Idiosyncrocies Region - 2 vs 15

[mu03eng]

Tackling Dummy
This one I'm having to go off memory as it seems to predate MUScoop(or at least I can't find it).  Near the tail end of an already questionable season, lead player Travis Diener(senior year) was reported to have broken his hand in practice.  This injury ended his season leading to MU having to go with Marcus Jackson at point forward and the results were bad.  However, rumors started flowing out of MU that Travis had broken his hand tackling a football dummy in some weird drill former HC Tom Crean came up with.  It has never been verified as a true story but that hasn't stopped every reported injury of an MU player to have been caused by said tackling dummy

Hyperbaric Chamber
On the heels of the infamous ATV March Madness(it's own meme), a story in the Boston Globe was posted to Scoop which reported that MU had purchased a hyperbaric chamber for the basketball team to improve their conditioning.  Well, one thing led to another and eventually it was determined the chamber was only purchased so Crean could more efficiently tan while working on his breathing...or something like that.  Yet another in a long line of extravagant purchases that were judged to be wasted money from the Crean administration.

[mu03eng]

Bump til thumbtacked

[77ncaachamps]

This one was tough!

[Tugg Speedman]

To make the Hyperbaric Chamber purchase even worse, Crean had them use it exactly the wrong way!

Hyperbaric Chambers simulate altitude.  It is best to live at altitude as the thinner air makes your body increase its red-blood cell count (hemocrit levels).  That improves endurance.  (side note, EPO can do the same thing, hello Lance Armstrong).  People that get these often sleep in them so they spend several hours a day at altitude to get their bodies to adjust.

It is best to train at sea-level as that provides the maximum Oxygen intake when working hard.

So, live at altitude and train at sea-level.

Instead MU purchased a Hyperbaric Chamber so they could live a sea-level (or live in Milwaukee) and train at altitude (Hyperbaric Chamber).  They use to ride exercise bikes in the Hyperbaric Chamber.

Problem with training at altitude just starves the body of O2 and makes one unable to achieve their maximum potential.  In other-words it makes things worse!!

Makes things worse.  Has Crean ever done this in other areas?  Hmmmmm