Saving, uh, we probably hitting every day, so full pads and heat for two hours, so, uh,

here we, we get, we get good work in, but they don't, don't chart kill us, we, uh, be good.

Lions running back to mere Gibbs on the differences between NFL practices and college practices under Nick Sabin.

And this is one of the realities of college football.

The rules are there ain't no rules. Coach does whatever he wants.

Coach is the coach wants a put him in pads every day and beat the crap out of him. Coach can.

Yeah. It was some talk in the past about maybe the conference is setting up some rules about limits on practices or whatnot.

But in the absence of a union, in the absence of a body that has the authority and the ability to protect the players,

you're going to have the coach do whatever the coach wants to do. And we've been here in that for years.

It was one of the reasons why Derek Henry slid down the board when he came out in the draft.

Hey, he got banged up at Alabama. Right.

These guys get banged up Nick Sabin, choose him up and spit some out Nick Sabin's not here.

He can say he's trying to lay the foundation for you to go have a successful NFL career.

He's still going to get every last ounce of juice out of the orange that he can before he throws it to the NFL.

And if there's no juice left, not my problem, I got what I needed.

Yeah. So I hear you. I hear you. I think he's he's he's not as cutthroat in that department. Right.

You see him kind of like he doesn't let running backs be work courses isn't much anymore.

Like he did maybe 10, 12 years ago.

He realizes he got to save them a little bit. Right, Mike. But I mean, hey, college kids too.

You can handle it. They can handle it. I do think there is some laying of the foundation.

They are young. They're not beat up nearly to the same capacity.

NFL football players are. It does set it up. It is easier. Right.

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