ND CB Lo Wood out for season

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Notre Dame starting CB and former Michigan target Lo Wood tore his Achilles and is out for the season. Notre Dame's secondary was their weakest unit and biggest concern entering the season as they graduated 3 of their starters from last year (Robert Blanton, Gary Gray, & Harrison Smith) and lost out on their star CB recruits from the 2012 class (Ronald Darby & Tee Shepard).

Which leaves them with this:

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Without a healthy Lo Wood, Notre Dame has two scholarship cornerbacks who were actually recruited to play cornerback. Two.

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WolvinLA2

August 20th, 2012 at 9:30 PM ^

Yep, according to the depth chart on rivals

http://notredame.rivals.com/cdepthtext.asp

He was slotted to start, and the two back ups are a freshmen and a sophomore. 

Also of note - damn they have a lot of seniors starting this year.  5 on defense and 8 on offense, in addition to 4 second string players.  They should take a solid step back in 2013, especially after such a bad 2012 recruiting class.

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JT4104

August 20th, 2012 at 9:10 PM ^

Damn that sucks for him....hope he has a speedy recovery and comes back stronger next year. Never want to see injuries on these college student athletes.

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CLord

August 20th, 2012 at 9:35 PM ^

Denard should be lighting it up down in South Bend.  Pun intended, but let's knock on Wood our guys stay healthy the next several weeks, and the same goes for ND.  ND may have obnoxious fans and an eggplant headed head coach, but it's a quality Midwest institution, and lately I've been rooting for them vs Sparty and USC.  Speedy recovery to Mr. Wood.

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turd ferguson

August 20th, 2012 at 10:24 PM ^

I have a very particular set of goals for Michigan's rivals.

Ideally, Ohio State would go 12-1 and look like it's clearly the best team in the country but for its excrutiatingly painful loss to Michigan that knocked them out of the the national championship game, Rose Bowl, and everything else.

Ideally, Michigan State would go 0-12 and lose every game by 50-150 points.

Ideally, Notre Dame would finish every season just on the other side of "good" such that they get some hope the following year only to see the same disappointment repeat indefinitely (maybe 6-6 or 7-5 every season).

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ohio

August 21st, 2012 at 10:31 AM ^

I second that. I'm from Columbus and  while I don't live there anymore, nothing was better than walking in WalMart on a Saturday after an Ohio loss and seeing the disdain on everyone's faces. I never want them to win...not even their bowl games.

Interestingly, both Spielman and Herbstreit are on the radio there frequently and while Spielman openly professes his hatred for Michigan and that he cannot bring himself to cheer for them ever, Herbie, always the politician, is of the 'I'd rather beat an undefeated Michigan team so we look better' mindset. Screw that dude! Ohio fans I'm sure thoroughly enjoyed the horror and the Oregon beat down the following weak, and rightfully so. That's how it should be. When Miller got hurt last year against Nebraska and fans watched helplessly as their 21 point lead disinegrated, I didn't feel the least bit sorry for them or Bauserman!

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M Fanfare

August 20th, 2012 at 9:58 PM ^

I was counting this one as a tossup since it's a night game and we've been living dangerously against them the last three seasons, not to mention the weird juju that is the Notre Dame-Michigan series where the favored team almost always loses...but now I'm putting this in the "lean win" or "probable win" column.

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WolverineHistorian

August 21st, 2012 at 10:05 AM ^

No matter how bad Notre Dame is on paper, I always fear playing in that stadium. We've lost to bad ND teams there before. The phantom touchdown, the phantom holding, the tipped passes going 60 yards, the ref using an index card to measure for a first down. The last three years have not made me forget all the horrible things that have gone wrong in that stadium over the years. Plus ND always seems to get up for us. Their offense was a machine against us last year, then two weeks later, they could barely move the ball at all against a bad Pitt team.

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Roy G. Biv

August 20th, 2012 at 10:42 PM ^

As a man I can't speak to childbirth, but I can tell you my kidney stone was the most intense pain I've ever experienced.  Nearly 20 years of rugby doesn't even once come remotely close to it.  I wouldn't even wish that on a Buckeye.

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931 S State

August 20th, 2012 at 11:36 PM ^

My buddy tore his achilles playing flag football a few years ago.  He handled it pretty well.  Said he felt like he was hit in the calf with a bat.  Was not in excruciating pain or anything.  The rehab is (or at least was until recently) the hard part...9 months to get back to full speed.  I work with a guy who had his repaired with a new surgical technique and he was back to playing golf at 3 months.

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ohio

August 21st, 2012 at 10:46 AM ^

I say we win by 3 scores. I honestly believe the hype around Jerald Robinson and Jerome Jackson because it is directly from the coaches and they (other Coach Jackson) are not in the business of unecessary hype. Case in point, Jake Ryan and Brennan Byer. Their names came up repeatedly during camp last year and now we see why. Other than Vince Smith, rarely does Coach Hoke bring up for praise individual players. If Darboh or Chesson can contribute at all, the receiver corps may be much deeper than it seems with Junior gone. Win or lose the Cowboy Classic, running around against ND's depleted secondary that Michigan's receivers have no fear of(!) will seem like a night game against EMU compared to the 'SEC speed' they will see next Saturday night.

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WolvinLA2

August 20th, 2012 at 10:21 PM ^

Their nickle package is probabaly gonna suck a lot too, this means. If we can get our passing game pumping, this could get out of hand. This isn't nearly as bad when they play us and MSU as it will be for Oklahoma and USC who'd be happy if they never had to run the ball.

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dj89

August 20th, 2012 at 11:15 PM ^

Was not so long ago we were converting receivers to DBs ourselves. Maybe JT Turner could transfer to ND & wear those spiffy uniforms!

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