NCAA Week 12 Running Thread

But they haven't won it in a year when there was clearly one truly great player, which McFadden is.

 

Should Felix Jones come in second if McFadden wins? Averages 4.2 yard MORE per carry than McFadden, has one less touchdown and is over a 1000 yards as well. McFadden is great but I don't see Dixon or Tebow's backup coming into the game and putting up comparable numbers.

 

He speaks the truth.

Even if Dixon doesn't turn his knee the wrong way, it was still going to be close between him and McFadden.

Now.....not so much.

 

If I got singed I'd jump ship, too. After I demanded some burn cream. ;D

 

Twisted knee my arse. Having done it myself without contact, it looks like a torn ACL to me. I have no medical evidence at all to back my hypothesis, but it seems you don't have a crying QB, a crying trainer and a dad brought down to the sidelines for a simple twisted knee.
Makes me wonder if he suffered a partial ACL tear against Arizona State that was hushed up, and he and the staff decided to take the chance. If Dixon heard a pop, he probably realized what happened. As for his walking around, people can do that for awhile on a torn ACL (I was off crutches while awaiting surgery, and Brad Faxon played practically the whole '05 PGA Tour season on one, only going in for surgery after he won at Hartford).

 

Same thing I told my wife last night. A deep knee bruise, a sprain or a something comparable makes it a lot harder to walk on than a torn ACL. When he got up and started walking, I knew he was done for a while.

 

I remember thinking Terrell Davis would be fine after wrecking his knee against the Jets. After all, he didn't look to be in that much pain walking off the field.

Afterward, I remember reading that a lack of pain is nearly always a BAD sign.

 

My only happy ACL/Broncos note:

Intact ACLs in John Elway's knees throughout his pro career: One

 

Worst knee I have ever seen.

Just look at where his kneecap is on his left leg.

 

That wasn't the same crew at Arizona. Might have a few members, but the crew chief from the Oklahoma game retired after the season and was promoted to Pac-10 Supervisor of Officials. (Go figure).

Two members of the Oklahoma-Oregon crew worked the Nov. 10 Washington-Oregon State game that resulted in the one-game suspension of the replay crew and the on-field crew being banned from any postseason games for blowing a crucial call in the final minutes.

After that game, the Supervisor of Replay Offials (the previous Supervisor of Officials) basically told Oregon State to "fxxx off" for complaining about the original mild penalties handed out to the officials by te league office (they were subsequently made much harsher).

On replay, they got every call right on Thursday, which is the reason for replay, no? even if it slows the game down. (You can't review the facemask they missed). And in their defense, those were some bang-bang plays.

 

Anybody know if Oregon has AFLAC? [/DUCKing]

 

A defensive end on the team I cover tore his ACL in the third week this year. He ran a mile the day before his surgery (five days after the injury). He and the trainers have had a goal to get him back by next week's game, and so far it's looking attainable.

I never saw him walk with a limp, but he also didn't injure anything else in the knee. We'll see if he actually plays.