Jake Butt Likely To Be Back Before B1G Season
According to this Detroit News ARTICLE, Jake Butt is recovering well from his ACL injury and was able to run some yesterday without pain. Coach Hoke anticipates that he could be game-ready by the third or fourth game of the season. There's a lot of time between now and then, but it sounds like it's more likely than not that Michigan will have Butt available in time for the B1G season, with one or two games already under his belt to shake off the proverbial rust.
Hoke see's Butt's rehab situation as being similar to Jake Ryan's recovery from ACL injury:
“I would think to really have him back where you’d want him, it probably would be game three or four,” Hoke said this spring of Butt. “So it is similar in some ways to (Ryan), but we’ll just have to see. Everybody heals differently.” From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140528/SPORTS0201/305280109#ixzz33…
Exaclty. Job on the line, time to pony up.
he's very unlikely to see the field. But that's easily the most pessimistic scenario I've heard for his injury in this day and age.
Not saying Butt is like Adrian Peterson, but AP showed in 2012 that one can come back 100% the following season from an ACL injury.
My hope is that the medical and coaching staff will only do what's in the athlete's best long-term interest. Of course that hope is based on me projecting my values onto others.
But I think when Hoke talks about getting Butt to "where he needs to be" is coach-speak for full recovery + full conditioning. If I'm reading that right, I think it's better to get him onto the field for the B1G season. If Butt is able to meet the schedule Hoke mentions, Butt's really only missing NDU, and I heard somewhere that we won't be playing them in 2015.
if they RSed Ryan that he would be back for two more years? The one position that the ACL injury seems to have major effect is with RBs who never seem fully back to strength until the second year back.
When you say that "You play when you're medically cleared to play. Not when your heart and mind think it's best."
and then you follow up with Rose, "Got hurt again because he let the mental side kill him. Not because he wasn't ready."
I'm not arguing for or against it but it just seems also like an argument for not playing until you're mentally ready.
If's he's healthy, ready and able to go at that point, I say do it. I'm excited to see him, Funchess, Darboh, Chesson, Canteen and others. This team needs a big year and if he can help do that, I'm all for it. Plus, he started to come on strong towards the end of last season as a Freshman. I think he has a ton of upside.
he ran. MLive, Detroit News and other sources took old Hoke quotes to add volume to a simple tweet so the quotes are not up to date information. They are from just after the surgery.
I have no idea whether he's on schedule or not but I wouldn't get too excited until there is an update on his current progress and what that means time wise.
The good news is he's running and making progress.
If nothing else, this reinforces the idea that Butt has been on a good track for recovery, and indeed, the predictions that the timing of the injury meant a likely return around the start of the conference schedule might very well have been on point back at the end of February. Good to hear that he is well enough to do some light running and pain-free, from the sound of it.
happened vs Butt's? Was it earlier or later in the spring?
If Butt is 90% or better then he should play. I was in the camp that believed JMFR should've taken a medical redshirt last year. We do need him but we should err on the side of caution.
But what about Pipkins? Is he even alive!?
You mean Pimpkins?
When he went down...if you used the same timeframe as Jake Ryan it put you the week before the B1G season. Basically missing the non-conference schedule.
It's news because it was never confirmed, but certainly not surprising considering we had a player do it just last year.