Exactly — Malachi didn't suffer a fracture or dislocation. That wasn't my claim lol.
You said artificial turf is inherently more dangerous for a hard landing, and I cited a 20-year study that does not support that blanket assertion.
If your response to that data is simply, “Malachi didn't suffer a fracture or dislocation,” then you're responding to a point I never made rather than addressing the evidence I actually cited.
If the hard landing leads to a fracture or a dislocation, that's one thing.
But that's not what happened at the Wake game. You put those words about "fracture" and "disclocation" in bold, and now you are acting like I just went on a tangent? Very strange.
I said that for certain injuries that were suffered, predominantly stingers with Malachi and Darian, the impact of a hard landing is worse. And for other injuries, such as the way in which Marty planted his foot and the knee hyperextended, it can be the result of the cleat hanging up in the turf during contact.
So help me out here with your earlier contribution. First, did YOU bold these words:
More importantly, does Miami tend to play on fields with "divots" or "uneven muddy spots" or "hard-frozen dirt"? Only God knows which fields the RHODE ISLAND Medical Journal took into account for its study, but I certainly haven't seen many of THOSE fields in the ACC. So I'm not really sure why we should be relying on some mathematical derivation that seems to be based on a survey of high school fields in the greater New England area (yes, I know they claim "nationwide", but I'm not sure if including Montana makes anything better).
Would it be possible for the Rhode Island Medical Journal to do some comparative research on grass fields that do NOT have divots or uneven muddy spots or hard-frozen dirt? Because I'd like to see THOSE numbers. I feel pretty good about how that will match up to everything I've heard from UM and NFL players over the last 40 years.
Come on, man. I responded to a guy who claimed that NONE of our injuries were related to the crappy turf at Wake Forest, and you're dropping Rhode Island Medical Journal citations to make it seem like our eyes didn't see what we saw at Wake Forest?
OK, then. I'm trying to be nice, but some people are taking advantage.