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Re: 2016 IRI - Rule Changes and Reasoning

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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace View Post
Sometime after Week 0.5, many teams improved their CDF autons. Now most of them are considerably more effective than simple "ramming speed".
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Since then they've made them beeifer. I know the first change was swapping from countersunk to counterboared panels. There may have been a second change. Knock on virtual wood, but in Indiana (and on Carson field for that matter) I don't remember any breaking (and the defunct countersunk ones being used as doorstops).
They did identify the root cause of much of the Palmetto breakage, but that doesn't mean breakages didn't happen later in the season. And when your alternative is gone, I figure it's worth asking.
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