🏈 Mark Ingram Out For San Jose Game

[bama4life]

Did you see Scarbo's article on this today?
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/09/scarbinsky_dont_tell_me_mark_i.html

Sounds like we should just cancel the season. We will miss Mark for sure, he is an amazing player. But obviously, Scarbo must have been in the can while Trent Richardson had the ball last year.

This is the part I love the best:
"It's also important to remember that Alabama needed both Ingram and Richardson to beat Texas - minus the injured Colt McCoy - in the BCS Championship Game."

As if the part in bold is an * that will forever tarnish the legitimacy of that win. Does he ever write an article where he talks about that game without adding "Minus Colt McCoy"? Maybe he should write some articles about Bama's 04 games and add "minus the injured Brodie Croyle" to every one we lost. Or maybe when he talks about the Texas win over Oklahoma last year he can add "minus the injured Sam Bradford" to it. Sorry for the rant, im just so sick of hearing that.

If Alabama didn't have the following:

• Mark Ingram
• Trent Richardson
• Nick Saban
• Defense
• Thousands of fans
• Undefeated season. Sorry Tennessee and Auburn. Moral victories won't cut it
• Colt at full health and not "speared" by Dareus

Then Texas would have won the game....

 

[Duder]

So what actually happened to Ingram's knee? Has anyone said what the injury was? I keep hearing week-to-week which could mean more than just SJSU--not that I would be terribly worried about PSU without Ingram but it adds to the build-up I suppose.

 

[TerryP]

No worries for 3 reasons...

1- Minor injury/minor surgery. Nobody will work harder at rehabbing it than Mark. He'll be back soon.

2- If he misses 2 or 3 games, in the end, it shouldn't make much of a difference on the scoreboard, but he will have fresher legs later on in the season during the meat of the schedule.

3- Literally, #3.

Bran...that's a great post!

 

[RollTideinGA]

So what actually happened to Ingram's knee? Has anyone said what the injury was? I keep hearing week-to-week which could mean more than just SJSU--not that I would be terribly worried about PSU without Ingram but it adds to the build-up I suppose.

I just had lunch with my dad and I love how every Bama fan seems to have an inside source. He has a buddy that knows a guy who's daughter works for the training staff and they said they put a pin in his knee. WHAT? That is so far off from anything else I've heard.

I always enjoy the "inside" information. Geez.

Anyway all we REALLY know is what they released. Anything else anyone else is saying should be taken with a grain of salt.

 

[AlabamaAubKiller]

I'm not worried about Mark right now. He'll be fine he's in good hands and as said no one will work harder at getting back 100% then he will.

I guess the bigger question for me is....Is Eddie ready to go. Can he step up and do what Coach needs him to do? And that's be just as good as Mark & Trent. Hopefully Eddie won't be putting the ball on the ground the 1st time he's out there.

 

[Duder]

I just had lunch with my dad and I love how every Bama fan seems to have an inside source. He has a buddy that knows a guy who's daughter works for the training staff and they said they put a pin in his knee. WHAT? That is so far off from anything else I've heard.

I always enjoy the "inside" information. Geez.

Anyway all we REALLY know is what they released. Anything else anyone else is saying should be taken with a grain of salt.

Yeah if it were a pin in the knee he wouldn't be back for quite some time.

My guess (just that, a guess) is cartillage damage. Based on Saban's wording--we wanted to handle it now so it didn't cause problems later in the season specifically, it leads me towards thinking cartillage damage. Cartillage tears are fixed with a scope and require relatively little rehab time (Phillip Rivers is a perfect example). It would also be something he could have played on if he'd wanted to push it.

The only other thought I had is perhaps he had a dislocated (sublexed for the medically inclined) knee cap. Surgery to repair the most common cause of that is a scope, he could've continued playing on it but the recovery time is a bit longer than "a week or two" or "week to week". I've had it done and was on crutches for about a week and a half, in therapy for four. Mark Sanchez had this done after his initial injury popped up at USC. It is feasible but I still think cartillage.

If I am right about cartillage rehab can get fairly aggressive pretty quickly. There is not a stability issue so it would just be whatever Mark could tolerate and how the swelling comes down.

 

[bama29fan]

I'm not worried about Mark right now. He'll be fine he's in good hands and as said no one will work harder at getting back 100% then he will.

I guess the bigger question for me is....Is Eddie ready to go. Can he step up and do what Coach needs him to do? And that's be just as good as Mark & Trent. Hopefully Eddie won't be putting the ball on the ground the 1st time he's out there.

Thast my biggest concern not having ingram in there...

i think trent and eddie can produce with their legs just fine...its gonna be the pass protection, fumbles, mental mistakes that has me worried.

 

[bamafan4ever]

Yeah if it were a pin in the knee he wouldn't be back for quite some time.

My guess (just that, a guess) is cartillage damage. Based on Saban's wording--we wanted to handle it now so it didn't cause problems later in the season specifically, it leads me towards thinking cartillage damage. Cartillage tears are fixed with a scope and require relatively little rehab time (Phillip Rivers is a perfect example). It would also be something he could have played on if he'd wanted to push it.

The only other thought I had is perhaps he had a dislocated (sublexed for the medically inclined) knee cap. Surgery to repair the most common cause of that is a scope, he could've continued playing on it but the recovery time is a bit longer than "a week or two" or "week to week". I've had it done and was on crutches for about a week and a half, in therapy for four. Mark Sanchez had this done after his initial injury popped up at USC. It is feasible but I still think cartillage.

If I am right about cartillage rehab can get fairly aggressive pretty quickly. There is not a stability issue so it would just be whatever Mark could tolerate and how the swelling comes down.

Cartilage tear makes sense.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Yes, it was apparently a meniscus tear... similar to what Freddie Roach suffered (and had repaired) in fall camp a few years ago. Freddie's occurred near the beginning of camp, but he didn't miss any game action. I would bet we don't see Ingram suit up until the Arky game, but if Duke was an SEC game, I'm betting he'd be back then.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Yes, it was apparently a meniscus tear... similar to what Freddie Roach suffered (and had repaired) in fall camp a few years ago. Freddie's occurred near the beginning of camp, but he didn't miss any game action. I would bet we don't see Ingram suit up until the Arky game, but if Duke was an SEC game, I'm betting he'd be back then.

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