Obviously Tedford is lying and passing the buck which generally are not well regarded qualities in leaders. He'd probably fare a lot better to own this. My hope is that publicly humiliating a coach/program like this deters others from trying the same tact as it is pathetic/unacceptable for all the reasons the NCAA rules say it is my suspicion is that Tosh was the one that told the O it was part of the game plan and is being thrown under the bus for doing so... he was recognized as the national recruiter of the year last season by rivals STOMP
Yeah, this is an obvious case of an asst coach taking the fall. The fact that Tedford already said that he'd stay on his staff after the suspension tells me that it's a bullshit punishment.
Cal Coach Suspended - for faked injuries, admits guilt Bet he earned some real brownie points for taking the fall for Tedford. Nothing like this happens w/o the blessings of the HC. http://www.latimes.com/sports/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-fbc-california-coach-suspended,0,4155616.story
Re: Cal Coach Suspended - for faked injuries, admits guilt Poor Cal, can't get anything right. They can't even cheat w/o getting caught... But, losing to UW and STILL not bowl eligible...so sad. What a lowly state for a team full of potential. Must be something wrong with the captain of the ship, me thinks.
If they want to fake injuries they still can, this doesn't change much. Players should generally know when their team needs a break, and then they fall to the ground.
Re: Cal Coach Suspended - for faked injuries, admits guilt Should have never admitted it, this happens all the time. It seems like a good tactic too, I'd keep going for it.
Instead of shamelessly falling to the ground & losing all your dignity, you could just run off to the sideline and get a sub in the game.
But it seems to disrupt the Oregon hurry-up offense, which is the whole point. That's the theory being tested.
So far I've only seen the tactic work once and that was the cal game. I guess whoever it was who held the ducks to 42 in their 2nd lowest output of the season could count as disrupting but cal stifling Oregon was more their defense playing great football than injuries disrupting the ducks. It's a shame too that their effort is being overshadowed by this garbage because they played brilliant, smart, disciplined football.
another longer fake injury vid from earlier in the year vs ASU and Stanford [video=youtube;G29dpd9Fp2Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G29dpd9Fp2Y&NR=1[/video] STOMP
They could change the rules so a player needs to sit out a longer period if the refs need to stop the game for them. It could be four downs or it could be the rest of the drive or even the rest of the quarter. An exception could be made if there's a penalty called, causing the injury. Ed O.
I completely agree. Assuming a player really is injured, it seems borderline negligent for a university's medical staff to allow a player back into a game less than a minute after you have helped them get off of the field. What if the player exacerbates an injury because he sells the training staff that he is OK, or the training staff thinks that he is faking it, and allow him immediately back into the game. Treating injuries as a joke does not reflect well on a program or university. At the very least, 10 minutes of observation on the sideline by a trained professional should be minimal if a player really is injured. Carrying a guy off the field and then letting him run right back in after one play could be a potential lawsuit, especially if the program has been known to use "injuries" as a way of slowing down a game.
