Utah Cam Rising

[FightingIrish44]

Out for the year with a lower leg injury and has a potential eighth year of eligibility.

Did any of you watch the Utah Arizona State game? He didn’t seem to be able to step into his throws or run around. He still made some nice plays but he missed a lot of throws presumably because he couldn’t step into them.

Seems like a potentially unwise decision to leave him in..unfair to the player (though I don’t have most of the facts so I don’t want to call it unethical) and unfair to the team.

There’s a lot of criticism of ND leaving in Leonard but I don’t think Leonard was injured but rather “banged up”. I fully support leaving in Leonard.

Yet here Rising really didn’t appear healthy enough to be effective. That quite possibly cost Utah the game, their ranking, and a possible playoff bid.

Anyone else watch the game?

 

[NDblitz]

Out for the year with a lower leg injury and has a potential eighth year of eligibility.

Did any of you watch the Utah Arizona State game? He didn’t seem to be able to step into his throws or run around. He still made some nice plays but he missed a lot of throws presumably because he couldn’t step into them.

Seems like a potentially unwise decision to leave him in..unfair to the player (though I don’t have most of the facts so I don’t want to call it unethical) and unfair to the team.

There’s a lot of criticism of ND leaving in Leonard but I don’t think Leonard was injured but rather “banged up”. I fully support leaving in Leonard.

Yet here Rising really didn’t appear healthy enough to be effective. That quite possibly cost Utah the game, their ranking, and a possible playoff bid.

Anyone else watch the game?

The injury happened early. He's a bad luck injury guy. My brother played at Utah. Wants him gone. Feels he's a distraction.

 

[FightingIrish44]

The injury happened early. He's a bad luck injury guy. My brother played at Utah. Wants him gone. Feels he's a distraction.

I get that but my ire would be more directed at Whittingham for leaving him in. I don’t know what they have backing up Rising though.

 

[NDblitz]

I get that but my ire would be more directed at Whittingham for leaving him in. I don’t know what they have backing up Rising though.

Zach Wilson brother. True Frosh

 

[Tru2Irish]

Out for the year with a lower leg injury and has a potential eighth year of eligibility.

Did any of you watch the Utah Arizona State game? He didn’t seem to be able to step into his throws or run around. He still made some nice plays but he missed a lot of throws presumably because he couldn’t step into them.

Seems like a potentially unwise decision to leave him in..unfair to the player (though I don’t have most of the facts so I don’t want to call it unethical) and unfair to the team.

There’s a lot of criticism of ND leaving in Leonard but I don’t think Leonard was injured but rather “banged up”. I fully support leaving in Leonard.

Yet here Rising really didn’t appear healthy enough to be effective. That quite possibly cost Utah the game, their ranking, and a possible playoff bid.

Anyone else watch the game?

Rising will be 27 by time he leaves Utah. LOL.

 

[NDblitz]

Rising will be 27 by time he leaves Utah. LOL.

Won't be the first. BYU probably has 20 guys that age.

 

[savvyandsassier]

I don't understand that, how does that happen? I guess that's another rules innovation of the last several years or so. We're all familiar with the rare 6th year senior, if you have a chronic injury situation. But now I'm seeing 8th and 9th year seniors, I didn't realize it went that far. Maybe that was always allowable, but nobody ever got injured that repeatedly in the past. Like, every time they're coming back for their final year they just get injured again, and they have to keep putting it off. Or they split it up, and it's like, a guy's on a team for nine years, and is injured and out for the season every other year. I just thought six was the cutoff point, and beyond that you're SOL.

 

[NDblitz]

I don't understand that, how does that happen? I guess that's another rules innovation of the last several years or so. We're all familiar with the rare 6th year senior, if you have a chronic injury situation. But now I'm seeing 8th and 9th year seniors, I didn't realize it went that far. Maybe that was always allowable, but nobody ever got injured that repeatedly in the past. Like, every time they're coming back for their final year they just get injured again, and they have to keep putting it off. Or they split it up, and it's like, a guy's on a team for nine years, and is injured and out for the season every other year. I just thought six was the cutoff point, and beyond that you're SOL.

Rising is legit injured though. But it happens every year to the point that Utah can't move on. One of the resons I believe BYU is doing so well this year is they have a large number of 5-6 year guys from COVID plus Mormon missions. So their team is full of 23-26 year olds instead of 20-24 year olds like usual. BYU traditionally has a lot of 18 year old Frosh and then they send them on missions at 19. They come back as a 21 year old RS Frosh. It's manipulating a religious exemption for gain IMO. When we would play them at their place we would go out to get on the bus and they'd all be out there with their wives and little kids.