Darboh Out for the Season
It wasn’t just a booboo:
Sophomore WR Amara Darboh will miss the 2013 season with a foot injury that will require surgery. #Team134Camp
— Michigan Football (@umichfootball) August 21, 2013
So much for Michigan’s best shot at a dragon target, a thing Borges missed since Hemingway graduated and which is probably not replaceable with anyone on the current roster. Michigan still has Gallon and Chesson and Dileo, and supposedly Joe Reynolds can produce, but Darboh was the guy on everyone’s list for non-Kalis breakout offensive player. It sucks.
Silver lining: more targets for Dileo and tight ends. Gold lining: your 2016 receivers could be senior Darboh and Chesson, junior Drake Harris and sophomore George Campbell.
August 21st, 2013 at 10:43 AM ^
August 21st, 2013 at 10:44 AM ^
N O R T H F L E E T
August 21st, 2013 at 10:51 AM ^
Oops - the "Derboh" misspelling was just a typo, but the ChessEN was just a crappy performance on my part.
August 21st, 2013 at 10:40 AM ^
August 21st, 2013 at 10:43 AM ^
Darboh probably wasn't going to be Braylon this year, but it's been sometime since we've had a great outside WR: Manningham and Arrington kind of. I wouldn't even throw Jr in there because he was basically just a jumpball specialist. I hope Chesson and/or a freshman is ready to step up
August 21st, 2013 at 11:19 AM ^
Manningham was excellent, but Arrington and Hemingway are in the same realm. Arrington had the advantage of playing with a quarterback who could throw the ball functionally. Hemingway's numbers could have been significantly better with a solid quarterback, but 34 catches for 699 yards and 4 touchdowns is pretty comparable (considering context) to Arrington's best year of 67 catches, 882 yards, and 8 touchdowns.
August 21st, 2013 at 10:46 AM ^
Nice kick in the nads to start the day.
I was just hoping we could make it through fall camp without losing anyone.
Crud.
August 21st, 2013 at 10:49 AM ^
August 21st, 2013 at 11:07 AM ^
Fuck Yeah! This is what you get!
August 21st, 2013 at 10:52 AM ^
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August 21st, 2013 at 11:24 AM ^
Luckily for us as fans, we still cheer for the most (or second most) talented team in the Big Ten, and will arguably have more talent than every team on the schedule. So yes, 7-5 is a "real" possibility, but so is 12-0.
August 21st, 2013 at 12:23 PM ^
August 21st, 2013 at 11:12 AM ^
Watching yesterday's press conference, Hoke seemed to be pretty pessimistic about this.... I kinda got the feeling this was coming down the pike!
August 21st, 2013 at 11:15 AM ^
damn. Speedy recovery good sir!
August 21st, 2013 at 11:17 AM ^
August 21st, 2013 at 11:19 AM ^
Well, that's a kick in the juggs.
Weirdly, though, this might be helpful in spacing out some of the WRs the next couple of years. And maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but with Funchess and Galon I felt like there are enough targets near the endzone to compensate for this loss.
August 21st, 2013 at 11:24 AM ^
I think we have 3 freshman WRs this year and 3 in the 2014 class so I dont think the spacing is an issue. If anything we needed some guys now to step up this year since other than Dileo and Gallon it is very thin out there. Maybe one of the true freshman can separate.
August 21st, 2013 at 11:21 AM ^
Bangs head on wall. Hoping its not a lisfranc type of thing. Best of luck in your recovery Mr. Darboh.
August 21st, 2013 at 11:34 AM ^
I bet he stepped on a Lego brick.
August 21st, 2013 at 11:33 AM ^
Why jump on the train when you could jump in front of it?
August 21st, 2013 at 11:37 AM ^
Is this your way of saying you want to off yourself? Not cool, man. They've got hotlines for people like you.
August 21st, 2013 at 3:44 PM ^
Can a ghost commit suicide?
August 21st, 2013 at 11:36 AM ^
Hah. Great minds think alike. I swear I read this thread and commented before I ventured over to the MGoBoard post on Darboh.
August 21st, 2013 at 11:40 AM ^
Ha, I'm not surprised, actually. It's not like there are a whole lot of "Jehu"s running around. I see "Jehu" and I pretty much think of one thing (hopefully a good season by Chesson supplants the band in my mind).
August 21st, 2013 at 11:46 AM ^
August 21st, 2013 at 12:44 PM ^
nickbaumgardner 12:24pm via Echofon
Borges says he's not fully confident in Michigan's frosh WRs yet. Doesn't se like they're an option, realistically, right now. nickbaumgardner 12:25pm via Echofon
Borges doesn't anticipate moving any DBs to WR. Mentions Chesson/Jackson/Reynolds as real options.
August 21st, 2013 at 11:04 PM ^
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