Gilliam broke his hand in practice today (unconfirmed)

#29
#29
You think a damn broken hand is going to keep this kid out, no way you can cut of both feet of this kid and he will crawl to the huddle a true VFL, I wish we had 85 with the guts this kid had if we did we would never lose another one.:salute:
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Our Oline is fragile

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"That must be Italian"
 
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#31
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Wouldn't be at all surprised. Then Hurd and Dobbs goes down too somehow
 
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volinbama256 said:
If so, what the hell!? How can you go the whole season on a torn ACL, then in bowl PRACTICE in shorts and pads, break your hand!? Bad enough Croom messes himself up in practice, but damn... this has got to be the worst year I can remember collectively on the number of injuries a UT team has sustained in a single season. Hope he is OK and can go out on a good note.....
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2002 was the worst I can remember
 
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#35
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CBJ has been mum on all injuries this year. He normally announces major game injuries the day prior to the game.
 
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volinbama256 said:
If so, what the hell!? How can you go the whole season on a torn ACL, then in bowl PRACTICE in shorts and pads, break your hand!? Bad enough Croom messes himself up in practice, but damn... this has got to be the worst year I can remember collectively on the number of injuries a UT team has sustained in a single season. Hope he is OK and can go out on a good note.....
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Not even close on the worst year with injuries. Fulmer had a year when about 20 starters or key players went out over the season. Every time a player needed assistance of the ground they missed multiple games. Cannot remember the exact year but it was early 2000s. We have had some key players get hurt but nothing like that year.

Edit: dduncan called it. 2002.
 
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fossilfiction said:
Not even close on the worst year with injuries. Fulmer had a year when about 20 starters or key players went out over the season. Every time a player needed assistance of the ground they missed multiple games. Cannot remember the exact year but it was early 2000s. We have had some key players get hurt but nothing like that year.

Edit: dduncan called it. 2002.
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Which players were injured that year? Trying to remember all of them but it's been 12 years and having a hard time.
 
#42
#42
I sure hope you guys aren't catching a case of the AIRBHG... It's a true thing in Iowa City!! Read this, you'll get a laugh and be like how is this even possible?! lol. It's alot.. OH and we just lost Bullock for the bowl game..he's a RB. lol.

AIRBHG is an acronym, which stands for 'Angry Iowa Running Back Hating God'. It's existence was first noted by the sports blog Black Heart, Gold Pants. Running backs who have played for the Iowa Hawkeyes during the Kirk Ferentz era have had a surprising, if not shocking string of bad luck. The only plausible explanation is that of an otherworldly force at play. Enter AIRBHG

The following Chronology was begun at The Hawkeye Lounge, but several revisions have been required to attain complete accuracy.

2001
1) Ladell Betts, after logging hundreds of carries over his first three seasons which do not result in a winning record, makes it through his 'payoff' senior year only to miss his final game, due to injury. This is the first time where AIRBHG strikes, but it's unattributable due to it being the first occurrence.
2) Replacement Aaron Greving rushes for over 100 yards in the Alamo Bowl, raising expectations for 2002.

2002
1) Greving, the projected starter is injured and abruptly quits mid way through the season.
2) Justice Hariston fails to qualify, goes to prep school and then to Purdue where he has a decent, injury free, career.
3) Jermelle Lewis has a very good year backing up Fred Russell; AIRBHG takes note.
4) Russell has one of the most productive rushing seasons in Iowa history

2003
1) Lewis tears ACL in the spring, misses first half of season but is not the same back upon his return
2) Promising freshman Albert Young breaks leg on kickoff return, out for year.
3) AJ Johnson lasts a semester before getting kicked out.
4) Russell escapes the wrath of AIRBHG, likely due to his being 5-feet-6 inches tall and hiding behind gargantuan Left Tackle Robert Gallery
5) Champ Davis starts at fullback for Iowa in season opening win against Miami, becoming the first true freshman to start on offense under Kirk Ferentz at Iowa. AIRBHG is not amused and takes note.

2004
1) Shonn Greene fails to qualify out of high school
2) Russell leaves early for the NFL, thumbs nose at AIRBHG. However, he goes undrafted
3) In a move designed to confuse AIRBHG, Champ Davis moves from fullback to tight end during 2004 spring practice before moving back to fullback during the season
4) Lewis tears other ACL
5) Albert Young tears ACL misses second full season.
6) Marques Simmons misses several games with a high ankle sprain
7) Marcus Schnoor tears ACL
8) Champ Davis misses final four games of 2004 due to injury
9) Sam Brownlee leads Iowa in rushing with 227 yards.
NOTE: Iowa overcomes AIRBHG and shares the Big Ten title with Michigan, despite one of the worst rushing attacks in college football. Iowa finishes the year 10-2 after a 2-2 start, concluding with Drew Tate hitting Warren Holloway as time expired on a bomb in the 2005 Capital One Bowl. AIRBHG attempted to influence the outcome in this one by distorting Offensive Coordinator Ken O'Keefe and Head Coach Kirk Ferentz's clock awareness, but the players were able to rise above and emerge victorious. However, AIRBHG is unamused.

2005
1) Ferentz tricks AIRBHG by briefly moving Damian Sims to corner. As of 2012, Sims remains is the only scholarship running back to go four years without a major injury.

2006
1) Kalvin Bailey - flunked out after one year
2) Corey Robertson - flunked out after one year
3) Albert Young, having sacrificed two years to AIRBHG, is rewarded with a complete season in which he gains over 1,000 rushing in conference play alone. He remains the last scholarship Iowa running back to reach his senior season while still enrolled at the University of Iowa.

2007
1) Shonn Greene ineligible
2) Dana Brown assaults girlfriend and is kicked off the team during the great purge of '07.

2008
1) Jevon Pugh - left school after one year
2) Jeff Brinson - injured and redshirts
3) Nate Guillory, a Juco transfer, leaves in fall camp. Rumors abound that he saw an apparition resembling AIRBHG whilst chanting 'Bloody Mary' in the football training room with the lights off and left town without bringing along any of his personal effects. This is unconfirmed, however.
4) Paki O'Meara #2 on depth chart throughout season.
5) Greene, having surrendered two years to AIRBHG, is rewarded with the best season running the ball in Iowa history and wins the Doak Walker Award as the nation's top running back.

2009
1) Just days into 2009, Greene comes across a collection of long lost Irish sayings which includes 'May you be in the NFL one season before AIRBHG knows you're out of Iowa City' and decides to turn professional with one year of eligibility remaining. He is presently unharmed and walks without the aid of crutches or a knee brace.
2) Jewel Hampton tears ACL in fall camp
3) Brinson still injured has one carry
4) Adam Robinson and Brandon Wegher do a nice job but usually one or both is hobbled
5) Paki again a staple on depth chart. Rumors suggesting Paki was a frequent visitor to the Black Angel in an Iowa City cemetery are as of yet unfounded.

2010
1) Brinson leaves before spring ball
2) Wegher chooses not to play football for Iowa following an 11-2, Orange Bowl winning season.
3) Marcus Coker - breaks collarbone in August camp
4) Hampton - torn ACL by game three, transfers prior to bowl
5) Robinson - concussions, then academics, not in good standing, then marijuana arrest, kicked off team
6) Paki apparently also injured.
7) Brad Rogers misses 2010 Insight Bowl with heart condition

2011
1. Mika'il McCall was the talk of camp and goes off in the first quarter of the first game, then suffers a broken ankle after nine carries
2. Rogers misses the first half of the season with the heart condition, then is cleared to play
3. McCall is cleared to play but doesn't see action against Minnesota and Michigan. Gets two carries at Purdue, fumbles and is benched. Suspended for the season shortly thereafter for undisclosed reasons
4. Coker somehow escapes AIRBHG for the regular season, but is suspended for the 2011 Insight Bowl for a violation of the student code.
5. Jordan Canzeri starts and plays well in bowl game, AIRBHG notices.
NOTE: Hampton has a breakout year for Southern Illinois, gaining 1,121 yards and scoring 17 touchdowns. He elects to turn professional with one year of eligibility remaining.

2012
1. McCall transfers in January of 2012
2. Coker transfers to Stony Brook in January of 2012 after rushing for nearly 1,400 yards as a sophomore at Iowa, which was good for the second best total in the Big Ten in 2012
3. Indiana Brownlee tries to end the curse of AIRBHG
4. Canzeri suffers knee injury in March of 2012 during the third practice of spring drills and also the first day in pads. Canzeri's father confirms to HawkeyeInsider.com that it was a tear of the ACL and that Jordan will likely redshirt in 2013.
5. Incoming running back Greg Garmon openly mocks AIRBHG on March 30th
6. Garmon retweets curious item from 'Weed Tweets' on May 12th
7. Incoming running back Greg Garmon arrested for marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia in early June.
7a. 7/26/12: Ferentz announces that Garmon will not be suspended as this falls within the student code of conduct and first violation parameters, per Ferentz.
8a. 7/26/12: De'Andre Johnson, who was listed as the #2 back heading into fall camp per Iowa's 2012 media guide, cited for Disorderly House
8b. 7/28/12: De'Andre Johnson charged with speeding on a motorcycle (60 in a 25) in University Heights as well as briefly evading police, per the police report.
8c. 7/29/12: Ferentz releases statement: “I was very disappointed to learn of the situation involving De’Andre Johnson Saturday evening. As a result, De’Andre has been suspended immediately from all team activities.”
8d. 8/1/12: De'Andre Johnson dismissed from team. “I am disappointed that things didn’t work out better for De’Andre,” said Ferentz. “We wish him all the best moving forward.”
9a. 8/18/12: Freshman running back Barkley Hill injures left knee on final play of the scrimmage. Personnel on the field were reported saying they heard a 'pop'. Hill was taken off the field on a cart. Nothing official has been reported as of yet.
9b. 8/21/12: Iowa confirms that Hill tore his ACL & will miss season.
10. 9/15/12: Damon Bullock rushes for nearly 80 yards in little more than a quarter against UNI and is knocked unconscious, leaves the game, likely concussion of a yet to be determined grade.
11. 9/15/12: Greg Garmon replaces Bullock against UNI and injures his right arm/elbow. Did not return, arm was bandaged and iced. Prognosis uncertain.
 
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#43
#43
it'll take more than a broke hand to keep that kid out. Gilliam personifies "Tennessee Tough"
 
#44
#44
He will play, but it may slow him down or cause a half second hold that isn't there for him now to be the difference in a sack or busted play here and there. He's a warrior though, they'll have to take his helmet if they don't want him to play, he'd go with any injury I belive.
 
#45
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ButchBallVFL said:
He will play, but it may slow him down or cause a half second hold that isn't there for him now to be the difference in a sack or busted play here and there. He's a warrior though, they'll have to take his helmet if they don't want him to play, he'd go with any injury I belive.
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I don't see a lack of helmet stopping him either (other than the refs wouldn't let him on the field)
 
#49
#49
Gilliam should move to Hollywood after his tenure here. He can be that hero that gets all shot up, car crashing, falling out of buildings guy, who always makes it through the end. Tough dude for sure!
 
#50
#50
Someone please link the broken hand report or moods delete the thread. I can't find it anywhere.
 
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