These guys start training months before the combine at facilities of their agents' choosing. When news gets out that a guy isn't in great shape, who do you think the agent is going to blame? Certainly not his client. I didn't say it was fair.
Remember Percy Harvin last year in the rookie minicamps got dehydrated and eventually vomited. He went onto not having that bad of a year.....
The thing that bothers me the most is the injury/cramp thing. In college, he was known to have freak injuries. Hopefully this won't be a problem.
There's a good chance he's probably out of shape but puking and cramping on first days aren't things out of this realm. I wish he would've had a better showing as well, but I'm not that worried about it like some other people are. It's a LOOONG off-season. There's still plenty of time to get back in shape and into the swing of things.
Yeah, this is far from worrisome for him, obviously. I'm just letting you know what can happen as far as the facilities are concerned. Hence why I said it's worse for his OSTF.
now that i have thought about this for a second the guy was probably just really dehydrated. he puked and had cramps which both come from being dehydrated. somebody get him a few gallons of gatorade and he will be good to go tomorrow.
EVERY practice? I can understand the first few days of double days if you didn't train between summer camp and Hell Week, but if 1/4 of your team was puking at EVERY practice, you guys obviously didn't do enough conditioning early on.
I love it when high school coaches don't know what the hell they're doing. I had a coach one year who blamed every loss on conditioning, rather than on his complete failure to stick with a gameplan. We'd lose two full practices a week to conditioning drills and punishments like somersaulting down hills in full gear...and yet still 1/4 of the team wasn't puking every day...a full day to learning an entirely new offensive gameplan (one day to learn to run out of the Power I), one day of planning in shells, and then suck all over again on Friday. It's no surprise that the freshmen that year went 4-7, then 9-2 at JV with the same exact players against almost all the same teams the next season.
