Comparing draft of basketball and football

"Pauli G" <rioroad.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > it's gotta be the money.
>
>
> I'm sure that money is somehow involved, but I do believe that there
> is a legitimate physical aspect to it. The coach at my college was a
> coordinator with the Jacksonville Jags, and did an interview with the
> local paper about kids jumping to the NFL. His take was that college
> is valuable not only for game experience, but especially for the
> weight training and general physical development. Another thing he
> kept hammering on was how fast the NFL game is, and that the speed is
> an adjustment even for kids coming out of a 4-year program, never mind
> out of high school.

Good point. Anybody want a rehash of the physics of winning a
collision?

Basically, if you are a little bit smaller and a little bit slower, it's worse
than you think. Assuming an inelastic collision (which isn't accurate,
but I'll address this below since it favors bigger players), you have
a battle of momentums. In a head-on collision, the smaller player
generally ends up going backwards. The bigger player merely slows
down. The difference in acceleration felt by both players is large.
For example, the smaller player might go from 12 mph to -4 mph,
for a total deceleration of 16/(collision time), while the bigger player
might only decelerate from 10 to 2 mph -- and keep on running
while the smaller counts birds and stars. (This applies to car collisions
as well.)

Making matters worse, much of the impact of the collision is absorbed
by the body. Alas for the smaller player, he's not only getting the
brunt of the collision, he has less body mass over which to absorb it.
"Like getting run over by a train" is not just a cute phrase.

Another way to visualize this is that H.S. players are used to collisions
at some average mass M and Speed V. The problem is, not only
does the total kinetic energy go up proportional to the increased NFL
mass, it goes up by the square of the increased velocity.

Last but not least, solid muscle holds up to the collision much better
than flabby muscle.

--Tedward

"Andrew Murawa" <amurawa.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Daniel Seriff <microtonal.RemoveThis@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:02:44 -0500, Harry Everhart wrote
> > (in message <harry-B24DB3.13024427042004.RemoveThis@comcast.ash.giganews.com>):
> >
> > > In article <geoff-usenet2-D60CB1.12533527042004.RemoveThis@reader3.news.rcn.net>,
> > > "Geoffrey F. Green" <geoff-usenet2.RemoveThis@stuebegreen.com> wrote:
> > >> The NFL and its union, through their collective bargaining agreement,
> > >> forbid players to enter the league until three years after their high
> > >> school class has graduated.
> > >>
> > >> The NBA and its union have no such provision, though they are
> > >> discussing it.
> > >
> > > Thanks Geoff -
> > > I understand it is a union thing - but - How can a union negotiate away
> > > the rights of a kid in college that is not a member of their union?
> >
> > It has nothing to do with the union. It has to do with the faulty assumption
> > that there is such a thing as the "right to play in the NFL".
> >
> > I fail to see why this is even an argument. The NFL, like any other business
> > in the country, is under absolutely no legal or moral obligation to admit
> > anyone that it feels is unsuited for admittance.
>
> Any other business in the country is unable to discriminate against
> potential employees based on age...

It isn't based on age. But now we're beginning to venture
into the murky business of dumb ass legistlation verses what
businesses can actually get away with, not to mention obvious
situations where age is allowed to be considered, even by
the dumb ass legislation.

I didn't see any old hags bringing me drinks the last time I
was at Harrod's.

--Tedward