Mizzou Links, 8-27-10
by Bill C. on Aug 27, 2010 5:44 AM CDT
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PrintSigh. You won't find any Derrick Washington links in this post, as the one shared last night (and the resulting conversation with t&c fan below) is all we know and all we need to know at this point. Odds are rather good that this becomes a he-said-she-said situation, where both sides share their side of the story, and in the end the legal verdict is based more on who argued their side better than who is telling the truth. No matter the verdict, some will continue to believe he's lying, and some will continue to believe she's lying. All I hope for at this point is that there is some sort of reasonably legitimate proof one way or another, and that justice is served, whatever that may be.
All I can also hope is that the team is able to put this behind them and stay motivated, whether Washington is part of the team or not. Between Washington and the Munir Prince incident linked below, everybody interviewed on KOMU yesterday evening were rather visibly shaken up. How the team responds over the next couple of days is beyond important to how they perform this fall.
Scrimmage / Munir Prince Reports
- KC Star (Campus Corner): MU Defender Prince Taken Off Field on Stretcher
Prince, a 5-10 and 185-pound senior from DeSmet High School in St. Louis who sat out the 2008 season after transferring to Mizzou from Notre Dame, was injured blocking on a punt return.
The returner, Jasper Simmons, had reversed field and Prince was caught in a blindside situation, knocked off his feet by the block of Marcus Malbrough, a 6-5 and 250 pound defensive end playing on the punt return unit.
At first, with Prince being attended to near the west sideline, practice continued. But as the stretcher was called for, every player and coach came over to join Pinkel, who stood over his injured player as medical personnel attended to Prince.
- The Trib (Dave Matter): Somber scrimmage for Tigers
At 6:10 p.m., Pinkel relayed from the hosptial to team spokesman Chad Moller that Prince has feeling in all of his limbs and that the medical team is still treating and assessing the injury.
"That’s one of our brothers out there, man," tailback Kendial Lawrence said. "We can only keep him in our prayers and hope for the best for him. … He was moving. He’s a strong player. He’ll make it through."
- PowerMizzou: Prince injury throws shadow over final scrimmage
- Post-Dispatch: Mizzou's Prince resting comfortably in intensive care after injury
Team physician Dr. Pat Smith said Prince had gone through a battery of tests and was doing well after being diagnosed with transient quadriplegia, a temporary loss of sensation in the upper and lower extremities.
"Munir's neurological status is improving and will continue to be monitored closely over several days," Smith said. "We believe at this time that his prognosis is favorable."
- MUtigers.com: Mizzou Football Scrimmage Statistics
Other Mizzou Football Links
- The Trib: Has it been 10 years? Pinkel survives, thrives (I was really looking forward to sharing this link and discussing it before the D-Wash news came down. Still, a really good look at a flawed-but-strong coach.)
On the field, you know what you’re going to get. You may not understand the lack of a short-yardage offense — and you may have a point — but if you’re out of junior high school, you remember when the Tigers had a hell of a lot more problems than the lack of a fullback on third-and-1.
He will find and develop good quarterbacks, and that is half the battle. His teams rarely will beat themselves with penalties or turnovers. He will luck into great kickers. His defenses will break your heart. Has he mentioned there was only one cornerback on scholarship when he arrived? Has he mentioned Don James? He will refer to Chase Daniel as Chase Daniels. He won’t beat Oklahoma or Texas. He will beat eight other teams on the schedule in a pretty good year. He will get his team to No. 1 in the nation in a great year.
This should be one of the pretty good years.
Pinkel is 58 years old. He is not a perfect coach, but he might be the perfect coach for Missouri. If he had a more meteoric rise, someone with national championships in the trophy case would have made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Instead, he had a few flirtations, most notably with Washington, but never seriously considered leaving.
- The Trib: Aldon Smith is left holding the bag ... often
- The Trib: Offensive linemen learn to live on the edge
- The Trib: Candidates campaign to be go-to receiver
- The Trib: Special teams snapper hurt
- PowerMizzou: Sliding protection
- KC Star (Campus Corner): Andrew Jones: The Rest of the Story
- PowerMizzou: Freshman Q&A: Kony Ealy
- Big12Sports.com: Skywriters Tour Visits Missouri
Big 12 (and Illinois) Links
- The Trib: It's the end of the Big 12 as we know it
- Houston Chronicle: Six freshmen to watch in Big 12 football
- Dr. Saturday: Final takes: Big 12 leaves its fate to the young guns
- Illinois
College Football Talk: Achilles tear ends season for starting Illini DB - Colorado
Boulder Daily Camera: Hawk floats extension idea
Dr. Saturday: Dan Hawkins' answer to Colorado's woes: Extend Dan Hawkins' contract - Kansas
Topeka Capital-Journal: Jayhawks tough to figure - Kansas State
Topeka Capital-Journal: Cats need bowl bid - Oklahoma
SI.com (Andy Staples): Landry Jones, Oklahoma Sooners aim to rebound from hard-luck 2009 - Texas
Houston Chronicle: Texas freshmen don't act like kids, aim for starting spots
Other Mizzou Links
- Mizzou Volleyball
The Missourian: Missouri volleyball eager to start season
The Trib: Tigers' other freshman
MUtigers.com: Tiger Invitational Live Blog - Day One (starts tonight)
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Thats a great article
about Gary Pinkel, it illustrates exactly how I think I, and probably many people, view him. Some questions though; what are the odds that he does stay another 5 years? That puts him at 63 and probably fairly tired of the effort of maintaining an out of the way program’s prominence. Do we think they promote from within or bring a coach from the outside? I’m really interested in the prospects of the future even tho it may be early.
In all I think Pinkel’s model of consistency has shown to be fairly resilient. In a league with powerhouses like the Big 12(-2), keeping your head down and powering through, looking for those slight chances to come out on top, seems to be the surest way to build a program like ours. I recently read a book called Soccernomics and in it the authors relate the story of the futbol club Lyon in France which achieved success with a similar consistent model of running a (professional) athletics program. This gives me confidence in our own future.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
When Coach Pinkel's time is done with the Tigers
I kind of hope that Mizzou would try to get Dave Christenson.
really putting the cart before the horse
but I’d actually hoped that Chase would come back (after a few more years in the pro circuit) and start coaching here.
Finds MvP RoC to be a stellar individual
by Ausgiano on Aug 27, 2010 10:21 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'd def be up for that
Especially since I keep tabs on Wyoming football since my gf went to school there. If he can do anything with that program he could do well to return to Mizzou’s program.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
By the way...
…no Wisdom of the Crowds today. Didn’t really feel like it, and I doubt anybody else cares to make predictions at this exact moment anyway.
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by Bill C. on Aug 27, 2010 8:35 AM CDT reply actions 2 recs
On Munir:
It’s shaking enough seeing the phrase “neurological status” get used in reports. I can only imagine having been at practice for the injury.
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One more thought on Washington, then I'm done:
If you’re still trying to pay attention to this story as it relates to the football team (a tenuous strategy at best), then the best resolution you can hope for is a quick one.
Either Washington is simply declared out for the year (and, presumably, out period) and you move ahead with the Kendial Lawrence era; or, this is cleared up and Washington returns to the team.
Either way, the best resolution for the program (again: this is not the most important thing right now) is for this to be over quickly, one way or another.
"Don’t want to spend my night waiting in line unless it’s for more beer."
--EssBee, on LoneStarBall, Jan. 21, 2010
by ghtd36 on Aug 27, 2010 8:43 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs
thought all the Trib articles were outstanding
Loved some of the sidebar items in the Smith piece, especially his thought that Tebow and Brady ‘need to be sacked more’. Matter and Wallentik have to be one of the best one-two punches out there.
I would love to see Dave Yost grow into being the clear GP successor- sort of remarkable how much GP focuses on continuity. He seems to always be thinking about years down the road, not just the immediate future.
On DWash, if he did it, obviously he needs to go, and will have to live with screwing up both his and another person’s life. But if it is a bogus allegation, he is getting smeared unfairly, too. I find it a bit suspicious that 1. the party didn’t show up to the hearing 2. no arrest, immediate or otherwise 3. no charges, several months after the incident. Could be that it did happen, and the evidence is just not enough to do anything, which is worse.
Worried about the nebulous nature of the whole thing- not sure how it gets resolved other than charges being filed. Would the prosecuter even say if they decided to not file charges, or just leave it floating out there, in case something else came to light later?
All due caveats about who-in-heck-knows-what-really-happened… but if it was bad, victims showing up isn’t necessarily very diagnostic of anything – assaults of the alleged variety are pretty traumatic, and can leave all kinds of embarrassment , shame, emotional nastiness to cope with.
It’s just a near impossible to read situation, and one way or the other an all-around crappy deal.
It's time to bond, or break . . .
. . . for the Tigers.
Having covered a team or two – both high school and college – in 30+ years of journalism, I would like to offer some words of encouragement to Tiger fans. I have seen similar situations just a few times when teams have been handed more than one potential tragedy – and hopefully neither DWash or Munir’s situations end up being such – and the end result is almost never static: either the team falls apart and self-destructs, or it comes together, bonding into something it might not otherwise have been.
The breaking occurs when team members are selfish and feel sorry for themselves – having hoped to attain personal glory on a successful team, and then seeing that possibility diminish. The bonding occurs when team members become unselfish, with their thoughts more on helping and encouraging each other and their fallen teammate.
A prime factor in determining which way the team goes is the coaching staff and, quite frankly, I can’t think of a better head coach to have in this situation than Gary Pinkel. The man is fiercely loyal to his players, and one who is stable in his own personna, freeing him to minister to his players instead of to himself. Joe Walljasper’s article was perfectly placed this morning to remind us that there is someone in charge of this team who can pull them together; honoring their teammates, their school, and themselves by using the Ebner, Washington and Prince issues to bond them into a true team able to achieve possibly even more than they might have otherwise.
Go Mizzou! And, my thoughts and prayers are with each of the young men who still have issues to face off the field – may they each return to the team stronger men than before.
by countrycal on Aug 27, 2010 9:51 AM CDT reply actions 9 recs
Well said.
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I don't have much time this morning, but I thought I could help go through some info on TQ.
Dr. A, can answer more questions of this than I pertaining to outcome, timetable ect, but I thought I could get some information up, so people can get an idea of what might be going on. Hopefully calm some nerves as well. Just knowledge of something can help decrease the anxiety of the information. Considering this is a young kid and it involves the spine/neurons, there’s plenty of anxiety.
Transient quadriplegia is less common than other cervical spinal cord injuries (cervical = upper part of your spine including neck), but more dangerous, and has an incidence of approximately 1.3 per 10,000 athletes.
Transient quadriplegia is usually caused by a hyperextension injury to the neck, which may also involve axial loading of the neck. This condition often occurs because there is some degree of cervical spinal stenosis or disc protrusion, which decreases the available space for the spinal cord within the spinal canal.
Cervical spinal stenosis is a birth defect wherein the vertebrae of the cervical spinal cord area are narrowed around the spinal canal. Thus people that have this are at an increased risk of getting TQ obviously due to a higher chance of them injuring the cervical spinal cord.
Notice above (lower diagram) that the spinal canal is compacted, due to the larger vertebral body. This is a condition one is born with, but from what I can find (quickly) this is not hereditary. Or at least there doesn’t seem to be a huge correlation with some one having this, and it being passed on.
In TQ there is complete return of motor function and sensation and full, pain-free range of motion of the spine.
After the first episode, there is a 40% chance of a second. This may also be due to the stenosis problem within that population. As you would suspect if some one doesn’t have as much free range of motion, they’re at a higher risk for getting TQ.
As long as there is no abnormal motion between the vertebrae or spinal cord compression, athletes are allowed to return to sporting activities without increased risk of permanent nerve injury.
I am hopeful that Prince should be fine. That is, he’ll regain all movement/sensations and have no pain for the rest of a very long life.
Dr. Ausgiano schools me in the classroom and on the field of battle
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Aug 27, 2010 12:15 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
What other site . . .
. . . has doctors and lawyers who can step in and help us understand the intricacies of medical and legal problems?
Thanks MVPRofC, that helps give me hope that Munir has a good chance of getting better and back to the field; and thanks to T&C Fan for her legal insights to DWash’s situation.
Kudos to you both!
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