McCummings Injured?

[bmayuc]

Gee, did your mommy forget to put your snack in your lunch box? Fat, out of shape, sudden movements not previously done in any type of volume - nah, couldn't have had anything to do with it.

I play pickup basketball every week with a bunch of fat, really out of shape folks way older than McCummings. I have yet to see the inevitable(according to you) popped achilles. The fact is that these things are tragically random. Ascribing a little gained weight or any one particular factor is ridiculous.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

I play pickup basketball every week with a bunch of fat, really out of shape folks way older than McCummings. I have yet to see the inevitable(according to you) popped achilles. The fact is that these things are tragically random. Ascribing a little gained weight or any one particular factor is ridiculous.

Jesus. We have weekend warrior pickup basketball players chiming in as subject matter experts.

Being overweight increases your risk of tearing your Achilles. So say actual doctors. Is it why SM tore his? Who knows?

 

[bmayuc]

Jesus. We have weekend warrior pickup basketball players chiming in as subject matter experts.

Being overweight increases your risk of tearing your Achilles. So say actual doctors. Is it why SM tore his? Who knows?

My point was not that I know definitively that it DIDN'T contribute. My point is that saying that there is a direct link in one particular case as Husky68 did is meaningless and pointless and many other "less's"

 

[UConnDan97]

This thread needs to end. Seriously.

A UConn student-athlete got hurt. Normally, the appropriate response is to wish the young man (or woman) a speedy recovery, and to get on with your life. To blame the young man for getting injured, as if he actually desired to get injured, is at best classless and at worst disgusting.

Let's get back to talking about UConn, please...

 

[Srqhusky]

This whole thing is mind boggling. If he showed up that out of shape (30 lbs. or so) he should not have been allowed to participate in football drills. Ride the bike or jog around the field.

McCummings is the ultimate one to blame, but add this to the pile of stuff that I believe the staff mishandled.?

The staff handled it brilliantly from not bad mouthing him in public to getting him to be conditioned and dangling the carrot in from of him that he would be playing as a wr. What was mishandled

 

[Husky68]

I play pickup basketball every week with a bunch of fat, really out of shape folks way older than McCummings. I have yet to see the inevitable(according to you) popped achilles. The fact is that these things are tragically random. Ascribing a little gained weight or any one particular factor is ridiculous.

Interesting how you argue points made up by you. "inevitable(according to you)". ok reading challenged person - quote where in my posts that statement was made. I would expect you and the bunch of fat guys that play pickup ball have not seen a "sudden movement" in quite some time.

 

[CTMike]

Good article with comments from McCummings :

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-football/hc-uconn-football-0808-20130807,0,6640940.story

 

[sportsart]

Good article with comments from McCummings :

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-football/hc-uconn-football-0808-20130807,0,6640940.story

Good read and a stand up guy.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Good read and a stand up guy.

No qualms from me.

He's a kid who realizes he didn't take full advantage of the opportunity when he had it but wants to move on and grow from it. He's not blaming anyone else or looking for excuses. Good enough for me. Still has his whole life in front of him.

 

[metsfan2323]

Refreshing to see someone (as Parcells would say) who points the thumb and not the finger.

 

[pj]

Good kid.

Sometimes it would be nice if you could give extra years of eligibility to kids who are finding their way. I wonder if the best position on the field for McCummings might be center. He's 6'3" and looking at his frame with a few years of dedicated weight training he could get up to a lean 280. He would be very mobile for an o-lineman and with his dexterity with the ball he could probably snap and do other things well. But I don't think he has enough time left to learn a major position switch like that.