Ok, I have a question, Why is it that every year we lose a player or players to shoulder surgery or some variation thereof. What kind of conditioning are these kids going through to keep getting the same 'types' of injuries year in & year out? Inquiring minds want to know.
I doubt that it has anything to do with conditioning. I suspect it's just one of those clusters that happen. It's very common, for instance, for there to be a cluster of a certain illness in a community, or on a specific street in a city, and for residents to draw the conclusion that it's something in the environment, or the water, or some such, that causing the illness in question. In the vast majority of these cases very careful examination by public health officials finds nothing that would tie the illnesses together to a specific, discrete environmental cause. It's just that clustering occurs, and is statistically to be expected, with a large enough population. In this case the population is all college football players in the US. Statistically, you don't expect that a specific type of injury will be evenly spread among all the colleges that have football teams. If each player has an equal chance of having a shoulder injury you'd expect those injuries to in general to be spread randomly, but you'd also expect to find clusters on certain teams that would be due also to chance variation and not a unique causative factor affecting that particular team.