Magus Ossis

You overestimate them. Jimbo was resting on his laurels. He got lazy. He’s past his prime. We are primed for a championship run if we can just get a young innovative coach here who has that fire. If NAME is winning 9 games a year at LESSER SCHOOL, (or is running an offense that... or a defense that... etc), imagine what he could do behind the wheel of the Ferrari of college football programs. Sleeping giant yada yada.

Return to play after ACL depends on how it’s reconstructed. The old thinking was wait a month before surgery, but now it’s often earlier if there is also other work to do. Allograft (dead person from bone bank) tendon graft usually 9 months before full go. Autograft (some hamstrings from the patient that he, believe or not, won’t miss) tendon graft usually 6 months. Bone-tendon-bone autograft (chunks of knee cap, shin, and strip of tendon connecting them) usually 4 1/2 months. Optimistically he might be cleared for unrestricted cutting and pivoting (the last activities to be permitted) circa January 2020. Very surgery (and hence surgeon) dependent, though.

We’re a match for each team on the schedule. If the most likely outcome occurred every week, we should arguably end up 12-0. But the games aren’t independent, and bad things happen. No sense planning on bad luck, though. I’m drinking the Koolaid from aisle 12.

With all those gardens, almost as much fertilizer, though.

A little of both.

Broke 4 bones plus tore an ankle ligament would be especially unusual and bad. The fractures that go most commonly with ankle injuries are the lower ends of the fibula (skinny bone of lower leg) and tibia (shin). The most common bad version of this pattern would be a “trimalleolar” fracture: tibia in 3+ pieces and fibula in 2+. As bad as it is, there would be a ray of hope for being back on it in 6 weeks after surgery and on the field by November. Sometimes the tibia breaks through the weight bearing surface instead of around the edges (plafond fracture). That drops the chances of seeing the field this year close to 0. If he broke his actual ankle bone (talus), he’s getting into new levels of bad. To get to 4 separate bones, you’d add another to those, and it you’d be moving into “unlikely even to walk without a little bit of a limp” territory. Bottom line, it probably is about how it sounds: no chance he sees the field before October at the earliest— even that would be a surprise— maybe never, depending on what “broke four bones” means.

The bruise diagnosis on Ingram is good news. Low-grade high ankle sprain on Sterns isn't great, but it isn't terrible. Average return to play for something like that is typically about 3 weeks. Sounds like Sterns is out for camp but is likely to be back in time to get some practice before LSU. Agree with phdhorn that groin doesn't sound like a nothing. I haven't seen anything about Whit through official channels, though.

Volleyball meme + the DL sweep may just be the 1-2 punch that KOs Jimbo's street cred.

My gut is Collins wants to pick Texas in a way that tells himself it has nothing to do with Mom. Well, almost nothing. I have trouble believing that he would rather play on a crappy defense at a crappy university in an Oklahoma suburb when he has the chance to be a part of something special here. If there were some big issue driving him away from us, I think a bigger whiff of it would have found its way to the board.

Hook'em!

I clicked on the links at the NCAA database for Texas and for A&M. 2015-2018 are far above their historic average for donations, A&M's runaway best revenue category. RD or someone who knows better than I: is this bump still from the Kroger Kountry Klub construction, or do they have a new steady stream of available donor cash?

Yes, there did seem to be a surge of trollery. His greatest problem may have been his timing.

I think the tolerance for new posters who boldly insist on stupid things will prove quite limited. I don't think being aggy was necesarily his biggest mistake, though it certainly didn't help him. I think he was talking about Milroe when he opined, (emphasis added). For a newbie, that post almost begged for trouble. I agree that we did seem to hit him awfully hard based on what he posted, however.

Overshown -- apparently back to FULL GO as of first fall camp scrimmage. Whittington -- rumored groin. Supposedly nothing to worry about. Ingram -- "tweaked knee." IT thinks it is nothing and that he'll be back by the opener. Sterns -- "rolled ankle." Again, IT thinks he'll be back by La Tech. Kirk -- SC sprain. No new news. ETA circa 9/21. Brown, Floyd -- no change. not expected this year.

There was a nonspecific mention in a practice report of moving Overshown around. Hopefully it is current info and means he is back to full go.

After a touchdown, you are supposed to hand the DB to the ref, not spike it. Seriously, I don’t think there will ever be a more impressive finish to a TD run.

Burrow knows the new offense so well that they don’t want to waste snaps on him.

Was anyone seriously expecting meaningful snaps out of him?

Floyd— OUT, no change Brown— OUT, no change Kirk— SC sprain, possible return sometime in September (estimated 6 weeks 8/10) Overshown— poorly specified sprain, in boot. Maybe back soon if this is minor ankle injury versus unstable midfoot. K Watson— leg bone contusion, in boot. Contusions (bruises) can hurt like and take as long as fractures (breaks) to recover. Some guys feel better faster and/or play through it. This can also be a catch-bucket for blunt force mechanism of injury where no further exact diagnosis jumps out. Best guess he’s back during camp.

It’s not really a possession argument, but efficiency is arguably affected by actual elapsed time, NOT game clock, between defensive series in that guys need rest. More plays total on defense could similarly wear a team down, but that should generally cut both ways if there are more possessions, I would think.

Long troll

That’s not their pronoun

Believe it or not, some of the most useless doctors on staff are often the Harvard-trained ones. Some combination of the crowd that wants to train there and the tendency of patients there to expect that Herr Doktor Professor (or at least a fellow) does the surgeries, I guess.

Which one of you Surls is Hugh McElroy?