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Illinois soldier unfit for football after basic training
August 13th, 2011
Parachutecutie sends us a link to an article from Yahoo sports about the state of Illinois who won’t grant a waiver for a student, Eddie Nuss, to play football after he missed some of the summer pre-season practices because he was in Fort Benning, GA in basic training;“There’s this overriding safety issue,” IHSA executive director Marty Hickman told the Record. “Our sports medicine committee continues to feel that being in shape and being in football shape are two different things. We’ve had this issue a number of times. It’s been brought to the board’s attention, and they’ve consistently said that they’re not interested in modifying this policy.Yeah, being in Army basic training shape and being in football shape are two different things. I played football in high school and didn’t know what “being in shape” was until my drill sergeants showed me what being in shape was. I think someone needs to send Marty Hickman to Fort Benning, GA in the summer and let him go through the first few weeks of basic training, so he can speak to the issue with some experience behind him.
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Such idiocy is frightening. I'm not typically one for government interference, but this sure seems to be one of those times.
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1 comment:
I wasn't on the Football Team in High School, but was on the Track Team. Like you, I didn't know what getting into shape was until my 8 weeks of basic training in the Army.
In 1969, we didn't have PT clothes, we took it in Army Combat Boots, sometimes with our web gear and back packs on.
Every move we made was designed to get us into shape, even to having to low crawl, do the horizontal ladder and sprint to be able to get a place in the chow line.
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