Injury Report 2013 (UPDATED Nov 23rd)

[Escambia94]

This must be some kind of record! The Gators lost their 8th 9th 10th player to a season-ending injury!

PLAYER POS/Yr INJURY INJURY DATE

1. Andre Debose WR Sr Torn ACL August 6
2. Matt Rolin OLB Fr Torn ACL August 8
3. Chaz Green RT Torn labrum August 26
4. Nick Washington CB Shoulder September 11
5. Jeff Driskel QB Jr Broken fibula September 21
6. Dominique Easley DT Sr Torn ACL, meniscus September 24 (withdrew from school November 6, signed an agent)
7. Matt Jones RB So Torn meniscus October 12
8. Jeremi Powell LB RFr Torn ACL October 19
9. [EDIT] Tyler Moore OL TrSo (from Nebraska) Broken elbow November 6
10. [EDIT] Antonio Morrison LB So Torn meniscus November 9

This team has been banged up quite a bit. Here are the "minor" injuries that have occurred.
PlayerPositionInjuryTime Missed

1. Jeff Driskel QB Broken fibula - Tennessee (most); out for season September 21
2. Matt Jones RB Viral infection, torn meniscus - Toledo (game); LSU (most); out for season October 12
3. Mack Brown RB Ankle - LSU (part)
4. Valdez Showers RB Ankle - Tennessee (game), Kentucky (game)
5. Andre Debose WR/KR Torn ACL - Out for season August 6
6. Colin Thompson TEFoot stress fracture - "Several weeks" post-Tennessee
7. D.J. Humphries LT Sprained MCL; recurrence - Toledo, Miami (part), Georgia and Vanderbilt (full)
8. Max Garcia- LG Unknown - Miami (part)
9. Jonotthan Harrison C Unknown -Miami (part)
10. Jon Halapio RG Torn pectoral; eye poke- Toledo, Miami (full)
11. Tyler Moore RT/LT Ankle - Miami (part); Tennessee (full); out for season November 6
12. Chaz Green RT Torn labrum - Out for season August 26
13. Dominique Easley DT Torn ACL, meniscus - Kentucky, out for season September 24
14. Damien Jacobs DT Head - LSU (part); Missouri (full)
15. Ronald Powell LB/Buck Ankle - Missouri (full)
16. Darrin Kitchens LB "Chronic shoulder problems" - Missouri (full), Georgia Southern (partial)
17. Alex Anzalone LBAnkle - LSU (full), Georgia Southern (partial), likely FSU
18. Matt Rolin OLB Torn ACL - Out for season August 8
19. Jeremi Powell LB/ST Torn ACL - Missouri (part); Georgia (full)
20. Marcus Roberson CB Knee - Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas (full), Georgia Southern
21. Loucheiz Purifoy CB Thigh contusion - Tennessee (part)
22. Nick Washington CB Shoulder - Tennessee, out for season September 11
23. Tyler Murphy QB Shoulder - missed practice before Georgia, South Carolina, Georgia Southern.
24. Solomon Patton WR Knee - Vanderbilt (part) November 9
25. Jonathan Bullard DE - Georgia Southern November 23
26. Michael Taylor LB - Georgia Southern, FSU November 23
27. Trey Burton QB/WR/TE - FSU November 30
28. Marcus Roberson CB - FSU November 30

Edit: just for kicks I decided to show team suspensions as well, bringing our count to 31 players that have missed games. At one point the Gators had fewer athletes available than NCAA sanctioned USCw (approximately 56).

1. Latroy Pittman -- 3 games: Missed the first three games of the season for a violation of team rules.
2. Demarcus Robinson -- 1 game: Missed the Tennessee game due to a violation of team rules. Out for rest of season starting Nov 23 due to violation of team rules.
3. Quinteze Williams -- 1 game: Missed the season opener due to a violation of team rules.
4. Darious Cummings -- 1 game: Missed the season opener due to a violation of team rules.
5. Antonio Morrison -- 1 game: Missed the season opener due to suspension after two offseason arrests.
6. Loucheiz Purifoy -- 1 game: Missed the season opener due to a violation of team rules.

Medical and miscellaneous redshirts:

1. DT Jay-nard Bostwick (maybe)
2. DT Caleb Brantley
3. DT Antonio Riles
4. QB Max Staver
5. RB Adam Lane
6. OL Cameron Dillard
7. OL Roderick Johnson (knee injury)
8. OL Octavius Jackson
9. OL Trevon Young
10. WR Alvin Bailey
11. WR Marqui Hawkins
12. DE Joey Ivie
13. DE Jordan Sherit (knee injury and scooter incident)
14. LB Matt Rolin (knee injury)
15. CB Nick Washington (has played; out for year with shoulder injury)
16. S Marcell Harris (knee injury)

 

[DRU2012]

We ARE a mess--and altho' it CAN be well-argued that this has contributed mightily to our difficulties this season, it does NOT explain our full-on collapse, now well -under way...
Meanwhile, there is some question of whether we're "doing something wrong" to incur such injuries in such large numbers--but I would argue the following: First, there was from the start a greater rate-of-loss on the offensive side, interestingly, until SECOND, the toll of fatigue and just plain amount-of-time-on-the-field exposed the defensive players to more statistical CHANCE of injury, these two factors beginning together over time to likely increase the eventual inevitable increase in defensive injuries--which has indeed more and more occurred of late.
MY position, of course, is to turn our attention from this season's woes and "what can be salvaged" to axing the OC, bringing in the best we can find to begin all the work of phasing in a NEW system, giving Mornigweg his shot and experience with that new offense, all part of the larger job of being all the more ready to "hit the ground running" next spring in preparation for 2014--when our defense (with what we still have that much more experienced than they would have been, the guys we'll have coming back healthy, plus the red shirts AND new recruits) will likely be more than ever an irresistible force, were we to finally field an efficient offense (one that will have its OWN combination of experienced young players and returning , highly-talented "veteran" players, plus maybe a TRULY talented QB or two for a change!) which actually aimed to score points and dominate to some extent in its OWN right, we'd sweep aside even most SEC-opponents easily on our way to the inaugural 4-team play-off.

(BTW--As it stands, whether it's Muschamp, Pease, or just general institutional-blindness in a time of great difficulty elsewhere in our program, there has been no apparent interest or effort in recruiting that 5-star QB in Jacksonville that FSU, Miami, OSU, USC(west AND east), etc are all going after...Oh, and another thing I meant to mention/ask of y'all: For OC candidates, I'm drawing a blank embarrassingly enough on the name of that former Gator QB who coached--is coaching?--at Jacksonville University, who I think WILL get a shot eventually, tho' I'm not so sure he's ready yet...Who am I thinking of here?)

 

[Escambia94]

Kerwin Bell. http://www.judolphins.com/football/coaches/

 

[DRU2012]

Kerwin Bell. http://www.judolphins.com/football/coaches/

Thankyou! (Brainfreeze on that one.) Again, not so sure he's ready for this level, or even deserves that shot yet--but DAMN: He's bound to do a better job than our current OC, not even counting Kerwin's certain overall commitment to making his alma mater's offense, so strong when he was here and needing any kind of spark now, great once more. Not going out on any limbs here: Our present offense is statistically rated as one of the worst in Div. I football this season, down even from our 104th rating (!!!) LAST year. Again: Wtf will it take to get our Head Coach to MAKE a change, if that alone isn't sufficient grounds?
(Oh--and another thing: I now wonder if Muschamp would have made a change had Weis NOT left on his own after that first inept year here as our OC--I suspect he may well have let the fat man stay, indecisive on pulling-the-trigger THEN as he continues to be now in Pease's case..."pattern of behavior" beginning to take shape, I fear...Is it possible all both, anyone had to do was convincingly profess sharing his philosophy of "pro-set, ball-control, no-gamble"-offense and promise to stay with it, "No matter what!", in order to get and keep the job?)

 

[Escambia94]

Thanks to the injury bug, Muschamp gets all the excuses he needs for a 200th-ranked offense. However, logic indicates that we may see a change in OC or OL coach if the offense does not clean up and look less sloppy when we lose.

 

[DRU2012]

Thanks to the injury bug, Muschamp gets all the excuses he needs for a 200th-ranked offense. However, logic indicates that we may see a change in OC or OL coach if the offense does not clean up and look less sloppy when we lose.

No doubt--but his indecision is showing, and it's a major problem here I think...If you just read down the headlines in the latest Gator Bleacher Report you see his self-confessed repeated contradictions and refusal to do what his own statements make clear is required, even as he flip-flops back'n'forth right down the middle of blame--and in the end let's his OC off the hook somehow for an "inept" and "impotent" offense. I couldn't BE more frustrated or SICK of it all.

 

[DRU2012]

How about THIS: Let's return to this simple question of "entertainment"...Even setting aside for a moment the idea that we may just know a LITTLE bit about the game of "College Football" played at this level, and "a little" is all that's required to see that what THEY'VE been doing hasn't been working at ALL, the fact still remains that what they have presented out there on offense, so large a part of the practical and, more important to our discussion, the "ENTERTAINMENT VALUE" of this paying spectator sport--which, after all, funds virtually every other sports program played at major universities, including our own--in it's recent and current form ABSOLUTELY SUCKS! It's absolutely sickening, no fun AT ALL to watch! Does that not count for SOMETHING? Or do we have to STAY AWAY in droves before Foley and the Regents will HAVE to act in this matter? I'd advise Mr. Muschamp NOT to put this to the test, nor push too much further in this direction...

 

[miltongator]

How about THIS: Let's return to this simple question of "entertainment"...Even setting aside for a moment the idea that we may just know a LITTLE bit about the game of "College Football" played at this level, and "a little" is all that's required to see that what THEY'VE been doing hasn't been working at ALL, the fact still remains that what they have presented out there on offense, so large a part of the practical and, more important to our discussion, the "ENTERTAINMENT VALUE" of this paying spectator sport--which, after all, funds virtually every other sports program played at major universities, including our own--in it's recent and current form ABSOLUTELY SUCKS! It's absolutely sickening, no fun AT ALL to watch! Does that not count for SOMETHING? Or do we have to STAY AWAY in droves before Foley and the Regents will HAVE to act in this matter? I'd advise Mr. Muschamp NOT to put this to the test, nor push too much further in this direction...

Another "nail on the head" from Dru. Bottom line is that this is supposed to be entertaining. We haven't had that for 3 years. I can't imagine a TV network or Bowl Selection folks getting real excited about this team. If the powers that be continue with this version of college football, they will end up losing the fan base. It used to be fun and exciting to watch my beloved Gators play offense......now it's "Uh-Oh we have to go on offense now". Depressing.

 

[DRU2012]

@miltongator, (and really, to everyone else here--whom I now ask to consider "where we go from here", based on "what's broken?" in it's simplest, stripped down form)
EXACTLY: This is one of those "bottom line", K.I.S.S. ideas. All the rest, the subtle practicalities, the "philosophy, strategy and tactics" of creating, building and running a successful college football program, in truth evolve and flow from this fundamental concept. Even the "winning fixes everything"-part is really just one more thing that results from watching something enjoyable, an entertaining onfield product, 'cause IT WORKS--it produces POINTS, and it's even better when it does it in an exciting way that uses the various talented components that presumably have been assembled here to do just that! How hard is this to grasp, and when did Will & Co. lose their capacity to do so?

 

[Escambia94]

What is broken? Their plan to win is predicated on all the players we lost for the season, and that plan is not flexible in any way. Everyone else's plan to win seems to work with 2nd and 3rd string players. I don't get it.

 

[Escambia94]

Add OL Tyler Moore to the list. He broke his elbow while riding on his scooter and will miss the rest of the season. This will be the ninth player we have lost for the season. We have now had 22 players miss games due to injury. There are only two season-opener starters on offense that have not missed a game.

FYI: The Gators only brought 56 players out of the maximum 70 allowed by NCAA to travel for the Mizzou game. At this point, the Gators have about 65 healthy scholarship and non-scholarship players out of 105 maximum allowed on the team that can dress for the home games. This has to be some kind of record.

 

[Escambia94]

To add insult to injury, Solomon Patton was banged up in the Vandy loss. He will probably plan against our South Carolina loss this weekend, but our best playmaker will not be at 100%.

 

[Escambia94]

I am not making this up: The Gators lost Antonio Morrison for the rest of the season due to a torn meniscus in the knee. He suffered the injury in the Vanderbilt game, but kept playing. Sigh. Just when you think we have hit rock bottom, we sink even lower.

 

[Escambia94]

I have no new injuries to report, but I did want to bring up a point. Not only are we lacking depth due to injury, but also to attrition. Look at these former Gators. Many of them would have been better second-team players than the ones we have now:

• Jacoby Brissett- Sitting out a season at NCSt. Probably would have led Florida to wins over UGA and USCe, maybe Vanderbilt.
• Gerald Christian- This Louisville TE has 400 more yards and 4 more TDs than all of our TEs combined!
• Jessamen Dunker- This OL at Tennessee State would have helped out lot this year.
• Matt Patchan- ACC OL of the week at Boston College.
• Robert Clark- This Louisville WR is struggling. Probably would no be a factor.
• Chris Dunkley- This explosive receiver at USF is rarely targeted (except by campus police), but averages 23 YPC when he is.
• AC Leonard- This Tennessee State TE was an FCS All American last year! As a TE he has more yards than any of our receivers. We miss this guy.
• Josh Shaw- This USC DB has been doing well despite shuffling from corner to safety. He makes key plays and is well liked. We miss this guy.