I did get a tens unit off Amazon at home after they used it on me in PT and it was amazing. I must be built different because I went straight to full power right off the bat and loved it. My PT guy started at the lower settings and said something like, “Tell me when it gets uncomfortable and I’ll back it off…” I get telling him to bump it up and eventually I hit max power like Spinal Tap. I was a little bummed cause it didn’t go to 11
Agreed. Before the injury was disclosed, though, I figured at a bare minimum Iowa would get an average, competent performance from him. A big, mobile guy who could manage a game, wouldn't turn it over much, and was a great leader. And that would be a major step up from past seasons for Iowa. That was the baseline.
This is football, everyone is pre-owned by their Senior years in college
Like Iowa didn't give him a medical evaluation before accepting his commitment. Iowa knew about this and anyone who thinks they didn't doesn't really know how these visits and evaluations go. I am positive he had to provide medical documentation, and to be honest, they were discussing how he was playing hurt during the national championship game and I heard it at least half a dozen times. Not only did Iowa know, the whole country did.
I didn't know as many others didn't but of course Iowa knew. That is obvious
Exactly
That was the one and only period in my life where I took opioids and it scared the bejesus out of me. I HATE that I liked how I felt and I never wanted to admit it. My brain is one of those where anything with morphine in it makes me feel like I have no cares and I think I'm Superman. Some folks I know it just makes them feel awful.
I have to think that donors could back out if they wanted to, and I'd also venture to guess that the big ones whose money was targeted at Gronowski knew already before they ponied up. If Heinrichs did something like that on the down low without saying anything privately that's a great way to scare off donors and not have them playing ball in the future.
Yep.
I never said it was a bad move, but I am saying it likely played a part in Iowa being able to land him. I also think the folks writing the checks for this knew about it 100%.
Replace McNamara with Gronkowski and the same sentence could be written. And McNamara's pedigree of leading his team to a BTen championship -- and looking good while doing it -- was a lot more impressive than Gronk's accomplishments up to this point.
What an incredible number of assumptions packed into one post!How fun is all this...
So that explains the whole delay in things becoming official with him committing then when it seemed like he was coming to Iowa for awhile. Some had rumored that other schools were in on him too but once they found out the medicals they backed off. Which makes sense too. That makes more sense then him deciding between the NFL and school because if he chose NFL who's paying for the procedure? Make the schools insurance do it is always the easiest answer.
He wasn't going to go to NFL cause if he can't do spring ball then he wouldn't have been able to do the combine for NFL either. He woulda really needed that I would think to impress NFL GMs.
Here's where Iowa and the Swarm I think both conspired to dupe donors. Brad was tweeting with both hands out begging for $ the days prior to Mark committing yet all this medical stuff was already known about his decision to have this procedure done. They (Iowa coaches and Brad) knew had the injury been disclosed publicly prior to the commitment many donors woulda sat on their wallets. To me that's pretty shitty to do and had I donated a significant amount I'd have felt a type a way about it.
All that said maybe he won't need all the spring practices to get up to speed for week one. If he's good for August camp maybe that'll be good enough.... At this point we have Sully in the wings if not and we are where we are. Crossing fingers Sully doesn't leave I know he's said he wouldn't but we all know how things can change. My guess is we haven't seen the last of Sully taking snaps. Time will tell.
Wish we knew any of those big $ donors to know for sure. One would think that way you're guess is as good as mine. But regardless he was tweeting publicly begging and everyone knew why. It wasn't so they could land the kicker recruit they just got.
That's a sad story about your co-workers wife. But I know it can happen. My personality is like that -- get me some pain pills or muscle relaxants and I wanna be on 'em for the rest of my livin' days.
I agree it's a no brainer for him. For Iowa it kinda is too. Since they didn't seem to have any other better options. Iowa wasn't turning down a healthy Pribula for him. Hell MG is lucky Pribula did go to Mizzu cause that may have cornered Mark into going pro and then what? He put off the surgery and go do the combine and see how he does? There's what ifs all over the place with this that are fun to think about. Most of em don't matter now though. He's a Hawk and we'll get our first look at him week 1.
