title: The Junction Boys syndrome.
abstract: Strength and conditioning training for football has become year-round in virtually all levels of play, but none so much as contemporary NCAA DI football. Football players spend more off-season months and weeks in preparation for sport than is given to in-season practice, let alone play. A present peculiarity to NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision is conditioning and off-season football training is the sole setting for non-traumatic death in its participant players. Training regimens are too often built on tradition versus based on science and place players at-risk.
authors.affiliation: University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA. sanderson@ou.edu
authors.forename: Scott A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005538:Football / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010806:Physical Education and Training / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D005082:Physical Exertion