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 15th, 2016 at 3:15 AM ^
I love Wilson Speigght. He's my favorite player.
November 15th, 2016 at 3:16 AM ^
November 15th, 2016 at 10:08 AM ^
"For old folks, a retweet is basically an endorsement in cases like these."
What a dickish thing to say. Way to be, dude.
November 15th, 2016 at 10:56 AM ^
By trade I'm an athletic trainer and I have worked in the college setting as well as high school setting. Athletes suffer mild AC joint separations all the time and time off varies greatly...it hurts like hell oftentimes but athletes can often get back to the field quickly.
There have been studies on high school, college and NFL football players showing the rate at which AC joint separations occur and how much time is missed. On average I think it was between 5-9 total days missed of playing on average.
This can obviously vary wildly based on the severity. It can literally vary from a QB having a minor separation on the non throwing shoulder missing 2-5 days of play to a QB having this on their throwing shoulder being out for months.
At Bowling Green we had a qb fall and separate his AC joint on non throwing shoulder and he was icing and in a sling and then returned to pracrtice 48 hours later. Speight may be in much worse shape. The point is it can vary. I will say by now, almost 72 hours post injury I would assume they have a decent idea of what they are are looking at as far as his return to play.
November 15th, 2016 at 11:39 AM ^
Not out for the year but for the next 2 games according to Gregg Henson.
http://gregghenson.com/harbaugh-says-speight-not-out-for-the-year/
November 15th, 2016 at 4:43 PM ^
It seems to me there were lots of opportunities in some of the previous games to give UofM's backup QBs additional playing time beyond what they were given. For whatever reason, that didn't happen. You may say that hindsight is 20/20, but the coach making millions of dollars to coach UofM should have forseen what just happened and have had a good back-up plan in place.
November 19th, 2016 at 1:36 PM ^
that Harbaugh was trying to get Speight, a FIRST YEAR starter, as much prep time as possible for the meat of the B1G schedule. More reps = more confidence in big games.
November 15th, 2016 at 5:55 PM ^
But he basically said something to the effect: "No Speight is not 'out for the season'...I haven't heard any of the doctors diagnose it as that"
If Harbaugh wasn't so notorious for his trademark wily dodging of reporting injuries to the media, I wouldn't read into it so much, but since that's what he does, I wouldn't be surprised if Speight is effectively unavailable until bowl-time, but Harbaugh just wants teams to have to plan for it.
November 19th, 2016 at 1:47 PM ^
https://twitter.com/GeorgeSipple/status/800045346944495617
Very interesting. Carrying his bag in his left hand (injured shoulder side). No chance you would be doing that if your collarbone was broken, correct?