Wait, Aaron Douglas Had Foot Surgery?
by Todd on Apr 20, 2011 9:00 AM CDT
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PrintA clue has finally emerged in the mystery over the inability of Aaron Douglas, the former Freshman All-American JUCO transfer that we all expected to waltz in and take over at LT, to crack the starting offensive line. Courtesy his Twitter account:
He goes on to say that the surgery was to remove bone spurs, and that recovery time is about 6-8 weeks. That certainly goes a long way towards explaining why Douglas never sniffed the starting offensive line, instead yielding to Alfred McCullough and Barrett Jones the whole spring. Depending on his recovery time and ability to participate in summer conditioning, Douglas still has a shot at showing why we took a risk on him in the first place.
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OTS, are these issues (J. Williams knee, 80Fresh's foot, KK's hip/heat issues) things we know about and take risks on or are these suprises?
Does the staff conduct a thorough medical eval prior to signing or can they?
"It's not the size of the cat in the fight, it's size of the fight in the cat"
"Pep talks... only work when they touch that ember of truth learned the hardest possible way on the field.-Kleph
That's at least five new players coming in with previous injury or medical issues.
Washington, Williams, Kelly, Pagan, and now Douglas have all had surgery.
it's all good...
we’ve got an igor working on the training staff.
/pratchett
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Looks like Coach Saban hasn't given up on Douglas:
“Aaron Douglas actually played probably the best he’s played all spring,” Saban said. “Things are starting to come into place for him, probably a little simpler plan easier for him to execute. He did a much better job fundamentally.”
Maybe the bone spurs where a problem. At least he competed with that nagging problem. And bone spurs hurt.
On the bright side,
being laid up for 6-8 weeks won’t hurt his need to put on some weight.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
Yeah, put some flab on that boy
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
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