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Coot may be looking for a strength training coach soon
Apr 29, 2019, 8:58 AM
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Do South Carolina’s injury woes link to training? Will Muschamp explains his outlook
South Carolina’s football team was beset with injuries all throughout the past season. Of this, there is little doubt.
The Gamecocks lost 15 or so players to season-ending surgeries. With that came questions about their training, the strength staff South Carolina uses.
Will Muschamp, USC’s coach, fielded just such a question last week, and his answer began with a little research he said he’d done.
“In college football, at most programs, you generally have 4-6 surgeries per season on a college football season,” Muschamp said.
So how is South Carolina doing on that front?
“Our first year we had two,” Muschamp said. “That’s unheard of. That doesn’t happen. We’re doing the same training we did then as far as the weight room, as far as the offseason was concerned. Our second year, we had six, which is about normal for where you are.”
That first year, the roster was in a state of transition. It had a fair number of holdovers, but also played a lot of first-year Gamecocks, something that’s been common in three years under the current staff.
The injuries in the second season were more notable, as it struck the team’s top receiver/play-maker (Deebo Samuel), the top tailback (Rico Dowdle) plus former starting tight end K.C. Crosby.
ut then came last season, when USC lost the 15 players to season-ending procedures. The spate of injuries took out a swath of safeties, a large group of defensive linemen, plus top backup receiver OrTre Smith.
And even there, the coach went to lengths to say some of that was about issues beyond a training staff’s jurisdiction.
“One of those was hereditary, was a subluxed kneecap, had nothing to do with our training staff,” Muschamp said. “Two of those situations were redos on shoulders that were from high school. ... I think in the recruiting process, we need to be careful in those situations.”
As he noted, the shoulders or labrums were nagging issues, but the three torn ACLs and two ankle injuries were the ones that fell into the category of “soft tissue” injuries.
That term soft tissue has been one Muschamp has harped on through his time at South Carolina. Samuel’s issue early in his career was a perpetually nagging hamstring, the kind of thing the coach said his player could take care of with proper training and hydration.
A year later, he pointed to some of the things that slowed Dowdle as falling into the same category.
It’s also worth noting football is by nature a violent game. Every snap means a slew of collisions. Bodies fall on bodies. Every player should be straining themselves most of the time, to use Muschamp’s word.
As such, injuries are a part of all this.
So after all that, Muschamp and the Gamecocks came to a conclusion about what went wrong:
“If we end up having all soft tissue, then obviously something you might be doing in the training room is wrong,” Muschamp said.
Read more here: https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/usc-football/article229773594.html#storylink=cpy
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Apr 29, 2019, 9:04 AM
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Re: Coot may be looking for a strength training coach soon
Apr 29, 2019, 9:16 AM
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It’s a depth issue for them. Less quality depth leads to more injuries.
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Re: Coot may be looking for a strength training coach soon
Apr 29, 2019, 9:23 AM
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The starters play the majority of the game. Look at the QB Position two years ago. Had Bentley gone down late in the season, they didn’t have a QB with an ounce of snaps the entire year. You can’t play guys that much and not expect injuries. The recruiting staff is as much to blame as the training staff.
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"subluxed kneecap"
Apr 29, 2019, 9:48 AM
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Uggghhh God bless whoever had that one! Coot or not that injury is really painful. My son had that happen at school one day messing around and when I got to him about 20 mins away his kneecap was on the side of his leg! I think he would've let me shoot him to end the pain but once I physically lifted him up his leg straightened, he screamed, acted like he was gonna black out and then looked act me and was like "It just popped back in, I think I'm ok, its a little sore do I still have to go to the hospital?" Cost him 4-6 weeks of PT luckily no surgery.
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Re: Coot may be looking for a strength training coach soon
Apr 29, 2019, 10:16 AM
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Other than faux-turf schools (like when Maryland consumed 6 strings of QBs) the other injury factor is when sub-standard programs roll the dice on injured talent, lack depth, and overuse players. Injuries beget other injuries, especially with fatigue/overuse.
So, if a player has an injury, even a minor one and due to a lack of talent and depth, they have to take more snaps, are not given time to rest, then they are more and more likely to have a major injury. Even small "tweaks" can lead to "instability" in a given area. Then overuse can cause injury when other muscles are compensating and are no longer able to support the given area, especially in soft-tissue instances.
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