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Posted: 8/29/2023 7:23 AM

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He wasn't at full strength, took a hard fall onto his knee while ducking a sack. Precautions. The ones they didn't take BEFORE the game.

Let's just hope Navarro is ready to go for LIU.

The doctors cleared Rourke to play. If he wasn't ready to go or had any risk of further injuring his knee, they wouldn't have started him.

Otherwise, that would be incompetent and reckless.

Once you get the full go ahead, you can't play afraid. Kurtis wanted to go back in. We don't know the reasons why he wasn't allowed to return. It would've been nice to have some clarity.

The fact Albin is already saying Kurtis is on track to play this weekend against LIU alludes to the point this wasn't very serious and that they might've played this safer than what they would've had he not torn his ACL last year.

Absolutely embarrassing in how Timmy treated Rourke in this game. None of it makes sense. None of it. Glad we saved Rourke for Long Island. Good grief Timmy.

I'm 100 percent in agreement with this. As I said earlier in this thread, this is quite baffling. I have no idea what's going on.

He's obviously from the Frank school of never divulging injury information for better or worse, However, just because he didn't say what the concern was doesn't mean the concern wasn't legitimate.

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Posted: 8/29/2023 9:05 AM

This thread reminds me of why I see lots of young kids (and their parents) quitting on football. Shake off the "cob webs" impacting your brain and/or rub some dirt on that knee or ankle or shoulder and get back out there kid.... Winning this game > everything else. And that coach is a total disaster for being cautious with an injured player and needs to be fired... I want a deep analysis/interview about that kid's injury regardless of what that kid and his family want to divulge... We were not entertained!!!!!

Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

Last Edited: 8/29/2023 9:07:33 AM by Ohio69

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Posted: 8/29/2023 12:18 PM

Today's NYT has a front page story on the 25-year-old football-playing son of Maryland's head coach. The young man was found to have CTE.

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Posted: 8/29/2023 1:06 PM

I am convinced I have CTE simply from spending my freshman year in Read Hall.

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Posted: 8/29/2023 2:36 PM

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I don’t think it’s wise to generalize what a decent portion of our posters are thinking. Many of us are perfectly fine with Tim Albin being cautious with Kurtis Rourke. What we’re not okay with is him struggling to communicate effectively about the situation that unfolded. If he simply said, “we were concerned about Kurtis following the sack and thought it was best for him to sit the remainder of the night,” none of us would’ve been upset with his decision.

This is Public Relations 101. Albin is a poor communicator with the media. He’s a nice person and good coach but he botched his messaging.

Hell, if Albin didn’t say “he wasn’t concerned” and that “Rourke was mad about not going back in,” we wouldn’t even be having this conversation right now. His comments made it appear as though it was possible for Rourke to return and they denied him the opportunity, regardless of if that’s factual or not. If we were a Big 10 program, this would be a media circus right now.

Last Edited: 8/29/2023 3:45:08 PM by Clown Ohio Fan

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Posted: 8/29/2023 3:13 PM

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. . .IF we were a Big 10 program, this would be a media circus right now.

If this happened up the road in Cowtown, the head coach would be receiving death threats because they lost their first game of the season and would not be ranked in the top five next week.

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