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http://www.uab.edu/mix/stories/football-helmet-testing

Quote:In a lab just off the racetrack at Birmingham’s Barber Motorsports Park, one of America’s foremost highway-safety experts is testing a new solution to football’s concussion problem: crash-test dummies. They’re the centerpiece of an effort by UAB’s Dean Sicking, Ph.D., inventor of a host of roadside protection devices and the SAFER barrier widely used in motorsports, to make football helmets safer as well.

Sicking, drawing on his experience in automotive safety, has created a unique testing facility to re-create football impacts and evaluate helmet performance. At its heart is an 80-foot railed track, with two dummies, dressed in football uniforms, facing each other on opposite ends. One dummy is fixed on a stage; the other races toward it on a moving sled. When they meet, the impact often makes observers flinch. “Some of these hits take your breath away,” said Blake Feltman, a research engineer working under Sicking on the project.

UAB really needs to expand on this and make sports injuries of all types a major point of emphasis for research and development.

That is what Clark wants to do. Biting tongue again. :-(

(11-18-2015 05:26 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]That is what Clark wants to do. Biting tongue again. :-(

Heaven forbid a school with world class researchers should do....you know..research.

If Clark has his way we will. Bites tongue.

If UAB could develop a unique program between medicine and engineering in sports safety, the sports world would beat a path to our door.

& if we patented anything we came up with the $$$'s that we would rake in could pay for a couple of stadiums.

Add a few million to the football building and build a new research wing and have its part of the funding assigned to the BOT as a research building project...

Didn't Tuscaloosa add some media geegaws to Bryant-Denny and charge it to their journalism school, or something like that?

Yes. Their media center was charged elsewhere.

We could do that if our administration wanted to.

(11-18-2015 06:22 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]If Clark has his way we will. Bites tongue.

Fumbles drops the ball again. There. I said it for you

Hey but we're gonna have one whale of a track you guys!

You keep biting your tongue like that you're gonna bite it off everytime someone mentions something to do with a certain DA....I mean AD.

Why would anyone be against using our research strength to better our athletics?

The track needs to be moved any way you slice it. It's the approach that was used that turned people off.

(11-19-2015 11:34 AM)hooverblazer Wrote: [ -> ]Why would anyone be against using our research strength to better our athletics?

Because this administration is Undeniably Ass Backwards.