Another week, another Coug out for the season
Grippi reports defensive tackle Josh Luapo will have surgery on a torn ACL and won't return in 2009.
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Whats going on?
Wasn’t our improved strength and conditioning suppose to cut back on the amount of injuries this year?
Um, no amount of strength and conditioning is going to prevent your knee ligaments from exploding
by Jeff Nusser on Sep 29, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Depends on how it ruptured
If it ruptured because he was one on one and pushed backwards and to the side with his foot planted, well then being stronger would prevent you from being pushed around and having that much applied load on the knee.
In general, just because you can leg press 50 more pounds doesn’t mean that you’re less susceptible to ACL injuries, but if you are bigger and stronger than the other guy you will be the one pushing people around, decreasing your risk factor.
by johnnycougar on Sep 29, 2009 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Fair point
I guess what I was driving at was that you can’t strengthen ligaments, per se. I don’t remember the play in question.
With a lineman....
It’s usually safe to say they got rolled up on. In fact with most ACL injuries that seems to be the case. Save for a few like Willis McGahee’s knee exploding or the way Walter Thurmond III got hit.
Point being, ACL injuries are not the fault of strength coaches. Most of the time they are fluke injuries or awkward hits.
That's true
I just meant that if you are the one doing the pushing, the injury is less likely to happen.
It is just me, or does it seem like the Cougs perennially have more of these kinds of injuries than other teams in the Pac 10? Or does it just seem like it because we usually have less depth, so it seems more significant.
by johnnycougar on Sep 29, 2009 7:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Neither, I feel like
Its our team so we’re attached to our players and it feels like a huge loss every time. It seems to me, and this is without actually doing the research, that on average a team will take one or two knee injury hits a year, and I’m talking serious ones. Think back with us: Lobster last year, Tardy the year before. I’m sure there was more but those were the big ones.
Now, let’s look at this weeks opponent, Oregon. This year: Thurmond, last year: Roper (I think), year before Dixon. See, these things happen and they happen to everyone. Because we are attached and follow our team, it feels huge every time, but in reality it happens everywhere. This last week Oregon lost Thurmond and Baylor lost Griffin. Both of those were bigger than us losing a DT, in my opinion
Torn ACL
He’s done for the year. He placed third to Jeshua in the 400 hurdles and has a promising track career, too.
by Brian Floyd on Sep 29, 2009 11:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I would seem to concur with this
There have been TONS of injuries around the Pac-10 this year. It just happens that most of ours have happened during the season.
by Jeff Nusser on Sep 29, 2009 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
After thinking about it ...
It’s bad, because while Luapo didn’t have any tackles, he was precisely the kind of gap eater that has allowed our linebackers to roam free and make plays. Cutting into that depth in the tackle rotation might mean that the inside guys aren’t as fresh and strong as they’ve been in the fourth quarter. One thing our team has done well this year is have more in the tank than their opponents at the end of the game.
One thing that’s going to be huge here is getting Kooyman back. Dan Spitz has been pretty good, and he could be the kind of guy who can slide inside occasionally, especially on passing downs.
But we absolutely, positively cannot have an injury to either Wolfgramm or Turpin. That would be disastrous.
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