Why Does The Media Believe Strong Would Ever Use Ash For A Test-Crash Dummy?

[Biff Johnson]

It wouldn't bug me, I guess, but it keeps on as if no other team ever gave a qb a pass of no-contact in practice and camp as policy. Why does there seem to be an unending stream of stories concerning Ash participating in practices without some sort of full contact that knocks him around like game-day? I just saw it on BR and ESPN again. I honestly don't know, and haven't for decades, what team routinely lets a QB take hits during this time. Did they change it after a trip into the Twilight Zone, and if so, when did my Texas Longhorns coaches decide to let our most valuable product take intentional licks until game day in the Fall? For what, to see if he can take it? Why not check a knee, now and then? I get the concussion syndrome threat, but they of the media experts act as if UT was someow running a backwards policy, and is just now taking this tack after having done it the other way. Or that Ash is too brittle and they are hiding him away. Ridiculous, everyone does it if the qb is hurt, or not. They are all treated as if brittle. What that suggests is program malfeasance on Strong's part, and that's insulting to beieve any Longhorn coach would be so blatanty stupid. Sports writers continue to amaze me with their brand new insights into things that nobody even does, head trauma, or no. It seems to be the same, mindless frenzy they applied to his hiring in that they'll just make things up.

 

[MikeV73]

It wouldn't bug me, I guess, but it keeps on as if no other team ever gave a qb a pass of no-contact in practice and camp as policy. Why does there seem to be an unending stream of stories concerning Ash participating in practices without some sort of full contact that knocks him around like game-day? I just saw it on BR and ESPN again. I honestly don't know, and haven't for decades, what team routinely lets a QB take hits during this time. Did they change it after a trip into the Twilight Zone, and if so, when did my Texas Longhorns coaches decide to let our most valuable product take intentional licks until game day in the Fall? For what, to see if he can take it? Why not check a knee, now and then? I get the concussion syndrome threat, but they of the media experts act as if UT was someow running a backwards policy, and is just now taking this tack after having done it the other way. Or that Ash is too brittle and they are hiding him away. Ridiculous, everyone does it if the qb is hurt, or not. They are all treated as if brittle. What that suggests is program malfeasance on Strong's part, and that's insulting to beieve any Longhorn coach would be so blatanty stupid. Sports writers continue to amaze me with their brand new insights into things that nobody even does, head trauma, or no. It seems to be the same, mindless frenzy they applied to his hiring in that they'll just make things up.

Agree, the media alway has to create more depth to a story to justify their existence.

 

[Lord Vader]

The concern is Strong hitching his wagon to Ash, him going down like last year, and the team being in the same position. I don't think Strong would be so foolish as to not have viable alternatives no matter what happens.

Its much like Austin media going out of its way to crap on public safety folks. Just trying to keep the "hot topic" stirred up.

 

[doc longhorn]

In the medical field there is a gray area concerning PCS ( postconcussive syndrome). It is not understood why some individuals continue to have these symptoms - sometimes for years. If Ash has been determined to no longer exhibit PCS's, then his doctors will clear him for play.

Folks, concussions are not like an ACL. Ash is is not now prone to concussions, just because he had one. It doesn't work like that. A concussion, in laymans terms, simply means his brain got rattled in his skull and suffered a....bruise (for a lack of a better description).

So, if one were to get a "bruise" on his arm does it now mean he is "damaged goods"?

You protect a QB in practice to keep him from getting injured. Is this concept hard to understand?

 

[streettopeschel]

don't all QBs wear red 'don't hit him' jerseys in spring ball ?

That being said i guess i'm not aware there's been an abundance of media reports covering the story.

 

[Topstarr]

I do not understand what we are talking about....we all should know how spring ball goes.

 

[HornNdriftwood]

That's a bold statement.