Persa rehab ahead of schedule

[PJHawk]

Good news for Wildcats, bad news for Hawkeyes

Persa shows no signs of having suffered a season-ending injury. He wears heel cups in his right shoe to take pressure off the Achilles, having ditched a boot he wore for most of December back on New Year’s Eve.

‘‘He’s a machine,’’ Collins said.

Persa is at least three to four weeks ahead of schedule in his rehab and is coming up on his 12-week post-operative checkup. People who have had surgery on a ruptured Achilles usually don’t do the kind of rehab Persa has been doing until after their 12-week checkup.


Cats QB Persa frustrated, but ahead of schedule in rehab - Chicago Sun-Times

 

[edr247]

Nooooooooo!

But seriously. I wish him a speedy recovery. If we ever beat those damned Cats, I want to know it's because we could actually manage a full game against a full strength opponent.

 

[ShadasRevenge]

How is this bad news? It's not like his injury was going to keep him out of the game next year.

 

[okeefe4prez]

Basanez, Kafka, Persa - it doesn't matter who the 'Cats play at QB, they own Iowa.

 

[PJHawk]

Basanez, Kafka, Persa - it doesn't matter who the 'Cats play at QB, they own Iowa.

Considering you are now going to be a NU season ticket holder don't you me we own Iowa?

 

[hawkeye2188]

Basanez, Kafka, Persa - it doesn't matter who the 'Cats play at QB, they own Iowa.

Left out CJ Basher(sp?) and yes I agree it doesnt matte who is at QB they have Iowa's number Kirk has PSUs.

 

[okeefe4prez]

Considering you are now going to be a NU season ticket holder don't you me we own Iowa?

Hold on pal, just because I have Cats season tix doesn't mean I've given up on my Hawks. Consider it an investment in tailgating - an opportunity to tailgate 10 or 11 times a year rather than just 6 or 7.

I saw some NU kids at CVS yesterday and the inability to speak the English language that I observed when I took Human Sexuality whilst in LS at Iowa seems to have permeated NU as well. This "dude" was talking to some gal and he must have said "like" 20 times in the one minute he stood in line behind me. I used to run a "like-o-meter" in that Human Sexuality class and the most I heard were just over 100 misused "likes" over the course of the class - this fella would have, like totally like shattered that like record. A university the caliber of Northwestern should require an interview and if some kid can't spit out two sentences in a row without throwing "like" between every other word, he ought to just go straight to Starbucks.

 

[okeefe4prez]

Left out CJ Basher(sp?) and yes I agree it doesnt matte who is at QB they have Iowa's number Kirk has PSUs.

Forgot about him. Helluva ball player.

 

[tm3308]

How is this bad news? It's not like his injury was going to keep him out of the game next year.

No, but people weren't sure if he'd be the same player again. He may still not be, but if he's this far ahead in his rehab, I'd say his odds of making a FULL recovery are pretty solid.

 

[OUTofTOWNHAWK]

No, but people weren't sure if he'd be the same player again. He may still not be, but if he's this far ahead in his rehab, I'd say his odds of making a FULL recovery are pretty solid.

Good, because this whole Nw thing cant end unless they are at full strength. Hopefully this year we can put this thing to bed. If it doesnt end I might go loony like Okeefeforprez.

 

[PJHawk]

I saw some NU kids at CVS yesterday and the inability to speak the English language that I observed when I took Human Sexuality whilst in LS at Iowa seems to have permeated NU as well. This "dude" was talking to some gal and he must have said "like" 20 times in the one minute he stood in line behind me. I used to run a "like-o-meter" in that Human Sexuality class and the most I heard were just over 100 misused "likes" over the course of the class - this fella would have, like totally like shattered that like record. A university the caliber of Northwestern should require an interview and if some kid can't spit out two sentences in a row without throwing "like" between every other word, he ought to just go straight to Starbucks.

So, like, is there a point to this? or do I, like, just respond with a "cool story brah" or what?

 

[VintageHawkeye]

So, like, is there a point to this? or do I, like, just respond with a "cool story brah" or what?

like, you use the universal "like" symbol, like, I think?

 

[okeefe4prez]

So, like, is there a point to this? or do I, like, just respond with a "cool story brah" or what?

You just had to respond, huh. I was so close to coming back full circle in my hatred for Northwestern, so close, and then you just had to be an a-hole. Must fight urge to turn against Hawkfan again...

 

[clim33]

Listen I hope the guy doesn't get hurt too bad but I hope this guy gets well so we can blow something else out at the beginning of the game next year

Hate NW......They should be our rival

Hate em

 

[okeefe4prez]

Hate NW......They should be our rival

No they shouldn't be our rival. They are a small private school that charges ballpark 40k a year in tuition and they wear purple. They schedule classes at 9 in the morning on Saturdays in the fall and people go to them. They should, at best, be Illinois' rival. Not ours. They play in a crappy stadium and have terrible facilities. The talent of the young ladies in Evanston is nowhere near IC because the academic standards are too high, Evanston's like Champaign, but uglier in terms of the gals in the student bodies (the young moms driving the BMW SUVs are a different story though - they all went to Northern Illinois, Iowa or Illinois State and married some deep pocketed north shore guy from Northwestern). There is NO reason those clowns should be anywhere near us. And no, us beating PSU a lot has nothing to do with it, we are closer to PSU than Northwestern is to us in terms of skill and facilities. No fellas, Kirk Ferentz is on the take. There's no other way to explain it.

 

[iowamike21]

If I were Kirk Ferentz...I'd be a WHOLE lot richer... But besides that minor point, if I were the Captain or a member of his defense, I'd be quietly working 48 hours a day to make sure Northwestern NEVER beats Iowa again on my watch.

Game plan for Persa now. Keep revising and tweaking until kickoff. Persa is a terrific athlete and someone you'd love to see in Black and Gold, so give him the respect he deserves and shut him down. Offense, run the ball and run it some more. Keep Persa off the field. And when he is out there, the D has to contain rather than rush.

2010 was full of bitter defeats, but anytime Iowa loses a FB game to NW, it is bitterest of all. That MUST end in 2011.

 

[herky01]

No they shouldn't be our rival. They are a small private school that charges ballpark 40k a year in tuition and they wear purple. They schedule classes at 9 in the morning on Saturdays in the fall and people go to them. They should, at best, be Illinois' rival. Not ours. They play in a crappy stadium and have terrible facilities. The talent of the young ladies in Evanston is nowhere near IC because the academic standards are too high, Evanston's like Champaign, but uglier in terms of the gals in the student bodies (the young moms driving the BMW SUVs are a different story though - they all went to Northern Illinois, Iowa or Illinois State and married some deep pocketed north shore guy from Northwestern). There is NO reason those clowns should be anywhere near us. And no, us beating PSU a lot has nothing to do with it, we are closer to PSU than Northwestern is to us in terms of skill and facilities. No fellas, Kirk Ferentz is on the take. There's no other way to explain it.

Good analysis, especially about the MILFs in the BMW SUVs...

 

[PJHawk]

You just had to respond, huh. I was so close to coming back full circle in my hatred for Northwestern, so close, and then you just had to be an a-hole. Must fight urge to turn against Hawkfan again...

I've always wanted to post one of these.

 

[edr247]

If I were Kirk Ferentz...I'd be a WHOLE lot richer... But besides that minor point, if I were the Captain or a member of his defense, I'd be quietly working 48 hours a day to make sure Northwestern NEVER beats Iowa again on my watch.

Game plan for Persa now. Keep revising and tweaking until kickoff. Persa is a terrific athlete and someone you'd love to see in Black and Gold, so give him the respect he deserves and shut him down. Offense, run the ball and run it some more. Keep Persa off the field. And when he is out there, the D has to contain rather than rush.

2010 was full of bitter defeats, but anytime Iowa loses a FB game to NW, it is bitterest of all. That MUST end in 2011.

Persa's not the reason we lose to jNW. Persa represents just one incarnation in the Wildcat's recent line of QBs who've outwitted and outsmarted Iowa's defenses. The Northwestern team, as a whole, plans for the Iowa game. Not going to say it's their Superbowl or anything like that, but Barnett and Fitzgerald see Iowa as a team they need to be able to beat in order to break it to the upper level of the conference.

Like Persa said before (or perhaps it was after) the Iowa game, Iowa is easy to prepare for. The Wildcats know exactly what we're going to do on offense and defense, and they work around that. They take what the defense gives them, and combine that with some luck to beat us. Their offense dinks and dunks down the field, and their QB buys time with his feet. It's pretty predictable, actually, yet Iowa manages to be baffled by it year after year.

 

[Billso]

I saw some NU kids at CVS yesterday and the inability to speak the English language that I observed when I took Human Sexuality whilst in LS at Iowa seems to have permeated NU as well. This "dude" was talking to some gal and he must have said "like" 20 times in the one minute he stood in line behind me. I used to run a "like-o-meter" in that Human Sexuality class and the most I heard were just over 100 misused "likes" over the course of the class - this fella would have, like totally like shattered that like record. A university the caliber of Northwestern should require an interview and if some kid can't spit out two sentences in a row without throwing "like" between every other word, he ought to just go straight to Starbucks.

Hmm. Maybe they should refine their derisive home-game cheer to "Go to, like, a real school! Go to, like, a real school!"

Back on topic, I am glad Persa is doing well. I'd like to beat Northwestern 64-0 as much as the next guy, but I never hope for an injury like that to an opposing player. And the %#&^*# suffered it on the game-winning play, as well.