August 17th, 2010 at 7:20 PM ^
Maybe a severe dong punch and not the ankle?
August 17th, 2010 at 7:28 PM ^
He could take a shot to the ankle which would technically qualify as a dong punch.
/no homo
/okay, maybe a little bit
Get healthy, kid!
August 17th, 2010 at 7:20 PM ^
Injuries happen..players have to step up..get well really really soon Troy..Go Blue !
and FML
August 17th, 2010 at 7:21 PM ^
likely means imminent surgery...which of course means DOOM!
August 17th, 2010 at 7:36 PM ^
There's no way they brought him in today for surgery. Things don't happen that quickly. For one thing, they probably need to wait a little while for swelling to die down. For instance, when Vincent Smith tore his ACL, they didn't operate until over a week later.
That he's gone to the hospital means that there is the concern of serious injury but does not confirm anything.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:56 PM ^
it's a knee. My brother played for Toledo in the late 90s. Fractured his ankle / tore ligaments in a game and had surgery the same night. Never played again. Not trying to be a downer, but the phrase "transported to hopital with team physician" sounds like more than a precautionary measure.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:05 PM ^
No, I'm not assuming it's a knee. Actually, when I hear "lower body injury" I normally assume it's an ankle, since that's the most common. The point holds - swelling is swelling. If you break your ankle, it can't be operated on for a few days, either.
We've had players go straight from the field to the hospital before. It has not always resulted in a disastrous injury. All it means for sure is that there is the appearance of something serious.
August 17th, 2010 at 9:16 PM ^
My original point was "imminent" surgery, not necessarily surgery today. If you want to keep praying to the gods of lower leg injury, be my guest. In the meantime, the rest of us will be watiing for you in the land of reality.
.In case you haven't been reading the main page and updates from Brian:
"UPDATE II: Getting reports it is a dislocated ankle, which is in all likelihood season-ending."
August 17th, 2010 at 9:20 PM ^
Why are you being such an ass? If you want people to stop negging you, this isn't the way.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:12 PM ^
They take everyone to the hospital because that's where the doctors are. Your brother's case is 100% not the norm, nor have I ever heard of such a thing for an ankle injury. Assuming there was a doctor at the field, with an x-ray machine, and the time to do motion testing, and read the x-ray, and then call and have an anesthesiologist set up for surgery, and then get all the paperwork filled out including multiple consent forms and scholarship issues, and woolfolk was briefed on the procedure, the complications and signed the consent then maybe, MAYBE, they would take him to surgery tonight. I don't know how they do it in Toledo but the only way surgery is done immediately is if it's life threatening, no chance that's the case at all.
August 17th, 2010 at 9:04 PM ^
"and was transported to U-M Hospital with our team physcian"
Good call genius. You are really adding a lot to this discussion.
August 17th, 2010 at 9:31 PM ^
Very construction.
August 17th, 2010 at 10:09 PM ^
Troy needs to get better. We can't change whatever injury he has. Also, we don't KNOW what injury he has yet. Nothing is official. Let's start hoping for the best, though I can't really blame anyone for freaking out right now. The past is in the past. Now if he is hurt, they'll find the best possible replacement. He probably won't be as good as Woolfolk but the season's not over yet. Actually, it hasn't even started. Stop getting pissed about something you don't know for sure/can't change.
PS: Injuries can vary. Nobody cares about what happened with your brother's injury.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:22 PM ^
at this very moment ...
August 17th, 2010 at 7:24 PM ^
Who do you guys think taught Mr Muyagi to heal the sweeped leg ? ... of course it was Barwis
August 17th, 2010 at 7:22 PM ^
Wow, this is terrible. I pray that he is alright and this is just precautionary or standard procedure for a bad break.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:22 PM ^
Maybe RR is just starting to get more Lloyd in what he says to the media. Could still be ankle. Or could be dong. Which is worse?
August 17th, 2010 at 7:38 PM ^
Lower body injury? Really? Thank you, Scotty Bowman, and how many shifts will he miss before T-Wolf is back on the ice?
August 17th, 2010 at 7:22 PM ^
shit the hospital immediately? shit.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:24 PM ^
If this were hockey, it could be anything from a slightly ingrown tonail to an above the knee amputation.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:25 PM ^
Does anyone know if there is an x-ray machine at Schembechler Hall or would any injury requiring an xray involve a trip to U-M Hospital?
August 17th, 2010 at 7:26 PM ^
Either way it can't be good.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:26 PM ^
but either way, they want the specialists at UM hospital to review the X-Ray (maybe other scans) and look at the ankle.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:31 PM ^
From mgoblue.com
Schembechler Hall Medical Suite Located adjacent to the athletic training room in Schembechler Hall is a 5,000 square foot medical suite. This area includes a team physicians office, an athletic counseling office, a conference room, 2 private exam rooms, a medical procedures room, a x-ray/MRI viewing area and a fluoroscope that produces x-ray like images.
But nothing about there being an actual x-ray machine. Here's hoping that's the case and he was taken their for x-rays instead of it being say "an emergency"
August 17th, 2010 at 7:34 PM ^
You can clearly see fractures using flouroscopy. The mages that are basically exactly the same as an x-ray.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:29 PM ^
August 17th, 2010 at 7:31 PM ^
Agreed. It could have been precautionary. The fact is, we don't know. So until I hear anything official from the athletic dept. I'm not going to pull my hair out.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:27 PM ^
Well a broken leg (like Tyrone Prothro had in the Alabama - Florida game) would require immediate transport to the hospital. It also would heal in 6 weeks.
I'm not saying this happened, I'm just saying it doesn't mean he's gone for the season, or he's dead, or whatever other new information is out there that the University hasn't confirmed.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:30 PM ^
Ummm, Prothro never played again after that.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:35 PM ^
I know. I'm was just giving an example of a compound fracture that has happened recently in football. Also, though that break was worse than most, most compound fractures are classified as being able to heal in about 6 weeks. It was unfortunate for Prothro that he couldn't get his leg rehabilitated to the point where he could return to football, but we don't know what the injury is to Woolfolk.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:42 PM ^
Maybe a better example would be DeAndre Brown of Southern Miss. He broke his leg in their bowl game two seasons ago, and was fine to start the next season. I don't think he was fine in six weeks, but he was at least able to recover and keep playing football.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:44 PM ^
Let's hope he has a Terrell Owens type fibula fx. Required surgery, but he was back (and effective) in 6 weeks for the Eagles in the playoffs in '04(?).
August 17th, 2010 at 7:56 PM ^
Yeah this was the effect I was going for.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:33 PM ^
that guy had one of the best looking catches of all time and one of the worst-looking injuries of all time
August 17th, 2010 at 7:38 PM ^
Protho is pretty much a worst-case-scenario. Let's hope its not that.
My guess is that he has a bimalleolar fracture with a sydesmosis, only because this is a very common ankle injury.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:28 PM ^
I'm hope it's not an Antonio Bass type injury. Sounds pretty serious.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:31 PM ^
But what the hell else are we going to do for the next 17.8 days?
August 17th, 2010 at 7:32 PM ^
Good luck, Troy!
August 17th, 2010 at 7:47 PM ^
You can totally tell that the PANIC button is just glued on.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:35 PM ^
If we can't out defend them, we will out score them ... Go Blue !!!!
August 17th, 2010 at 8:57 PM ^
We were going to put in our 4th string corner anyway after we were up by 28.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:38 PM ^
to the front 7 (6?).
August 17th, 2010 at 7:38 PM ^
Until we get final confirmation on the extent of the injuries, we should just relax
August 17th, 2010 at 8:19 PM ^
He doesn't look too worried to me. Neither should you be. Take a few minutes, calm your nerves. Everything will be just fine.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:42 PM ^
Cullen CHRISTian?
Bring it on.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:00 PM ^
One microscopic silver lining is that this is the probably the position at which natural ability trumps experience more than any other. We've had many freshman starters at CB. Good corners usually do see the field very early in their careers.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:10 PM ^
If there is one position at which an experience apocalypse is absorbable, it is corner on defense and running back on offense.
Now, that doesn't mean I'm not stocking up on canned goods, but still.
August 17th, 2010 at 10:19 PM ^
I think that he will step up. Bring it on you say? Yes Cullen can!!
August 17th, 2010 at 7:43 PM ^
Michigan-Ohio State 2006 is on the BTN.
Pull up, Shawn. DON'T DO IT...