McManus career ends early....

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he will not return from his shoulder injury.

Matt Rhodes moves to RG and Voss/Dunmon will split time at LG.
 
Terrible news.

I've asked this before and didn't get any answers, but don't we have an unsually high number of OL with shoulder injuries? I don't just mean this year, but for a while. Maybe I only notice ours, but it seems like we have a couple a year.
 
ncjacket said:
Terrible news.

I've asked this before and didn't get any answers, but don't we have an unsually high number of OL with shoulder injuries? I don't just mean this year, but for a while. Maybe I only notice ours, but it seems like we have a couple a year.
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It is mostly just Lonowski over and over again. That poor kid has had trouble with both shoulders off and on since he got here. However, we have had more than usual it seems.
 
McManus, Jeremy Phillips, was AJ shoulder or elbow?. It just seems like it's been a regular thing.
 
Could it be because we generally take smaller guys and build them up more? Seems like many programs get the guys that are already 300+ pounds and just convert some fat into muscle, where as we get the 250lb guys and try to get them up to 300?
 
All the more reason we should be recruiting OL in higher numbers than previously. I can understand somewhat when our overall numbers were limited but there is no excuse now that we are up to afull compliment of scholarships. We need to bring in 4-5 every year minimum.
 
ncjacket said:
Terrible news.

I've asked this before and didn't get any answers, but don't we have an unsually high number of OL with shoulder injuries? I don't just mean this year, but for a while. Maybe I only notice ours, but it seems like we have a couple a year.
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I had lunch with a Bulldog and he told me that the same thing had plagued UGA. He thinks it is because young kids are placed on serious weight-lifting regimens to build up their bodies quickly and then get pounded day after day before their bodies mature enough to take the beating. If that is the actual case, it could make sense to get linemen that are already "grown" and then redshirt them, play them sparingly as R-Freshmen and let them mature before they have to endure 48+ quarters each year.

On the other hand, McManus is a senior so his injury would not support the above theory.
 
Except that he evidently had a shoulder injury in high school that made Auburn back off. I don't know if it was related to his current problem, but could be.
 
ncjacket said:
McManus, Jeremy Phillips, was AJ shoulder or elbow?. It just seems like it's been a regular thing.
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I thought you meant recently...Jeremy Phillips left the team in 2002. Jeremy had problems as soon as he stepped foot on campus...as did Lonowski.

there have been a lot of shoulder injuries across college and pro football this year it seems.
 
cyclejacket said:
All the more reason we should be recruiting OL in higher numbers than previously. I can understand somewhat when our overall numbers were limited but there is no excuse now that we are up to afull compliment of scholarships. We need to bring in 4-5 every year minimum.
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If you bring in 4-5 each year "minimum"...and lose one each year to attrition...that means you are trying to entice some high school kid to come in so they can be 4th on the depth chart??...best case??

I would go with 3-4 per year. You will always have DT's that move over every other year as well. imho...you need to always have 13-15 OL's on scholarship. We had 14 on scholarship prior to McManus having to stop playing football.
 
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