Vols' training staff working overtime to get players healthy

[kamoshika]

McVeigh and his staff have been busy in the training room with 16 Tennessee players missing at least one start due to injury and three suffering season-ending injuries. At least seven other Tennessee players have been visited by trainers on the field during games.

The injuries haven’t been selective. They’ve spanned from offensive linemen to defensive backs, from preseason All-SEC selections to first-year backups. They’ve involved ankles, knees, heads, shoulders and pecs.

“The unusual thing this year is it’s been different. We’ve studied body positions, we’ve studied the grass, we’ve studied practice. We’ve had very minimal injuries in practice, so we’ve studied why they’ve occurred and it has been one of those years,” Tennessee coach Butch Jones said. “I have never been through a year like this in coaching ever, and a lot of my colleagues are calling me.”
Vols' training staff working overtime to get players healthy

 

[Alto1]

As well they should. Good to hear...........

 

[ptcarter]

I whined just a little to a Bama coworker about the injuries. He chastised me. "Now, you know you can't go there", he said. "All teams get injuries."

Made me think. Is he right?

I ended up replying "OK, fair enough, but just be aware that the team that Bama beat wasn't the same team that existed at the start of the season. If you think Bama beat a team that was at full strength and was a good team, well they aren't at this juncture".

Bama is good, no doubt. I just wonder how we'd have faired if we'd swapped the game date with the Florida game? Not saying we would have been favored, but the chances for an upset would have been a little better without the attrition.

All in all, it doesn't matter. With a little luck, we'll see them again soon.

 

[orangeluvr]

Oral Roberts joins UT training staff, your favorite Vol healed for a love gift of $50.00.

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

The playing field @ Neyland could use some work too.

 

[volmoon]

Oral Roberts joins UT training staff, your favorite Vol healed for a love gift of $50.00.

That would be something since he is deceased. Would you prefer the non-Christian, metaphysical guru Deepak Chopra, who seeks about $20,000 per session?

 

[Nocleats]

Much of the recovery depends upon the player. For instance, did the ones who are banged up, take advantage of a Fri. and Sat off and rest their bodies, or, did they go home and "kick it" with there old friends?

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

I whined just a little to a Bama coworker about the injuries. He chastised me. "Now, you know you can't go there", he said. "All teams get injuries."

Made me think. Is he right?

I ended up replying "OK, fair enough, but just be aware that the team that Bama beat wasn't the same team that existed at the start of the season. If you think Bama beat a team that was at full strength and was a good team, well they aren't at this juncture".

Bama is good, no doubt. I just wonder how we'd have faired if we'd swapped the game date with the Florida game? Not saying we would have been favored, but the chances for an upset would have been a little better without the attrition.

All in all, it doesn't matter. With a little luck, we'll see them again soon.

No he isnt right. Anybody, and I mean anybody who thinks the amount of injuries UT has not played a HUGE factor in the ganes against TAMU and Bama just doesnt know that much.

 

[Iam4utalways]

Much of the recovery depends upon the player. For instance, did the ones who are banged up, take advantage of a Fri. and Sat off and rest their bodies, or, did they go home and "kick it" with there old friends?

If Cam is in the film room, the others had better be in the training room, if there is any chance of coming back this year.

 

[chuck0303]

I whined just a little to a Bama coworker about the injuries. He chastised me. "Now, you know you can't go there", he said. "All teams get injuries."

Made me think. Is he right?

I ended up replying "OK, fair enough, but just be aware that the team that Bama beat wasn't the same team that existed at the start of the season. If you think Bama beat a team that was at full strength and was a good team, well they aren't at this juncture".

Bama is good, no doubt. I just wonder how we'd have faired if we'd swapped the game date with the Florida game? Not saying we would have been favored, but the chances for an upset would have been a little better without the attrition.

All in all, it doesn't matter. With a little luck, we'll see them again soon.

Despite the injuries I don't think I would want to point to our team at the beginning of the season; having to come from behind in all of our first few games and really not doing squat in the first halves of games.

 

[Aday25]

I whined just a little to a Bama coworker about the injuries. He chastised me. "Now, you know you can't go there", he said. "All teams get injuries."

Made me think. Is he right?

I ended up replying "OK, fair enough, but just be aware that the team that Bama beat wasn't the same team that existed at the start of the season. If you think Bama beat a team that was at full strength and was a good team, well they aren't at this juncture".

Bama is good, no doubt. I just wonder how we'd have faired if we'd swapped the game date with the Florida game? Not saying we would have been favored, but the chances for an upset would have been a little better without the attrition.

All in all, it doesn't matter. With a little luck, we'll see them again soon.

Typical Bammer response. I would grant the argument if it is a handful of injuries. But our injury list looks like a plague has hit the team. These aren't injuries that could be overcome by any team, even Bama would be effected by that many. I hope we play them again at full strength and upset their dumb arses. Or at least prove their win in Knoxville was so lopsided because of injuries not because they are that much better. I would grant they probably would have still won but at full strength no way it turns into the blood bath it did.

 

[njvols]

Haven't even looked at it, and know had a rash away at TaM, but how many of the ankle/knee injuries have occurred at home. Neyland turf not the disaster yet as LY, but makes me wonder?

 

[SaintLouisVol]

Haven't even looked at it, and know had a rash away at TaM, but how many of the ankle/knee injuries have occurred at home. Neyland turf not the disaster yet as LY, but makes me wonder?

Wouldn't you have seen a bunch of visiting players dropping too? I don't recall that.

 

[savannahfan]

Haven't even looked at it, and know had a rash away at TaM, but how many of the ankle/knee injuries have occurred at home. Neyland turf not the disaster yet as LY, but makes me wonder?

In watching a lot of these injuries in slow mo, most seem to happen from "roll ups" from contact from other players. Ankle or other wise, i.e. knees, muscle, hips, ect. Only a few could be considered "no fault" by a play. As for shoulder, pics or for that matter any upper body injury, the field or turf doesn't have much chance of being the cause. If anything, falling on grass and dirt with a shoulder or for that matter anybody part should be less of a shock than the artificial stuff.

 

[VOLED]

I whined just a little to a Bama coworker about the injuries. He chastised me. "Now, you know you can't go there", he said. "All teams get injuries."

Made me think. Is he right?

I ended up replying "OK, fair enough, but just be aware that the team that Bama beat wasn't the same team that existed at the start of the season. If you think Bama beat a team that was at full strength and was a good team, well they aren't at this juncture".

Bama is good, no doubt. I just wonder how we'd have faired if we'd swapped the game date with the Florida game? Not saying we would have been favored, but the chances for an upset would have been a little better without the attrition.

All in all, it doesn't matter. With a little luck, we'll see them again soon.[/QUOTE

If so, imagine what he would do if they had lost all that we have

 

[orangeluvr]

That would be something since he is deceased. Would you prefer the non-Christian, metaphysical guru Deepak Chopra, who seeks about $20,000 per session?

Actually those two are charlatans , maybe the good witch of the east will cast a protection over our players. One could argue we're one of the most, if not the most inured team in the country and it's plain ole bad luck.