The impact of bigger
In my opinion, there has been an impact. From the game perspective as well as customizing perspective, I can readily see how it has impacted the game.
In games that I am associated with, the bigger players seemed to perform better on faster boards. That also has to do with the bases which deals with the "athlete principle". While they are slightly bigger, many of the players can and do blend in with traditional figures from years past.
The game is immediately felt to be impacted when a guy is trying to throw a pass to a receiver and the "Bruce Smith" pose is in his leaping stance, altering how the QB throws the ball or causing an incompletion to happen. At the end of the game, when we look back at "impact plays" in one team's ability to win, this play contributed BIG!
From a customizing standpoint, I think the impact has been tremendous. Give Electric Coach much credit for his honest of being one of those who did not embrace this change. I remember him as well as many others who now glorify the changes as "messing with the fabric of the game". Electric Coach's forward thinking made him think long and hard about the good that this has done. Bigger was not meant to replace the traditions of the game but add to the pleasures of the game was one of the goals.
For me, more importantly, the "hardness of the player" was even more significant. You have no idea the many emails and telephone calls criticizing the softness of the players. Until I stepped on one and saw him go back into his natural state did I even understand the significance. When I saw that, my "engineering" mind went to work. And thus, I became a "customizing fool"! And now, you see many guys who had no interest in this aspect of the game create a whole new craze. And this was because, their minds became free and clarity of vision became reachable. That's just my opinion.
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