Weight Disadvantages

You bring up a good point with this bro. It is unfair for a lot of these little guys. It is simply not safe for a 175lb kid to be on the field with these big 270+ lb defensive linemen. Safety rules need to come into effect here. I propose one of two solutions:

1.       Don’t let a kid play college football until he has gained the necessary weight. I think you brought up 175 lbs so we will set the bar at 180 lbs to add in overhead, just to be “safe”.

2.       Let’s have the players that are under 180 lbs wear a pink belt so that players will know not to hit them so hard. May be then the defensive linemen can slow down a little bit before they hit the little guys.

Something needs to be incorporated so that a big hit like Clowney had in the bowl game never happens again. It’s really not fair when a defensive player like Clowney makes it into the backfield untouched. There needs to be a rule where the defensive player has to slow down after he gets into the backfield so that he doesn’t have a big hit. May be he has to count to “one one-thousand” before he makes the tackle. This would change the game for the better.

I mean, we shouldn’t see these super talented players like Clowney making plays in the backfield. Causing fumbles and “getting up and acting like they did something” Nobody wants to see that. Instead we want to see these big guy guys limited and timid so that we can see the less talented 175lb guys slip past them and pick up a 40 something yard run then “getting up and acting like they did something” . That’s what the people really want to see. No one likes to see people getting HIT in a game like football. If they wanted to see hitting they would watch baseball.

I don’t know why every sports channel keeps playing Clowney’s hit in the bowl game about 20 times a day. Why do the websites keep talking about it? No one wants to see that kind of hit in football. Brent asked me today “How does it feel for Carolina to have an ESPN ‘player’”. I responded with “I wish it would stop, it’s really bad publicity for Carolina”. I mean it has to be hurting recruiting. Every time you turn on the TV you see “Big Bad Clowney” whipping up on all these small players. Recruits have to be disgusted with his style of play. We’re lucky that we have the excuse that we can only take 16 players this year in recruiting. It would be hard to fill a 25 recruit class when you have this Clowney FILTH on ESPN 24/7.

You know what? May be track and field would be a better sport for us to keep up with. Think about it, it’s like football but without the defense. We could just watch guys run the 100 meters and keep our own score. Let me know what you guys think. Keep in mind that there would be a ton of tied games but at least we wouldn’t have to watch the gruesome hitting in the barbarian game called football anymore..