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Gamecock Football: Concussion Guinea Pigs?

DID THESE GUYS WATCH LAST YEAR’S GAME FILM? || By FITSNEWS || The University of South Carolina football team has signed an agreement with a Washington State-based “biometrics” firm in an effort to obtain “accurate, real-time, objective head impact data” during the coming spring football season. Ummm … whaaa? “Members…

DID THESE GUYS WATCH LAST YEAR’S GAME FILM?

|| By FITSNEWS || The University of South Carolina football team has signed an agreement with a Washington State-based “biometrics” firm in an effort to obtain “accurate, real-time, objective head impact data” during the coming spring football season.

Ummm … whaaa?

“Members of the South Carolina football team will wear the Vector MouthGuard this spring as the instrument of telemetry to measure the brain’s linear and rotational accelerations from impacts experienced in practices and games,” a press release from i1 Biometrics states.

Well that clears it up …

Wait … these guys did watch the Gamecock defense last year, didn’t they?

Because there wasn’t a lot of “rotational acceleration.” Or hitting.  And last time we checked you’ve got to hit somebody in order to gather some “head impact data.”

Head coach Steve Spurrier‘s squad was hands-down the most disappointing team in the country in 2014 – dropping six games (equal to the number of losses the program sustained over the previous three seasons combined).  Oh, and that five-game winning streak against arch-rival Clemson?

Gone.

Hopefully a reconfigured defensive staff will help … but the Gamecocks didn’t exactly light it up on the recruiting trail in 2015.  Oh well, we’ve learned not to second guess Spurrier.  He’s done things at South Carolina that have never been done before – and deserves the benefit of the doubt.  Of course it’s safe to say returning the South Carolina program to national prominence is shaping up to be every bit as difficult a job as getting it there in the first place.

Pic: Travis Bell Photography

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15 comments

GrandTango February 18, 2015 at 11:40 am

Liberals say “JUMP”….and FITS bends over…LMAO…

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Emily Peterkin February 18, 2015 at 1:19 pm

Better than being a cheerleader for racists assholes.

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Try To Keep Up February 18, 2015 at 2:00 pm

You are a special kind of stupid. If I were to give someone an assignment that says “go on to a comments section of a story and post the most irrelevant, off-topic, vapid, trivial, simple-minded response you possibly can “, I still don’t know that they could do a more bang up job than you.

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E Norma Scok February 18, 2015 at 2:29 pm

He is pretty dumb.

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Bart Star February 18, 2015 at 2:39 pm

He’s the example of why we wear headgear.

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Saluda Rapids February 18, 2015 at 9:52 pm

And boy did his blog suck. Sadly, his comments here are worse. He makes a Gamecock fan want to root for Clemson. He is that bad.

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E Norma Scok February 18, 2015 at 11:43 am

“He’s done things at South Carolina that have never been done before”

Well, you already had a 1 win, and no win, back to back season, and an overall losing % age, so the only real direction was up.

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Frank Howard February 18, 2015 at 12:18 pm

Bwaahaha

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TontoBubbaGoldstein February 18, 2015 at 12:09 pm

 Oh, and that five-game winning streak against arch-rival Clemson?

Gone.

Gone.

That’s right, Beetchez, gone.

*Blows on fingers, Verbal Kint style.*

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Toyota Kawsaski February 18, 2015 at 1:20 pm

edit: massages and blows on all 5 fingers OFTEN while under the influence of PCP being omittd from Dat Boys sphincter.
Wont Happen!!! One victory in the last 6 meeting and now yall run the state. So glad U are a University
of Clemson fan.

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E Norma Scok February 18, 2015 at 2:28 pm

What is it you cocks keep crowing about history? But, since *you* are mentioning it now…

In the series, I count no less than SIX (4) game win streaks, and (1) SEVEN game win streak of Clemson wins.

In comparison, (1) 5 game win streak by the cawks seems, well, like a statistical abberance.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein February 18, 2015 at 6:15 pm

“One victory in the last 6 meeting and now yall run the state.”

“Sixty-six victories in the last 112 meetings and now yall run the state*.”

Fixed it for ya!

* FYI: We run the Upstate and Charleston (and up the middle on Lorenzo War_’s defense). Y’all run Lexington, Columbia and the Corridor of Shame.

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Dropped on head February 18, 2015 at 1:18 pm

When I visited SC last summer, I could have sworn most locals where severe concussion survivors. Y’all might want to issue helmets for all newborns in the future.

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a man named gray February 18, 2015 at 3:58 pm

If you want absolute proof, just look at who we elect to public office

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Limbaughsaphatkhunt February 18, 2015 at 5:55 pm

No, they issue hand guns to newborns here in SC.

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