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If anything, I blame ... Jon Wilner! ... for the loss of the amazing bounce house floor.  Sometime shortly before the decision to replace the floor was announced, he did a series of junk science "epidemiological" stories suggesting that the excessively bouncy floor was contributing to an overabundance of knee injuries at Stanford.  I have to believe that meme became fodder for negative recruiting -- "You don't want to go to Stanford...at least if you want your knees to survive!"

I thought it was Tim Kawakami, but yeah, I remember those articles. Total conjecture with no real science to back it up, but hey, all that matters is how many readers you get, right? Sheesh. . . .
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It may have been Kawakami [and, if so, I owe Wilner an apology  :o ]  Interestingly, I've been unable to track the articles down on the web, although I've founds references to the 2003 series - described as an "informal survey/study" -- in a couple of different places.

[76lsjumb]

[quote author=76lsjumb link=topic=7484.msg58191#msg58191 date=1359618820]
If anything, I blame ... Jon Wilner! ... for the loss of the amazing bounce house floor.  Sometime shortly before the decision to replace the floor was announced, he did a series of junk science "epidemiological" stories suggesting that the excessively bouncy floor was contributing to an overabundance of knee injuries at Stanford.  I have to believe that meme became fodder for negative recruiting -- "You don't want to go to Stanford...at least if you want your knees to survive!"

I thought it was Tim Kawakami, but yeah, I remember those articles. Total conjecture with no real science to back it up, but hey, all that matters is how many readers you get, right? Sheesh. . . .
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It may have been Kawakami [and, if so, I owe Wilner an apology  :o ]  Interestingly, I've been unable to track the articles down on the web, although I've founds references to the 2003 series - described as an "informal survey/study" -- in a couple of different places.