a lot more live work here than than we ever did in the NFL<\/a>, at any team I was ever on,\u201d Belichick told reporters on Wednesday. \u201cSo that part of it\u2019s been actually an interesting thing to see, you know, some of the coaches that are on our staff that have had a lot of college experience have talked about the necessity to do that. Again, obviously, without preseason games it\u2019s, you know, we do need to do it, we\u2019ve done it. <\/p>\n\u201cAnd so it\u2019s been good, the intensity\u2019s been good, the competitiveness has been good, and I think, you know, we\u2019ve really emphasized trying to practice \u2014 learn how to practice and practice very competitively, but at the same time taking safety into account, knowing that we\u2019ve got to take care of our teammates and the players have done a really good job of adapting with that. We really haven\u2019t had too many issues, very few injuries to deal with, and even though we\u2019ve had quite a bit of contact in our padded days. I think that part\u2019s been really, really good. The amount of contact that we\u2019ve had with very few guys, you know, losing any plane time at all because of it has been good.\u201d<\/p>\n
The live work will likely continue into the season, because there are no real guardrails or limitations to the intensity of any practice.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s one of the reasons why most college football coaches will aggressively resist a union of college players. Without a union, there\u2019s no entity that can secure the kind of restrictions that the NFL Players Association has obtained for pro players.<\/p>\n
At the college level, coaches can coach how they see fit \u2014 subject to basic time limits, once the 20-hours-per-week rule activates. Within those 20 hours, however, the coaches can have padded practices featuring full, tackling-to-the-ground contact.<\/p>\n
So they do. And that will continue until the players find a way to band together to secure greater rights. Or, as the case may be, any rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are very real differences between college football and NFL football. As North Carolina coach Bill Belichick is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-86513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}