want or is football intended to be a continuous game? The second question is ‘Because of the pace of the game, the accumulative effect of playing more plays…”
“I think people misinterpret the fact that when you say player safety, is it about the pace of the game is faster? What I’m talking about is somebody needs to answer the question… in the NFL, they play 64 plays a game. We play over 80 plays a game in college, and fast-paced teams play more than that.’ So a player is playing 25 or 30 more plays a game, so the accumulative effect of that over a season…. Is there something that has any effect on players’ safety. I don’t know the answer. I’m asking.”