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Magus Ossis

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  1. Factor in the typical unexciting classes in transition years, and Urbs is going to need to lots of help by way of JuCo and grad transfers. His next solid homegrown line won’t start to see the field until at least 22 or 23.
  2. Yeah I think there was mainly not so much shitting on him as lamenting the drama and risk he represents. He proved the posters wrong by going back in time and not getting suspended from his HS team and then signing the only outstanding LOI from the 2019 recruiting class at Texas with no aggy cap in sight. He is a physical freak. He is only a teenager. He is a Horn now. I think we all want it to work out with him. But let’s not pretend he was or is just like every other guy in the class in terms of risk.
  3. Sorry. That was directed more at docs. A chest tube is a big fat tube to suck blood or air from between the rib cage and the lungs. You wouldn’t normally have one for a brain clot. We are hashing out what the family means by chest tube. It is entirely possible that his lung got popped (understandably and accidentally) by people caring for him and that he really had a chest tube. I speculated that the family may be calling a “chest tube” what is truly a tube sticking into his chest but would be termed a “central venous line/catheter” or CVL. This can be used for several things, but one is putting a sensor in the bloodstream to take accurate pressure measurements at the heart. These measurements are also often taken in an artery at the wrist. MAP is short for mean arterial pressure. ICP (measured with a probe inside the skull) is intracranial pressure. CPP is cerebral perfusion pressure. If MAP is not enough above ICP, the blood doesn’t get pushed into brain tissue from the arteries up there. Docs monitor these pressures on guys with swollen brains to be able to tweak them with drugs or positioning tricks, know when it is OK to worry less, and know when it may be time to take off a piece of skull to decompress the brain. Pneumo is short for pneumothorax— air between the rib cage and the lung, usually from a popped lung.
  4. He has a known intracranial process. There is the obvious talk of pressure. The classic way to track CPP is MAP - ICP. If the concerns about ICP are waning, having a CVL to keep close track of MAP becomes less important. It is pretty standard to have a CVL early on in cases like this, and it would be a bit unusual for it to be the primary access. It is for CPP management with a peripheral IV for routine access. But I agree we can't know for sure that he doesn't have a pneumo, too.
  5. Not everybody realizes that John Heisman's (yes THAT Heisman) destination school was Rice. He coached there and was AD from 1924-1927. Also little known are some of the former coaches from Southern Miss. Two of the bigger ones: Idi Amin 1963-1968 (29-14-2) went on to coach the Ugandan Military Academy Team 1969-1971 before entering politics J. Warren Jones 1968 (bowl) - 1975 (12-34-1) was unable to build on the success of his predecessor, but is widely credited for improving hydration regimens in athletics. His KoolAid innovations do not technically predate Texas alumnus Robert Cade's Gatorade, but they are still mentioned today.
  6. I'm still not entirely clear how he has a job covering Texas recruiting. It seems like a significant market in desperate need of another qualified and motivated contributor.
  7. Recruiting writers are apparently very different. This is the second time in two days I initially had trouble believing the portrayals linked here were real.
  8. Doing anything again will depend on what kind of shape his brain is in. Even if everything is good, he will likely need a fair bit of rehab. I have only seen reference to one leg moving. Assuming his brain is OK, he will likely need to be on anticoagulation/blood thinners for a while. He will probably get worked up for residual risk factors. If a year has gone by, he is doing well, and no risk factors for recurrence are found, he might be taken off anticoagulation and allowed to participate. If he coded, he might need a chest tube for injuries from compressions. “Chest tube” may also be used here rather loosely to refer to a large central venous catheter. I would think the latter is more likely.
  9. If his list legitimately has 12 guys on it, we might still have a chance to impress him. If he has it down to 1 or 2 and is just blowing smoke up 10 other chimneys, not so much.
  10. Great to hear he continues to do well. Checking the heart would usually mean the clot was arterial (much like a lot of strokes in older people) and that an echocardiogram (ultrasound of the heart) is being done to see whether there is clot in it which supplied the chunk(s) found in the brain. The fact that they have waited to perform it tends to suggest that the study is trans-esophageal (probe down the throat to get it close to the heart).
  11. With that name and that HS, how could he go anywhere but Ole Miss?
  12. https://www.quora.com/profile/Luke-Leifker Honestly I thought you made up that second paragraph as a sick joke. This dude is publicly a gay, piano-playing, vegetarian, libertarian aggy wannabe. He could not possibly fit in there less.
  13. Yeah he was leaning aggy but is so obedient to the Texas team he scorns that he publicly dissed aggy. Or something like that. Or maybe we bought him a year after he committed. I forget.
  14. Texas is a marquee name. Aggy (and pig) = selling SEC on the strength of big brothers. edit Machininator beat me to the punch.
  15. So, Russell ILB *** 6'1 228 looks like a probably Ainias Smith ATH *** 5'10 187 looks like a probably at WR but will get tried at CB when no one else can cover C Williams CB **** 6"1 182 to LSU J Shepherd OT **** 6'6 327 to Texas
  16. Local celebrity?
  17. 1. I don't tweet. 2. I occasionally Google. 3. #2 above turns up slim pickins in terms of news on Henry after this weekend. He does not have any Pig stuff obviously on his twitter (but does still have Ole Miss and Texas). 247 talk on him is behind a paywall. Some other website refers to "Scoota," apparently one of their LB, who tweeted a cryptic smiley face this AM. They also mentioned that his GF was with him during his visit to pig yesterday. Translation: who knows.
  18. Would be funny if Taggart were to have Free Shoes back in the saddle next year and wound up facing aggy the the TaxSlayer.
  19. Don't make fun of Sushi. While you knuckleheads out there cold shootin' some hoops, he findin' good music. Don't quote me... 'cause I ain't sayin' shit.
  20. aggy seems to have an unofficial strategy of populating the milieu of Texas education with as many former student teachers and coaches as possible. They are ballooning their enrollment to help achieve this. We could and would never make UT a diploma factory for such career paths. Our best defense is to make sure that all the other more reputable diploma mills (and their alumni) know as much as possible about the fascinating Fightin' Texum Bulldog turdition of eksalens. edit autocorrect doesn't know about turdition.
  21. What a great example. I love having guys like this on our team.
  22. Once upon a time I worked as a tutor for a D1 athletics department. The same pool of tutors helped all sports, sometimes even smart kids. I helped one with calculus 2. We all understood that some of my “colleagues” were doing the work for the athletes, but my knowledge was never direct enough to make an accusation. The cheaters were smart enough to do it out of sight and not confess. edit: I knew a former swimmer, and her work was done for her regularly. She picked it up in a box every day. Neither of these programs was UT.
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