Magus Ossis

Yes. Partial usually means no surgery. Tear and rupture are different words that essentially mean the same thing in this context. Repair (a la BEAR) is normally only for acute (recent) tears in the middle of the ligament, as opposed to avulsion (where it tears off of its attachment). There are some exceptions and nuance to all of this. The bottom line is that you need two things to advance out of the more "PT" phase of rehab and start working on sport-specific drills (allowing cutting and pivoting on the operative knee). You need good restoration of function, usually graded largely on quadriceps strength, and you need to be able to trust the weak link in the chain physically, generally the site of incorporation of the graft to the bones on either side of the knee. The graft incorporation is faster for bone and with native tissue. It is slower with purely tendinous grafts and with donor grafts.

Repair is still a bit of a novelty. I've only done it once, and that knee was crying out for it. The fastest way back onto the field in my opinion is BTB. The BEAR repair protocol only begins graduated return to sports after 6 months.

The graft choice is one of the biggest influences on how fast players can be released to full go. Bone-tendon-bone autograft means harvesting a bit of patella, a bit of tibia, and the patellar tendon connecting them to use as the new ACL. The literature supports trusting the maturation of the graft at 3 months with return to play occasionally as early as three months but with the average closer to 10 months. A lot of that average likely has to do with the fact that mid-season surgery for one-season-per-year athletes means most of a year until the next game. For the average human, quadriceps tendon autograft (your own stuff) or hamstring allograft (from the bone bank) often makes more sense, but those are slower to incorporate (to go from being a graft implanted in the knee to being an ACL). Even with the "slower" grafts, I've seen people back at the competitive level as early as 5 months. TLDR: It is optimistic, but not foolishly so, to look for Brooks to be 100% next season.

Summing up: 1. This is our best team and season in years. 2. We are terrible. 3. Lose to ISU (sure to happen because reasons) or Tech, and we might as well blow our brains out. 4. Win out through the CCG, making us 12-1 and earning our first title since '09, and it's meh -- Sark can't coach. 5. We probably need help to get into the playoffs this year.

cross posted here because money talk here: I am a little curious about the real meaning of the giant $160M check aggy flashed at the game. I suppose it is possible that donors, just within the last week, poured that much cash into the 12th man fund and that the fund is bragging by printing it on gargantuan cardstock. I think it is much more likely that the figure represents some combination either of cumulative gifts over the last ? months/years and/or pledges received, again over a significant time in the past and promised to pay out over a significant future interval. I'm from Missouri on their literally having that kind of cash sitting in the slush fund and ready to spend.

I am a little curious about the real meaning of the giant $160M check aggy flashed at the game. I suppose it is possible that donors, just within the last week, poured that much cash into the 12th man fund and that the fund is bragging by printing it on gargantuan cardstock. I think it is much more likely that the figure represents some combination either of cumulative gifts over the last ? months/years and or pledges received, again over a significant time in the past and promised to pay out over a significant future interval. I'm from Missouri on their literally having that kind of cash sitting in the slush fund and ready to spend.

I try to imagine Harbaugh's state of mind, knowingly running a massive cheating program like this, and getting hit by NCAA with a suspension for lying about buying an unauthorized cheeseburger, but I just can't guess what that joker was thinking.

Lots of this has been said, but I will add my voice in concurrence: 1. Trying to obtain advantages including by stealing signs is not the issue. Everybody tries to steal signs because only an idiot does not want intelligence before an engagement. The issue here is seeking and gaining advantage by KNOWINGLY and WILLFULLY violating a published and objective rule over a period of YEARS. 2. Michigan is showing its colors as dirty. The instinct to sling mud and cover up is shameful. Is this what they want to teach their students to do when caught in misbehavior? 3. Who cares who ratted them out and what relationships existed among those who caught Michigan cheating. The issue is the cheating. 4. If no punishment is meted out for this cheating, why not set up electronic snooping for the helmet communications in the future? Why not bribe opposing coaches to reveal game information? Why have rules at all? The point of consequences is not always merely the bulwark against the specific infraction at hand, but rather to reinforce the notion that rules exist and we should play fair. 5. This is a big deal. Statistics show Michigan fares far better in key metrics when cheating. People's livelihoods are made and broken based on how college football games turn out. Draft positions go up and down; coaches are fired or given raises; etc. Literally millions of dollars change hands in ways directly influenced by these scores and statistics. For anyone who knowingly lied about the behavior and profited as a result, we are now potentially talking about actual fraud. 6. The choice between immediate and delayed consequences, between up-front response and "letting things play out" is a false dichotomy. It is both possible and appropriate to apply an initial consequence with the intent to select a final punishment once the scope of the misbehavior is better understood. Those pushing to wait are really pushing to avoid consequences now (when the cheating is truly bearing fruit) and hope never to face them at all with the passage of enough time. 7. NCAA ,B1G, and all persons (natural and otherwise) harmed by this cheating need to hold Michigan's and the coaching staff's feet to the fire to come clean and cooperate fully. All punishments need to be on the table. If a years-long interstate cheating ring isn't worth investigating, the next cheater in line will take this to levels we probably can't even imagine.

He even adheres to the aggy honor code: he only lies about cheating and stealing* *and when not telling the truth for other reasons

If Sark is building a champion here, we don't need an insurance FG against BYU. We obviously need work on our goal-line offense. So we beat BYU by four touchdowns and got more live practice toward figuring out how to punch it in. Some people seem honestly to believe that BYU, who scored zero TDs against us, was enough of a threat to beat us that we should be kicking FGs against them for insurance. We've spent way too long weathering storms, outlasting surges, and setting our sights on eeking out wins against second-rate opponents. I'm not satisfied with our goal-line offense, but I'm glad we're still trying to find/establish one.

Straw man alert. I didn’t say the models were useless. I said they were NOT stupid but rather were relying on poor proxy data to model a phenomenon in the instance of early season predictions against good teams before playing any good teams. I gave the specific example of negative correlation between the multibillion dollar industry you reference and one of the models.

Advanced metrics are models. The best model in the universe can't reliably extrapolate from the ability to beat bad teams to know whether you'll play well against a good team early in the season. There is literally a complete absence of the data of interest resulting in total dependence on guessing how to interpret proxy data which is known not to map closely. OU looks good to models that are analyzing turds for data. If OU had even 30 snaps on each side of the ball this year against a solid opponent, the computers would have at least something on which to chew. As it stands, those metrics are just guessing, as shown by the fact that expert humans all seem to agree that OU should be the underdog, but ESPN's machines disagree. The machines are not stupid; they lack useful data.

High stress games with amped up players and crowds increase to opportunity for emotion to help drive the game farther from the expected outcome in either direction. Clearly, either team could win. Injuries, fluke turnovers, and the like can move the result several TDs from where it "should" be. With that said, Texas played Alabama in a similarly amped up environment. Both teams took their best shots. Texas benefited neither from a preponderance of flukes nor other particular events that would move the result in our favor from where talent, skill, coaching, etc "should" have had it. We beat Alabama on their field by double digits, and they are a decent benchmark. Both Texas and OU have had good and bad quarters of football. Both are undefeated. Only Texas has been tested against an opponent remotely of the quality it will face this weekend, and Texas has passed the test. I can't predict the future, but my reason tells me covering by Texas is likely.

Launching most of old the old team was one of the reasons given before the season why he was going to fail. He is most certainly coaching up this team with the help of well-chosen staff. This. If it was so obvious how close the game should have been, the line would have been much smaller. He has not built a championship contender there. He won't blow out any top 10 teams this year. But this is a transformation and re-launch of a moribund football program of impressive proportions. He was unafraid to violate the conventional wisdom. Everyone said he wouldn't win 4 games, and now when he wins more than that, people will say his wins are crappy. It says more about those commenting than about coach.

Texas 34 OU 13 Texas rushes for 220

They are an untested gaggle coached by the likes of Venables and his comfort hires-- maybe 3 good coaches on the staff. We have beaten everyone we've played by double digits, including handing most of our opponents their only loss. We are a tough, unified team that plays better as the game goes on. Last year OU quit in spectacular fashion. And Texas is supposed to be the team concerned about the mental aspect of this game? Really? I know we've been in the desert a long time, but try to step back and see.

He seems to be teaching them something about not quitting. This alone can change the course of one's life.

Bone injuries certainly fall under HIPPA. As stated above, however, the average guy on the street has no duty to protect health information under HIPPA.

Hard pass on Pedo State

Our only away games OOC should be one every two years from H/H series against out of state opponents that are marquee teams and/or desirable travel destinations. An exception could be playing at NRG for a "return home game" against Rice or in the Alamo Dome (with plenty of seats allocated to Texas) against e.g. UTSA. We already play in Dallas. We don't need to sacrifice our home game opportunities to give money and the chance to play spoiler to Tech, Baylor, TCU, Houston, OSU, etc. We gave Baylor their going away present already. If they miss us, they can save the dump we took on their face and bring it back out to sniff it occasionally.

This is the part that gets me. Let the team doc look at him. If somehow there is no doc around, let the trainer look at him. When in doubt (especially at a level of play as big-time as P5 FB), put him in a boot and on crutches until you get an MRI. There is pretty much 0% chance of a routine MRI of the ankle, the same study one would use definitively to diagnose and characterize sprains in high-level athletes, missing a talus fracture. Any idiot should know that you start out protecting the patient in case the injury you hope didn't occur actually did.

While alumni gave $20 handshakes to players etc, there has always been an enormous gulf between the coordinated large-scale bag operations at some schools and the spotty officially discouraged misbehavior at others. When aggy coaches were directing fedex cash deliveries, Texas was making athletes report what they drove and how they afforded it. Now we are institutionally in the game.

It varies based on whether this is osteochondral, posterior process, lateral process, body, or neck. Best case for him is if it is a simple lateral process fracture. There is a high risk of AVN with more serious neck fractures. That’s super bad. Even if this heals up (and it can be slower than the average bone 6 week time), significant and early arthritis does occur with lots of these.

A little talar fracture can be analogous to a little pregnant. Here's hoping the kid recovers from this without serious long-term ankle problems.

Texas 42 KU 23 KU total offense 350