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Waymon is out for the year

dkfrog

Active Member
Yes, but when it matters HCGP has WJ on the field. In addition WJ has looked better than anyone on game day.

Okay.

Devils advocate here...but...how many blitzes have we seen so far this year? how many new sets have we seen this year? how much vanilla defense and offense have we seen this year?

Maybe GP is not showing Tucker for a reason?
 

matmoo123

Full Member
Injury:

Waymon James – Starting RB (if rumors are true)
Travoskey Garrett – Probable starting CB
Stephen Bryant – Starting TE/FB
Ross Forrest - Starting DE
Danny Heiss - Backup LB
Blake Roberts – Backup DE
Ethan Grant - Backup RB
Greg Burks – Backup LB

Drug Bust:

Tanner Brock – Starting LB
Devin Johnson – Starting safety
DJ Yendry – Starting DT
Ty Horn – Backup OT

Grades/Unspecified reasons:

Ed Wesley – Starting RB
James Dunbar – Starting OT
Deryck Gildon – Brock’s replacement, starting LB
Travaris Battle – Potential starting CB
Carter Wall - Backup OL
Nykerion Wellington – Backup OT
James Bailey – Backup safety

Justin Isadore - LBer
Dwight Smith - RB
Austin Aune - QB

That has to have freed up about a dozen scholarships.

The ONLY bright spot to this whole episode: Somewhere out there, Aggie Angst is sharing this information, IN BOLD, in painful detail, to dozens of fan boards to people who could care less. It brings a smile to my face to think of it.
 

Clayton Bigsby

Active Member
The sky just keeps falling! I bet the stadium won't even be ready for the first home game!!!!!!!!

Why don't we just let Casey play RB? Boykin is a better QB anyway.
 
There is nothing to lol about as WJ was the go to guy on the ground and when you needed a tough yard he was the guy. The next guy up as HCGP says is a shadow of WJ. No team ever has lost the starters/depth we have due to drugs, injury, personal/academic issues and gone on to have a good season. As great as HCGP is he is not god, he can't salvage this train wreck no one could. People need to stop drinking the purple coolaid and start looking at the facts. We are going to be average at best this year, just to many player losses to hope for anything better.

With as powerful as our offense is, we will be able to come up with new schemes and possibly improve our offense. Time to stop playing so conservatively. This is the Big 12. You win by scoring quick.
 
Okay.

Devils advocate here...but...how many blitzes have we seen so far this year? how many new sets have we seen this year? how much vanilla defense and offense have we seen this year?

Maybe GP is not showing Tucker for a reason?

Tucker is a fine player and could be a feature back on many other teams. That said HCGP is not saving him for when the schedule heats up. WJ is a special player while Tucker is a good back, there is a big difference. At the end of day the WJ loss is going to be the straw that breaks the camels back. No team could emotionally, physically, or strategically manage the player losses we have had upon our entry to big 12. A loss to Virginia would not be a shock given the circumstances.
 

DickBumpastache

Active Member
Permaban for Joe Schad, Stefan and anyone who posts links to articles. How dare they engage in rumor-spreading. GP said Waymon was a game-time decision! Unless TCU posts Waymon's MRI on the front page of the school Web site and GP performs the surgery himself it is still a RUMOR!!!!
 

Goo

Active Member
Permaban for Joe Schad, Stefan and anyone who posts links to articles. How dare they engage in rumor-spreading. GP said Waymon was a game-time decision! Unless TCU posts Waymon's MRI on the front page of the school Web site and GP performs the surgery himself it is still a RUMOR!!!!

I thought that too. The article says "out for season" and "Gary Patterson said, game-time decision"
Odd to put both in same article.
Goo is still optimistic that Way-J isn't out for season.
 

Frogs On A Plane

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I thought that too. The article says "out for season" and "Gary Patterson said, game-time decision"
Odd to put both in same article.
Goo is still optimistic that Way-J isn't out for season.

Yeah.. I think he is done...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- TCU leading rusher Waymon James will miss the rest of the season for the 17th-ranked Horned Frogs because of a knee injury.
School spokesman Mark Cohen said Wednesday that James has a season-ending injury.
James, who appeared to get hurt in the fourth quarter of Saturday's win in Kansas, was averaging 9.9 yards on his 17 carries. He had 168 yards and a touchdown for TCU (2-0).
When asked Tuesday, coach Gary Patterson said James would be a game-time decision for Saturday's home game against Virginia. He didn't elaborate then.
With James and Matthew Tucker, TCU came into this season as one of only five FBS schools returning a pair of 700-yard rushers.
Tucker has 19 carries for 100 yards and a score, the 27th of his career.
 

tcumaniac

Full Member
Will Rick Settle work? Left the team to focus on academics.

Rick is one of the smartest kids in the entire Neeley School of Business. He was offered an extremely prestigious internship this summer that would have been stupid not to turn down. So not necessarily for "academics." More like "for his career." The guys a stud... he's gonna be making big time money.
 

f_399

Active Member
do athletes wear this to prevent acl injury or to protect it from another?

donjoy-armor-fullforce-acl-knee-brace.jpg
 

asleep003

Active Member
Yes, but when it matters HCGP has WJ on the field. In addition WJ has looked better than anyone on game day.

Partially true..... but there were many many times GP used Tucker in short yardage situation over EW and WJ in 2011. One of the reasons Tucker's ypc was lower than the other 2. In 2009 as a HS-FR Tucker was our 2nd leading rusher behind Joseph Turner, leading the team with 6.4 ypc ahead of RS-FR EW with 6.3 ypc., our 3rd leading rusher.

So, wouldn't give up on Big Plays on the ground just yet. We also have a kid who had 12.2ypc in a 5A HS league similar to WJs 11.3 ypc HS league. The only difference is WJ spent a RS year in the system 1st and Catalon is fresh out of HS... but so was Tucker 4 years ago. Both James and Catalon entered TCU at 5'8" at 190 w/sub 4,5 speed and double didgit ypc.

Plus ... we haven't seen enough of Dean behind the 1st OL to know what he really can do with the ball. So it's not quite time to panic or become hysterical about our rushing attack, yet. Believe we can still offer at least a 60/40 balanced attack.

Cheers !
 
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