NCAA to implement new safety rule

Oct 16, 2013, 2:04 AM

The NCAA has implemented a new rule to take effect in the 2014-2015 football season based on concerns of player safety, especially that of freshmen (red-shirt or otherwise).

Player Long-term Health and Safety in Road Games: Rule 24.16.2.2.2. Added text to include freshman quarterbacks starting for the visiting team while playing in Clemson's Memorial Stadium.

NCAA's explanation: "...it is no longer permissible for a young student-athlete to be forced to participate in such a hostile environment in his first season. The mere participation in such games have shown long-lasting and detrimental effects on a player - mentally, emotionally and physically..."

How this rule came about: in wake of an NCAA-sponsored college football event in 2013 between Clemson University (CU) and Florida State University (FSU) at Clemson's revered "Death Valley," FSU's promising young superstar quarterback, red-shirt freshman Jameis Winston was forced to give up football after suffering a series of injuries and other health issues as a direct result of intimidation. Among Winston's sustained afflictions: extreme anxiety and depression, acute hearing loss, bone rattles, and dehydration from an ailment thought to no longer exist in teenage males in which side effects caused him to "call for his mother," otherwise known as just being a crybaby.

The onset of Winston's conditions came on the evening of October 19, 2013 when the FSU Seminoles visited the CU Tigers for a college football game that pitted two of the highest ranked programs in the country. Winston was a highly lauded student-athlete entering the contest, one in the running for the sport's most prestigious award, the Heisman Trophy. It has long been believed that the noise level in Memorial Stadium regularly approaches a deafening 140 dB as some of the most passionate fans in the world cheer on a small land-grant university's football team in the Upstate of South Carolina. The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed on that day that the noise level from the crowd had reached an astonishing 139.7 dB on the first play of the game featuring Winston. Winston, after the game, on the crowd, noise level and intimidating atmosphere, "I want my mommy. I want my mommy."

I love that we are the underdogs and I love how FSU is trying to downplay the intensity of the atmosphere! I know we can get to him early on! He's never experienced anything like this, and we need to make sure he never forgets it!

Can't wait til Saturday night!

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