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because the vast majority are fake
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They did a pretty good job disguising it. I'm gonna give them benefit of the doubt-but I've seen enough of these injuries against Tulsa and UH that I'm pretty sure its in June Jones' playbook to fake at least some of these fast break injuries
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You sir are a genius .
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Frazier has gone down at least once in every game.
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Faking injuries or not, I would expect the crass Houston fans to boo. They have been trained to do so. But I lost any respect that should have been earned by Piland when he immediately started running to all of the officials and asking for a flag to be thrown. Throwing his arm up like an official throwing a flag, running around looking for an official.

Injuries are not good to either side. And maybe, just maybe, the kid is really hurt. A player on the field should respect that, and I thought that was very low class for him to do.
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They also took Ryan Smith's helmet away for a while to make sure he didn't have a concussion. That happened right in front of our section, and he took a serious helmet to helmet hit. That is a complete a-hole move on their classless fans.

They need to remember that these are young men playing what amounts to just a game. When the injury is real, how does that make the player lying on his back feel? They need to back away from the alcohol and bravado and STFU.

Maybe the folks at Marshall should have booed Cougs' receiver Patrick Edwards when he ran into that band cart at the end of the end zone a few years ago? Might have taught them a lesson.
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mrydel wrote:Faking injuries or not, I would expect the crass Houston fans to boo. They have been trained to do so. But I lost any respect that should have been earned by Piland when he immediately started running to all of the officials and asking for a flag to be thrown. Throwing his arm up like an official throwing a flag, running around looking for an official.

Injuries are not good to either side. And maybe, just maybe, the kid is really hurt. A player on the field should respect that, and I thought that was very low class for him to do.


My feelings exactly when I saw Piland doing that!
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The smu coaches make a sham of a great sport by faking injuries. They aren't alone. It is just a problem that needs to be addressed by the NCAA. How about if a player is injured then he must sit out a quarter or even a half?
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yep but if a change is made it should not be for more than the drive in progress
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soccermom wrote:
mrydel wrote:Faking injuries or not, I would expect the crass Houston fans to boo. They have been trained to do so. But I lost any respect that should have been earned by Piland when he immediately started running to all of the officials and asking for a flag to be thrown. Throwing his arm up like an official throwing a flag, running around looking for an official.

Injuries are not good to either side. And maybe, just maybe, the kid is really hurt. A player on the field should respect that, and I thought that was very low class for him to do.


My feelings exactly when I saw Piland doing that!


I caught that one, too. What a [deleted] move, even for a true freshman.
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There's a little business SMU is doing there. It's not all on the up and up. Ironically Frazier did it twice on long Houston scoring drives - drives in which Houston was pretty much whipping their rear ends.

The reality is Houston physically kicked SMU's butt.
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smuuth wrote:The smu coaches make a sham of a great sport by faking injuries.

Which coach has faked an injury?
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Re: Cannot believe they booed injuries

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There is nothing classless to complain when a player is faking an injury. Jones and Todd Graham love to employ this tactic. A couple years back it was so obvious that the DC would point his fingers down when he wanted to make a sub and one of the players would fall down. Jones tried to disguise this a little better this time around. I know a thing or two about this this and know what it looks like when aplayer is truly experiencing a cramp or had an injury to a knee, shoulder etc. I will admit that fans who are tired of this ploy get upset a little too prematurely but it has gone on in the past and certainly did this season. I as a former player would have never accepted faking an injury for any reason and find it appauling a coach would make any of them do so. Just my opinion.
As for Piland he was there and knew it was not real, why not be upset? We could not run three solid plays ina row without a "cramp" breaki between. He is certainly not a classless person. If you guys want to be upset you really should be pointing the finger at Coach Jones for using this practice rather than just playing the game. That is unless you are ok with this strategy.
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