I've tried a few products on racquetball glasses and NONE have worked...it's one thing to be blindsided by a blue ball going 70 mph. It's a whole other thing to get blindsided by 240 pounds of fury going 15 mph! Wait a minute, are we seriously still talking about equipment? Oh boy...gonna be a long off-season! :thumb:
I thought the NCAA did pass a rule a while back about the use of visors? It may have been just about of the mirrored ones. Someone please clarify this for me.
I went into the NCAA rules book to see what was up on the visor issue. http://www.ncaa.org/library/rules/2004/2004_football_rules.pdf All I could find is on page fr 34 where it says it is illegal to wear a visor that is not clear. There are some exclusions based on medical needs. I know Drew Tate usually wears a shield. He thinks it is harder for a db to see where he's looking.... not sure why, except maybe all the db sees is a reflection.
But also, most of Miami and USC's games are held during the day when the sun's a factor. There's not much sun on "Saturday night in Death Valley". A dark visor couldn't be good when playing at night. I wore a visor (clear) when I played in high school--but it was because I wore contact lens. Let me just say that they're NOT all that great. With the humidity, it fogs up. After you've been sweating, when you hit, sweat flies from your face and on to the inside and then until you can whipe it, you're stuck looking through beeds of sweat and fog. When the weather was colder, it was better, but until then, it wasn't all that great.
I never said he wasn't a winner, and I never said that he wasn't a great coach, but I just think that he was way WAY off base! I guarantee 5-6 players a year get injuries that could be prevented by this... It is good for a coach to be in charge, but not to the point to where he is running a prison camp.
One of the guys on my football team put on his helmet, (not illegal in my neck of the woods) and took it off after the first series of the game because he said he couldn't breathe very well with it on. As for should they be able to wear em, why not? There's noting wrong with them, it's just like wearing a sweatband or not, it's a personality thing, they should be allowed to wear them if they want to.
For crying out loud! Saban had an open door at his own home for the players and lots of them went there regularly to visit and spend time with him and his family. Saban did indeed run a businesslike professional program. A prison camp!? HAHAHAHA! I suppose that's why he kept getting top notch recruits over and over. They wanted to experience prison life? Get real. Saban ran an awesome clean successful program where he put the players first and foremost in his thoughts. He did not cater to the fans and media though. I suspect that's what sparks such comments from someone like you. With comments like yours, you are the "grade-A butt"!
Top Notch recruits wanted to play for LSU... That's why they still commited AFTER he left! Prison camp was way off base, and I appologize, but I knwo from having met the man that he is not who you think he is. You can argue with me all you would like, and it doesn't matter to me. All I know is that Ryan Perrilloux, the number 1 QB in the country right? was told by your great Nick that he would have to play safety if he was going to have a chance at LSU, *hence the Texas committment?* I have no doubts he is a great coach and if I had to pick a coach, he would be in my top 5, but he isn't what you would call the nicest man in the world... not by any stretch of the imagination.... What you see on tv for 3 hours on Saturdays doesn't hide the real man. Because there are 168 hours in a week, not 3
