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[QUOTE="Finwad32, post: 1676171, member: 651"]
You are in full pads at most twice per week. If you do full contact for more than 20 minutes of those 2 days, you're the outlier in college football today.

40 minutes of full contact vs. 60 minutes in a game, 4:1 doesn't really compute to my calculator, quick and dirty or not. Furthermore, full contact in practice is given a quick whistle to avoid huge hits. 
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Nobodies talking about wussification. People are talking about being properly prepared to take on the rigors of full contact football.

I'll tell you what, I'll buy a warehouse and teach my workers to drive a fork lift by just reading the manual. That, which will decrease the amount of time on the forklift, should therefore decrease the amount of accidents as well.
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Less than 5% of incoming FR are ready to play tackle football at the collegiate level. Take away the only time they have to learn how to compete at that level and you're putting them at risk. It takes time to learn how to adjust to the speed of the game. A subtle movement in a split second, that's a natural reaction, can mean putting yourself at tremendous risk. It takes time and muscle memory. Some of it can only be learned at full speed.

Now incoming players are at an even further disadvantage and even more at risk.

There are ways to make the game much safer without taking away full contact. It starts at the youth levels. Which is where the VAST majority of head and neck injuries occur.
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