Harbaugh: Speight NOT out for the season (UPDATE 7:51pm)

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Says it's a game-time decision but the reports of him being out for the reason are simply incorrect.

Just said this now on the Inside Michigan Football radio show.

I WANT TO BELIEVE

Harbaugh said Speight will be out of practice a "couple days" this week and "we'll see"

— angelique (@chengelis) November 15, 2016

Harbaugh says any report saying Speight is out for the season is incorrect.

— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) November 15, 2016

UPDATE: Speight just retweeted the above the tweet from NB that he is not out for the season. For old folks, a retweet is basically an endorsement in cases like these.

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DealerCamel

November 14th, 2016 at 7:24 PM ^

They'd better figure it out one way or another pretty soon.  If he can't go, O'Korn will have needed the first-team reps in practice, and those make a huge difference.

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Hard-Baughlls

November 15th, 2016 at 10:18 AM ^

will just wait until gameday and throw somebody out there.

Hell, maybe they'll pull a student out of the stands and he can take the snaps.  

As for practice, I'm guessing they can just go through the plays without a QB for now, or put a llama back there in the mean time.

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mGrowOld

November 14th, 2016 at 8:39 PM ^

Not really. I was pushing for O'Korn earlier but after seeing him in a coupe of games I saw why he wasn't playing. Bails on the play too fast and throws into coverage. You haven't heard me asking for him to play in over a month FWIW.

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DairyQueen

November 15th, 2016 at 7:52 AM ^

That's immediately what I thought on the hit.

It looked like a classic separated shoulder.

The Iowa DT lowers his helmet squarely on Speight's shoulder and the shoulder compresses into the joint (think getting checked into the boards while playing hockey while not wearing any pads).

Also, for what it's worth, separated shoulders have the largest ranges of  disability/pain.

It could be very little and we could see him back against OSU, or even Indiana. He also could be out for 4 weeks.

The fact that a) Harbaugh said he's going to take reps this week, and b) he didn't come out of the game and threw a few passes which were fine, leads me to believe it may have been one of the milder, low-grade separation.

Which journalist broke the "out for season" story? Credibility?

 

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AFWolverine

November 15th, 2016 at 4:17 AM ^

That is literally the best and nearly the only non-obnoxious thing he has done here. The rest of his posts uniformz and glorification of his so-called super guide to Michigan athletics. It's eye-scratchingly annoying most of the time.

EDIT: He also posts the game replays every week. So he has that going for him, too, which is nice.

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bronxblue

November 14th, 2016 at 7:43 PM ^

It doesn't really matter, but my guess is that Harbaugh is doing this to keep IU off guard. It seems unlikely people would claim a guy is out with a broken collarbone if it wasn't a real possibility.

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JOHNNAVARREISMYHERO

November 14th, 2016 at 7:54 PM ^

Please stay away from Tom Crean this week Harbaugh.

You didn't last year and needed a miracle to beat a cellar dellar program.  

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stephenrjking

November 14th, 2016 at 8:02 PM ^

Post update: I'll believe it when I see it. But if Speight can go in a Columbus, that's a huge plus. A non-throwing shoulder injury shouldn't affect his play if he can go.

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pz

November 14th, 2016 at 8:04 PM ^

Seems like whitewashing to me to cause other teams to continue to speculate / prepare for him.

The theory that keeping the Playoff Committee guessing a bit could be an interesting strategy by Harbaugh... particularly if seeding is at stake and O'Korn isn't a world-beater the next few games, but we still get the W's.

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stephenrjking

November 14th, 2016 at 8:17 PM ^

The playoff committee gets blamed for more ridiculous ideas than any organization not involved in politics. Speight's health has zero relevance in committee deliberations. If Michigan beats OSU and wins the B1G championship game, they go to the playoff no matter who is QB. Lose and they're not going regardless of who is hurt.

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stephenrjking

November 14th, 2016 at 9:05 PM ^

It's not going to be the difference between any position, certainly not within the playoff orbit. Again, if Michigan goes to the playoff it is because it beat #2 Ohio State on the road and, probably, beat a terrific Wisconsin team a second time. Whomever is the quarterback for those games will be judged worthy of Michigan's performance.

The idea that the committee would examine the resumes of, say, Michigan and Lousiville, and drop a Michigan team with a far better resume including at least five wins vastly superior to any Louisville accomplishment because two of those wins came with a guy who wasn't starting at the beginning of the year is absurd.

Seriously, teams are not going to be dropped for having a player get hurt before the last game of the season with big games left on the schedule. OSU lost its starting QB in the Michigan game, and still had to leap both Baylor and TCU with its backup QB to get in the playoff. The only reason an injury is going to be a serious consideration is if a team is on the borderline of a berth with a similar, blemished record to a team ahead of it and that blemish on the record was a close loss with a key player injured. Say, if Speight had been out for the entire Iowa game and then came back, they might think of the loss in a less punishing light. But that's the only circumstance and that hasn't been the case this year.

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