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[QUOTE="SUDadx2, post: 4374082, member: 8174"]
These guys, especially guys like GS, haven’t been 100% since the day before camp opened in early August.

Before Purdue he was sick.  Sick enough to miss practice(s).   And he’s been in a boot on campus since Purdue.

[B]We don’t know what we don’t know.   [/B]   But it’s funny how much we think we know.

Most people have no idea what these guys go through to prepare themselves to play this game. 
 
What do we know?

We know this game and the subsequent bye week are coming at a great time.

For seven weeks starting on October 15th these young men will engage in a violently physical challenge weekly against other world class athletes.  The type of violently physical challenged that most on this board have never experienced first-hand.

We have already lost three starters for the season.  We may lose more (I pray not).  But football players play.  They play because they love it.  They don’t sit out when they get an owie.  Part of the conditioning that is required to play this game at the level these young men play is the mental conditioning that is needed to play hurt, and to know the difference between being hurt and being injured.

Thank goodness for all of the tape, braces and boots these guys wear to get them from one day to the next.

And, thank goodness for the trainers who start their day before any player arrives and is usually at the facility until after every player has gone for the day.

I pray everyone stays healthy and those that aren’t, get healthy.
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