MSU Linebacker Jon Reschke likely done for the season with foot injury

Submitted by SAMgO on

Spreading fast on the boards/twitter this morning. Rumors of ligament damage. They're having some major LB injury issues so far this year, as Riley Bullough is also week-to-week with an undisclosed injury, rumored to be another collarbone issue.

HimJarbaugh

September 27th, 2016 at 10:37 AM ^

Not necessarily. I wouldn't be surprised if they start playing all of their young buys to build for 2017 and 2018. Hell with how pathetic their QB is, I wouldn't be surprised if they start a freshman vs. UM.

Crumbling would be losing to Rutgers at home. 

Alumnus93

September 27th, 2016 at 10:45 AM ^

I disagree here... Dantoni has never done so, going to youth... on the contrary, he reshirts everyone, and then plays lineups of 4th and 5th (and 6th) year seniors... this is how he beat us, while Hoke was burning redshirts...  23- 24 year olds vs 19-20 year olds.

ijohnb

September 27th, 2016 at 10:52 AM ^

may have no choice now.  Reschke and Bullough are the glue of that defense.  McDowell is the biggest playmaker but those guys make that D go.  They could have contended somewhat with some good bounces even after the loss to Wisconsin if O'Conner could rebound and be minimally competent.  However, the Reschke news would likely be DOOM.  It would not surprise me if D'armantano seriously played everybody and rotated like crazy at all positions, including QB, if this news is accurate.

 

Mr Miggle

September 27th, 2016 at 11:52 AM ^

Dantonio redshirts a lot of players because they just aren't ready to play. When he gets recruits that we wanted or at a similar level, they rarely redshirt, OL excepted. Reschke is an example of that. As his recruiting classes have improved, he's redshirting fewer players.

ypsituckyboy

September 27th, 2016 at 10:45 AM ^

According to Jeff Moss, one of the guys who had the Harbaugh scoop early (albeit a dude who appears to be a bit mentally unsteady), Max Bullough had to sit out of the Rose Bowl because of a fight. Apparently he and a former H.S. teammate got drunk, got into a fight, and Bullough absolutely destroyed the kid's face. Bullough's parents asked Dantonio to suspend him for the Rose Bowl and managed to keep the kid hushed by paying his medical bills.

 

ohheydude1

September 27th, 2016 at 11:00 AM ^

The attacks on the Bulloughs on this blog is tiresome.  By all accounts, Riley is a great leader, extremely hard worker and a grinder who has worked himself into a big time player.  There's no evidence he's used streroids.  He's the captain at a very legitimate program and one of the best linebackers in the Big Ten. 

This also seems like very silly speculation on Max.  I don't know all the details, but what I've heard is something entirely different than a fight.   

I really hate Michigan State - but baseless, personal attacks on their players is annoying.  

xtramelanin

September 27th, 2016 at 11:59 AM ^

just sayin', there's a bit more there.  they are well known and a very unique family - much of that is very cool stuff, but some of that is more on the wild side. 

ypsituckyboy

September 27th, 2016 at 11:16 AM ^

You know what ends speculation? Telling people why Max missed the Rose Bowl. Obviously, they're under no obligation to do so. But when you've got nothing to hide, why not just tell people the reason?

Also, you know who else was a great leader who helped his troops win many battles to take back home territory?

ijohnb

September 27th, 2016 at 11:29 AM ^

is unquestionably an odd situation.  He was not suspended for any NCAA violation, and if the fight was the reason, "drunk football player beats up another drunk football player" is not exactly groundbreaking news.  He would likely be sat for the Rose Bowl, but it would not seem to disqualify him from NFL interest which it seemingly did.  Further, regardless of whether he "paid the medical bills," if this was a serious beatdown of a possibly (at some point) unconscious or defenseless person, the kid would have gone to the hospital and there would have been criminal charges.  Further, if there was a "cover-up" and there were no criminal charges because he was a big shot football player, why sit him at all for the Rose Bowl to create speculation as to why he was in trouble?

The Bullough thing does remain a significant mystery.

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mGrowOld

September 27th, 2016 at 11:49 AM ^

Give credit where credit is due.  MSU has kept that story nailed shut and nobody has spoken a word about it since it broke.  You've got to know there are multiple people aware of what realy went down and nobody is talking.

That's impressive.  Shit, a sitting US President couldnt keep people from blabbing about something that happened under his watch and had to resign over it.  

ohheydude1

September 27th, 2016 at 11:37 AM ^

Yes, I do.  Losing to them last year was so utterly miserable.  The sparty yahoos I went to high school with were blowing up my phone with texts for days and days.  I had to take a facebook haitus for a good month, and I still get the highlight sent to me or tagged to me every once in a while.  

I had my gloating days during my time at UofM going 4-0, but man this stretch has been miserable for so many of us.  I even sat in my Mike Hart #20 jersey in EL in 2005 and got shoved down 3 rows of bleachers and spat on - but singing the Victors in the concourse walking out of the stadium sure felt great.  

 

MI Expat NY

September 27th, 2016 at 12:16 PM ^

Is a disclosure of a drug test really a HIPAA issues?  It's not a medical treatment or anything, and the results aren't inherently confidential between the player and the doctor.  Plus, I thought athletes generally waive their HIPAA protections, at least to some degree?

I also know enough medical professionals to know that there are plenty of loose lips in the profession.  

UM2k1

September 27th, 2016 at 12:25 PM ^

In this case, it isn't private medical information being shared. The medical staff are just connected to the program enough to know stuff like this, and even though they are obviously MSU fans, let the reason Bullough didn't play be known. The person I am connected to will remain anonymous, but they had absolutely nothing to gain by relaying this information. It was transmitted with an air of "dumb jock" behind it, and somewhat befuddled why someone would take the risk of using steroids.