Harbaugh: Speight NOT out for the season (UPDATE 7:51pm)
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.
November 14th, 2016 at 7:26 PM ^
November 14th, 2016 at 8:08 PM ^
Probably why ESPN and others reported it as "likely out for this Saturday."
November 14th, 2016 at 9:23 PM ^
I'm anti-semantics.
November 15th, 2016 at 4:19 AM ^
Jerry! You're an anti-dentite!
November 14th, 2016 at 7:39 PM ^
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November 14th, 2016 at 7:22 PM ^
Apparently Harbaugh inserted steel into Speight's collarbone
November 14th, 2016 at 7:26 PM ^
Mass milk infusions. It makes a body grow.
November 14th, 2016 at 7:39 PM ^
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November 14th, 2016 at 8:08 PM ^
November 14th, 2016 at 8:08 PM ^
Just wrap some bacon on it, and you'll be good to go.
November 15th, 2016 at 5:50 AM ^
November 14th, 2016 at 7:22 PM ^
It seems either way that I will be watching the game on Saturday. My status never changes.
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.
November 14th, 2016 at 7:27 PM ^
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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.
November 14th, 2016 at 7:30 PM ^
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November 14th, 2016 at 9:55 PM ^
But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
November 14th, 2016 at 7:44 PM ^
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November 14th, 2016 at 8:15 PM ^
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November 14th, 2016 at 9:44 PM ^
yes I knnow they research injury history at the draft but the less said the better, keep it on the down low for the young man. Don't want the rep out there as being injury prone if you're a QB coming out in a year or two.
November 14th, 2016 at 7:30 PM ^
I just got an alert on this from The Score. You guys are fast.
November 14th, 2016 at 7:31 PM ^
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November 14th, 2016 at 8:19 PM ^
And Angus have split the band? Small wonder Speight is feeling down. For those about to rock, we salute you. Long live AC DC.
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?
November 14th, 2016 at 7:34 PM ^
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November 14th, 2016 at 11:33 PM ^
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.
November 15th, 2016 at 5:07 AM ^
What is far more annoying is the people complaining about WD.
November 14th, 2016 at 7:43 PM ^
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November 14th, 2016 at 8:32 PM ^
But if I retweet that giant post up there? Where is that button on my blackberry? Can I do that?
November 14th, 2016 at 10:35 PM ^
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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.
November 14th, 2016 at 8:02 PM ^
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.
November 14th, 2016 at 8:17 PM ^
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November 14th, 2016 at 8:48 PM ^
Agree conceptually... but if it is the difference between 4 and 3 seeds for some crazy reason, I'd rather have Harbaugh putting his thumb on the scale to get an advantage any way he can, no?
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.
November 14th, 2016 at 11:04 PM ^
Sorry, you'd think I'd be over it by now.