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You’re looking for a couple of things postoperative, but if the patient responds to commands, you have cleared a big hurdle. It is news that no deficit seems to be concerning the surgeon.

That sounds like really good news. Thank God!

On offense, the star was RB Traveon Williams, with TE Sternberger and OC McCoy both quality players as well. Ausbon is their best outside receiver; he and QB Mond (good runner, below average passer) return, unlike the previous 3 listed. The line ranked circa 60 in metrics that do not account for the terrible OOC competition. With more experience at 3 positions and similar OG talent behind what they lose, the line will likely be comparable in ‘19 despite getting worse at OC. Mond will likely be a little better passing but with worse numbers without Sternberger down the seam or Williams to keep teams honest. Running obviously worse losing Williams. Overall offense will be a step backwards.

Aggy roster for 2019 (based on 247). Please amend as needed. 2018 Starters in bold, possibly good young guys in italics QB: Mond JR Blumrick, Foster, Fernandez SO, Calzada FR RB: Williams gone. Richardson, Jackson, Kibodi, Prince, Corbin SO, Spiller FR WR: Ausbon, Davis, Jones, Rogers, Paul, Buckley JR, Preston, Chapman SO, Wright, Brown, Jackson, Lane FR TE: Stern gone, Beal SO, Cupp, Wydermyer FR OT: Diesch, Moore, Green JR, Matthews, Blanton SO, Green, Trainor FR OG: Prater SR, Hocker, Anderson, Spann JR, Jenkins, Reed SO OC: McCoy gone, McCollum JR, Clement SO, Robinson FR DE: Clemons SR, Wright, Brown, Martin, Harry, Johnson, Wilson, Robinson SO, Leal, Hunter FR DT: J Mad, Moton, Peevey, Diallo JR, Rogers SO, Jones, Ellison FR ILB: Brown, White FR OLB: Pryor SR, Hansford, Okeke, Johnson JR, Hines SO, Lee, Orebo FR CB: Elam, Howard, Oliver JR, Fuller, Chatman, Reynolds, Renfro, Jones SO, Blades, Young FR S: Tucker , Carper JR, Morris, O’Neal SO, Williams, Richardson FR K/P Mann (P) SR, Small (K) SO, Davis (K) FR

Even throwing cash around like crazy, dirty Tom couldn’t flip our all-guard line recruits. All they managed were some soft guys who, unlike first appearance, clearly don’t like getting their hands dirty.

He’s a little man. Right now, aggy treats him like a very big man. He is going to like it in CS while he is “big.” Little man will not like it when they start questioning his bigness.

We are living in some bizarro world. We have a 4* commit at a position of need visiting. He has been rumored to be a flip risk to aggy or maybe even a silent flip. It also happens to be the final weekend before NSD. And we have no actual recruiting news to discuss, apparently.

His last year as OC at Tech, his offense ran 76.5 (#33 nationally, #5 B12) plays per game, according to teamrankings.com.

I translated “blood clot removed from brain” as likely thrombotic process versus “was bleeding in his brain.” Your point is well taken in that we don’t know his diagnosis with any real certainty.

The real delay on return is getting off anticoagulation, assuming the brain works. That skull will heal in 6 weeks.

I don’t gaf but I don’t brag about the aggy code.

Not tampering, but a great show of upholding the aggy code. Encourage a young man to break his word. Better still, aggy was delighted when they thought JS was lying about remaining committed to us while secretly liking aggy more.

Yes. Have you seen someone with a tremor? They aren’t choosing to shake. Motor function, emotion, speech; it is all run from the brain. Grand Mal seizures are more profound than mild baseline chorea, and impaired inhibitions are not as severe as total prefrontal dysfunction. The disease progresses. If you are a dualist, the disease disconnects the body (mouth, etc) from the soul. If you are a materialist, the process of consciousness progressively breaks down.

I hope no one who mocks or goes after Derrian over there ever has to learn first-hand about illness like this in his own child. May God have mercy on Derrian and on us all.

1. You are wrong. 2. Post less tearing down those who can’t defend themselves, especially in cases covered by (1) above. 3. Everyone responds to brain disease differently, but there are a number of known patterns. Chronic progressive encephalopathies like CTE impair function of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, among others. This is a biological change to actual brain tissue that would otherwise perform functions like regulating emotions and exercising restraint. People with advanced disease frequently have their rights curtailed and are assigned custodians as if they were children. God alone knows exactly how bad Nobis’ or anyone else’s disease is until autopsy, but the history I read suggests that Tommy Nobis suffered from a long and devastating biological loss of brain function. 4. If you have actual medical training that qualifies you to question the scientific literature on this topic, I am all ears. Otherwise, let’s please stick with the science and drop the personal attacks. Let us please extend them the benefit of the doubt and Mortui requiescant in pace.

Blood clot and seizure in a young athlete— best guess CSVT: cerebral spinovenous thrombosis that resulted in a seizure. Basically a stroke, but backing up drainage out of brain tissue rather than arterial inflow as in a classic adult embolic stroke.

Yeah, I thought he committed, but my understanding was that he has not signed. Is he worth trying to flip this late in the game?

Is Glass still an option, along maybe with at least one grad transfer? note: Derrian is in our thoughts and prayers, but this thread would seem the obvious place for discussion of 2019 recruiting nevertheless.

What about Glass? Signed yet? A take? Burned bridge? oops wrong thread

We don’t have good enough information to know what his prospects are even for graduating HS. I hope he is well enough to do so and recovering sufficiently to go to school out of state. Heck, I hope he returns to football and tears it up for us someday. But if my son had to be on eliquis for cerebral thrombosis, I’d rather he initially took cc classes close to home than flew on airplanes and hung out with who-knows, halfway across the country.

Assuming he graduates HS this year, college will likely be pretty close to home. Momma would be well advised and will likely be highly motivated to keep him close to home.

Yeah, thanks. I forgot to mention blood thinners. Probably minimum one year of zero contact, best case.

Depending on what they mean by blood clot in the brain and surgery, this could have been a full-on craniectomy or a percutaneous thrombectomy by interventional radiology. Either way, the key to his future will be how much brain died before intervention. Unless he had very minor tissue injury and/or amazing recovery, next season may be done, and football.

You argued a parallel to GD— I’m willing to see it but don’t. Meh was demoted/the coaching duties were reorganized. Do you think the way things were reorganized for 2018 was demonstrably a failure? Or do you see growth in on-field performance and plus recruiting? Do you think we land Bru if we fire Meh after the Sugar Bowl? I’m not trying to be a jerk— I honestly see reason to think our coaching staff, while imperfect, is largely worth keeping together. I like the player esprit de corps; I love the Sugar Bowl win; I love the recruiting. We are set to put the finishing touches on a great 2019 class including two great outside and two great inside receivers, plus a safety guy we landed when Bru was uncertain. We are off to a great start on the next year’s recruiting. I have not noticed our outside receivers running especially crappy routes, dropping a lot of easy catches, or failing to block. As I stated, I am persuadable that Meh sucks. To me, the evidence that he is holding us back from winning the big recruiting battles or big games is lacking, however.