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Calvin Russell- only top 75 player to choose a dumpster fire

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sfcane2 said:
If he THINKS he's a basketball player that makes me question his judgement even more. He's not ranked by a single service. I looked at 247 and Rivals and he's not listed.

I guess you can say Syracuse is a top basketball program but they were 14-19 last year.

At least Jasen Lopez is ranked as a 3 star in basketball. Compare him to Cantwell who is the #1 shot putter in America. He's giving that up to focus on a sport where he can have lucrative future.
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Actually Miami has/had a competitive track team .
I remember we were on the verge of breaking records with Moss an Hill even almost qualifying for Olympic trials and NCAA championships.

The women over the years were awesome.

Who cares if we don’t have a full track team would that hold back for Cantwell from participating in shot put and discus?
 
Kn[]_[]ckles3o5 said:
I wish the kid well but maybe this is why hopping up and down on the hard court for 12 weeks wasn't the best idea. Seems he would have been better served training his body for football.
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Actually, you are pretty much wrong on that. Playing multiple sports that require you to use your body in different ways is better for you and would reduce your chance for injuries such as this.
 
GOCANES05 said:
Actually Miami has/had a competitive track team .
I remember we were on the verge of breaking records with Moss an Hill even almost qualifying for Olympic trials and NCAA championships.

The women over the years were awesome.

Who cares if we don’t have a full track team would that hold back for Cantwell from participating in shot put and discus?
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I'd note a few things.

First, I do not think Cantwell is giving up shotput permanently. He may skip this year in favor of football, but he could easily go back to training for a possible spot on the Olympic team. Over 2 years before the Los Angeles Olympics.

Second, I expect that things will be changing in the future when it comes to our track team. We will be expanding our "Olympic sports" offerings and resources as we move towards Big Ten (or SEC) membership.
 
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6th Ring is Near said:
Actually, you are pretty much wrong on that. Playing multiple sports that require you to use your body in different ways is better for you and would reduce your chance for injuries such as this.
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I'm pretty much sure that the prespring strength and nutrition program freshman go through is massively important in preparing their bodies for the rigors of P4 college football, especially the SoFla kids who have gone without such benefits.

Did playing basketball increase his risk for injury? No.

Did not going through the football specific off-season program increase his risk for injury? Yes.
 
Kn[]_[]ckles3o5 said:
I wish the kid well but maybe this is why hopping up and down on the hard court for 12 weeks wasn't the best idea. Seems he would have been better served training his body for football.
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In all sincerity, that sucks. I was looking forward to seeing if this kid had any juice.
 
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I hope for Russell’s sake he has a multi year NIL contract, and that the university is unable to back out of the contract because of injury.
 
Kn[]_[]ckles3o5 said:
I'm pretty much sure that the prespring strength and nutrition program freshman go through is massively important in preparing their bodies for the rigors of P4 college football, especially the SoFla kids who have gone without such benefits.

Did playing basketball increase his risk for injury? No.

Did not going through the football specific off-season program increase his risk for injury? Yes.
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Well I don't care to get into a discussion with everyone about the science of it, but countless studies have shown that kids that overwork their bodies in the same sport year round are at a higher risk to serious injuries like ACL and Achillies than athletes that play multiple sports year round and work their bodies and muscles in different ways.
Despite all that, injuring your Achillies in that way is a fluke injury that is rare. A few extra weeks of conditioning was not going to change that outcome for him.
A bigger concern would be his HS coaches and how hard they work him in practice because if they have babied him then his body is not ready for anything important. Based on how his recruitment went and some of the comments I heard from him and his family, and him not picking Miami most likely after watching how they practice I would assume that was more the case and more of a factor in what happened to him. Picking Cuse seemed to me like a kid that wants to be the man and not challenged in practice and less to do with the NIL number they threw at him.
Just my thoughts.
 
6th Ring is Near said:
Well I don't care to get into a discussion with everyone about the science of it, but countless studies have shown that kids that overwork their bodies in the same sport year round are at a higher risk to serious injuries like ACL and Achillies than athletes that play multiple sports year round and work their bodies and muscles in different ways.
Despite all that, injuring your Achillies in that way is a fluke injury that is rare. A few extra weeks of conditioning was not going to change that outcome for him.
A bigger concern would be his HS coaches and how hard they work him in practice because if they have babied him then his body is not ready for anything important. Based on how his recruitment went and some of the comments I heard from him and his family, and him not picking Miami most likely after watching how they practice I would assume that was more the case and more of a factor in what happened to him. Picking Cuse seemed to me like a kid that wants to be the man and not challenged in practice and less to do with the NIL number they threw at him.
Just my thoughts.
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Let's just say influence's. They have already been named before. I wish him well.

Our WR room is fire. Mali and Barkate are known. You hear the talk on Moore, Jacobs and Wingo. Spafford had a good 1st week. I am surprised Vaughn isn't getting praised. He is every bit of what we hoped so far and more. You can't forget Upshaw.
 
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