Jacob Richman

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You know, [the SEC] took a pretty hard line on it. I think that’s what all the conferences are going to have to do. I’m not here to start accusing people of what they did and didn’t do. Because it is hard. It’s hard. Officials can’t do anything about it because what if the guy really is injured? You know what I mean? You can’t. That’s tough. The three injuries the other day. It just so happened to be after we had an explosive play and were going fast. So maybe the guy just got hurt then, or maybe it was strategic. I didn’t make that decision. So, you know, [Roderick Daniels Jr.] said what he thought because that’s what it probably felt like to him. I think it comes back to an integrity deal. We’re all ball coaches, we want to win. It’s hard to make a rule that solves that. I don’t think it’s fair. I’ve heard people say, ‘Hey, if a guy goes down for an injury and they stop play, he should not be able to go back in that drive or he should have to sit this’. I don’t think that’s fair. Because a guy may really get his bell rung. We want him to stay down and be safe. And he may be the starting quarterback and two plays later he can come back in the game. I’ve never seen anybody fake an injury with the starting quarterback. So, like, I’d hate for us to make a knee jerk reaction to solve a problem that creates another problem, which we do often. I just think it comes down to a league took a hard line and basically put it on the coaches to have integrity. And like, if it’s in question, you’re gonna get dinged pretty good again. I don’t know what if they were really hurt or not the other day. I’m not judging that. I know we don’t do that. Sometimes, too, it gets weird because a kid may be like halfway injured and he’s kind of trying to get off the field and it’s better if he just goes down. It’s just so much gray area, but it is an issue. I think it’s more of an integrity of the game issue than an operation of the game issue.