Kegs and Eggs goes to a "no tackle practice"

[BadlandsGrizFan]

MSU is expecting over 16,000 students to enroll in the fall. 73% of the Montana University Scholars (or whatever the State tuition scholarships for top MT high school students are called) are going to attend MSU this year. I wonder what UM's enrollment numbers will be. Has the rate of decline at least slowed?

The silence out of Main Hall is deafening. Ordinarily, at this point, with a couple of Orientations completed and one left, there would be bubbly press releases about participation and how enrollment projections looked. Nothing this year. It looks grim. Again.

There is going to be yet another round of cuts, another round of bad publicity, and its going to start hitting athletics.

The recent hire of an Enrollment Vice President, who just had to be paid a $70,000 "signing bonus," is yet another in the apparently ongoing and endless series of twists and turns of half-assed solutions that just make things worse, and for which Engstrom apparently has been given endless rope. The Faculty has pretty much given up on the man. Likeable as a person, there is no respect left for him on Campus as a University President. None. The "signing bonuses" and the $500,000 "Please Stay" bonuses from the BOR are seen as complete insults to the faculty and staff.

In the course of casual conversation this week, I noticed, for the first time, threats of course cancellations due to insufficient enrollment. I've never seen that before at the University of Montana. The course structure is beginning to hollow out.

"Academics" could learn from sports. Back-to-back losing seasons? Time for a new coach. Seven in a row? Time for a new AD.

God damn I dislike Engstrom

 

[PlayerRep]

Kickoff proposal to reduce injuries. Move kickoff up to 50 (or 45), and assess a significant penalty if kickoff goes out of end zone on the fly. Would retain the ability to return, but reduce the time/speed between engagement of blocks and getting to the return man. Seems like it would reduce injuries, at least to some extent. The Ivies have moved the kickoff point up to the 40 for conference games this year, I believe. Not sure why.

 

[BubbleScreenBob1]

Changing the way the clock runs in college football would reduce injuries as well. You could shorten the play clock and get rid of the clock stopping every first down and you would cut down in the number of total plays which would reduce the chances of injuries.

 

[IntuitiveGriz]

Dartmouth and Houston are on opposite ends of the spectrum...

The Houston head coach was on ESPN yesterday saying that he is holding the toughest camp in history this year (and last), and that he had his players sign a pledge (or something like that) agreeing to this. The coach said the goal was to make the 15 practices (which the NCAA only allows 12 of those to be padded) so damn hard that the games will seem easy in comparison.

I am all for the concussion reduction theories and practices. I've had too many.

 

[UMGriz75]

Dartmouth and Houston are on opposite ends of the spectrum...

The Houston head coach was on ESPN yesterday saying that he is holding the toughest camp in history this year (and last), and that he had his players sign a pledge (or something like that) agreeing to this. The coach said the goal was to make the 15 practices (which the NCAA only allows 12 of those to be padded) so damn hard that the games will seem easy in comparison.

I'd cringe when that quote gets brought up "down the road" as it surely will.

 

[SoldierGriz]

No "cringing" in Houston. They were 13-1 last year and stomped Florida State on New Year's Eve. Moreover, they have a pending invite to the Big 12. 12 hard practices in pads....BFD.