[pcgoode]

Question about the field we practice on.  Games are played on grass at home, but it looks like they are practicing on artificial turf.  I played on both in high school and at the time there was no comparison - practices and games on artificial turf always meant more injuries.  Now artificial turf may have improved over the years, but perhaps it has never reached the performance of grass.  No doubt the players are bigger and stronger than they were in years gone by, and I wonder if this fact combined with the use of artificial turf is a real problem for the program.

[pcgoode]

Question about the field we practice on.  Games are played on grass at home, but it looks like they are practicing on artificial turf.  I played on both in high school and at the time there was no comparison - practices and games on artificial turf always meant more injuries.  Now artificial turf may have improved over the years, but perhaps it has never reached the performance of grass.  No doubt the players are bigger and stronger than they were in years gone by, and I wonder if this fact combined with the use of artificial turf is a real problem for the program.

[BostonCard]

Even processes with well known risk factors can be stochastic.  For example, even if you know a player is "injury prone" and out of shape, you wouldn't be able to tell me in advance when a player would get injured (or even if).  At least one study I looked at modeled injuries with a Poisson distribution.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/1...-0030/html

Now, of course, "all models are wrong" as George Box has taught us, but Poisson distributions are the ultimate stochastic process.

BC

[BostonCard]

Even processes with well known risk factors can be stochastic.  For example, even if you know a player is "injury prone" and out of shape, you wouldn't be able to tell me in advance when a player would get injured (or even if).  At least one study I looked at modeled injuries with a Poisson distribution.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/1...-0030/html

Now, of course, "all models are wrong" as George Box has taught us, but Poisson distributions are the ultimate stochastic process.

BC

[82lsju]

Question about the field we practice on.  Games are played on grass at home, but it looks like they are practicing on artificial turf.  I played on both in high school and at the time there was no comparison - practices and games on artificial turf always meant more injuries.  Now artificial turf may have improved over the years, but perhaps it has never reached the performance of grass.  No doubt the players are bigger and stronger than they were in years gone by, and I wonder if this fact combined with the use of artificial turf is a real problem for the program.

the practice field is ~2/3rds grass and ~1/3rd artificial turf, they use both

[82lsju]

Question about the field we practice on.  Games are played on grass at home, but it looks like they are practicing on artificial turf.  I played on both in high school and at the time there was no comparison - practices and games on artificial turf always meant more injuries.  Now artificial turf may have improved over the years, but perhaps it has never reached the performance of grass.  No doubt the players are bigger and stronger than they were in years gone by, and I wonder if this fact combined with the use of artificial turf is a real problem for the program.

the practice field is ~2/3rds grass and ~1/3rd artificial turf, they use both

[gailtate]

Colorado can get injuries, too; and Phogge's point about the team's strength and conditioning (and injuries) going into the toilet upon Turley's departure can also be true. 

His last year here we had a ton of injuries, too, as I recall.

Given his situation at the time I doubt he was focused 100% on his mission.

[gailtate]

Colorado can get injuries, too; and Phogge's point about the team's strength and conditioning (and injuries) going into the toilet upon Turley's departure can also be true. 

His last year here we had a ton of injuries, too, as I recall.

Given his situation at the time I doubt he was focused 100% on his mission.