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Spring practice open dates announced
Posted by HenryJames on February 5th, 2010 under Football
There will be open practices on March 2nd and 8th, both starting at 4pm at Denius. The Orange-White game will be April 4th.
Now some bad news. Mason Walters will miss the spring after having surgery on his left foot. I was hoping he would have taken the left tackle spot, but now we’re pretty much fucked.
Nolan Brewster will also miss the spring while recovering from shoulder surgery. So Blake Gideon will continue to start alongside (hopefully) Christian Scott. I can’t imagine they’d put all three at the same spot. Maybe Ben Wells will make some noise.
And Emmanuel Acho will be limited after surgery to repair a sports hernia. You can bet he’ll be full speed by the time Jordan Hicks and Tevin Jackson show up on campus.
Marquise Goodwin will focus entirely on track the spring.
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BatesHorn said:
February 5th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
What the hell happened with Walters? How did they not get him under the knife in the fall and get him rehabbing?
HenryJames said:
February 5th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
I’m guessing that they thought he would be able to recover without surgery.
Cueball said:
February 5th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Is he expected back by September?
Scipio Tex said:
February 5th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Mason Walters may have Bill Walton’s feet.
NY Horn said:
February 5th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Will our offensive line ever be a strength for this team with the current coaches in charge? How much is Mack willing to let this hinder his program before he does something?
HenryJames said:
February 5th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
That’s what I’d like to know about it.
Blueshorn said:
February 5th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
How much is Mack willing to let this hinder his program before he does something?
Well, he’s let Greg Davis hinder it for twelve years, so that should buy McWhorter a few more.
il_Cativo said:
February 5th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
I for one sure bought into the line that the breaking point for Mack is public embarrassment, and that he was so embarrassed by the o-line’s performance against Nebraska, that changes would be made.
The Tortilla Retort — Blog — Horns Lose Mason Walters for Spring said:
February 5th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
[...] Barking Carnival reports Frenship native Mason Walters will miss spring practice after undergoing foot surgery. [...]
HenryJames said:
February 5th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
The line played a lot better against Alabama, but my long term hopes for them are not good.
Anthony Munoz said:
February 5th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Man, I hope Garrett Porter, Allen, Mitchell or somebody – ANYBODY steps up. I don’t want GG’s progressions to include a quick peek over the left shoulder. Some suckage at LT could really hinder the kids progress…
Blueshorn said:
February 5th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
…and that he was so embarrassed by the o-line’s performance against Nebraska, that changes would be made.
He was saved by Hunter Lawrence. Mack only gets embarrassed when he loses.
Burnt Orange Wookiee said:
February 5th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
I’m not sure if you’re joking about the Walton comparison, Scipio, but I have already worried about that more and more with every announcement that something is wrong with his feet…
Newy25 said:
February 5th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Our line’s issues have little to do with available talented players. We have recruited outrageously well here for several years running.
CrazyJoeDavola66 said:
February 5th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Well, we’ve recruited OK there, but when you lose (hopefully temporarily) your by-far best guy to Yaoitis and another to Facebookococcus and another to a life-threatening, previously hidden heart condition, and a couple of guys to general dumb-assedness, I think that mitigates at least a little of the criticism directed at the OL development.
But only a little.
Still, that’s approaching TE level of rotten fucking luck.
texastough said:
February 5th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
“by-far best guy to Yaoitis and another to Facebookococcus and another to a life-threatening, previously hidden heart condition”
Hopefully the medical students are busy working on a cure for gynecomastia that somehow afflicted the rest.
Scipio Tex said:
February 5th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
I’m not joking. Some people don’t have a foot structure that can support big weight and running. So you get a life of microfractures.
eloy said:
February 5th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
“I’m not joking. Some people don’t have a foot structure that can support big weight and running. So you get a life of microfractures.”
Look at Yao Ming, big ass dude is always messing up his feet. I have always thought he was too big for a Chinaman.
cincinnatus said:
February 5th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
The Orange-White game will be April 4th.
My coach, my coach, why hast thou foresaken me?
If we insist on playing the Spring Game on Easter Sunday, I am taking the money line on Baylor next November. The Big Guy has a vengeful side and a perverse sense of humor.
whoopspat said:
February 5th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
This was posted on shaggybevo back around the time Walters’ injury was announced:
“So I saw Mason on campus today…. He was on the phone so we did not speak (he was my brother’s center for 2 years in hs)… but he was wearing a plaster cast up to the bottom of his knee, and was completely on crutches…. I mentioned this to my dad back in Wolfforth, and he immediately called Mason’s dad. His dad said that he had a stress fracture, and that his dad and Mason had requested the full plaster cast… (a little background, Mason has suffered this exact same injury while playing basketball in high school, he wore a “boot” for 4 weeks, and it never healed [too much motion in the boot] and wore the plaster cast for 2 weeks and was ready to play again)… Mason’s dad did mention the possibility of a medical redshirt, “if” it was that serious…. But that they were taking this day to day, and were taking x-rays about every 4 days to monitor his progress… after 2 weeks, if progress is shown, the cast will be off (but possibly sooner)…. They are very eager to get him back on the field, and Mason would play with the cast on if they would let him… “
Mysterious Package said:
February 5th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Why did he not have surgery when they found out he wasn’t available for the NC game?
nordberg said:
February 5th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
It was known he was going to miss the rest of the season by mid-October.
Barking Carnival — Blog — Did we get any left tackles in that recruiting class? said:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
[...] as HenryJames has already pointed out here Nolan Brewster, Emmanuel Acho and Mason Walters are out for spring practice and there are some [...]
CloseToJumping said:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Mason Walters had Ben Alexander or someone like him completely collapse on top of his foot/ankle structure while he was planted and engaged blocking another player and lower leg was simply crushed. It’s hardly a situation of a guy’s size not being supported by his lower leg joints. It’s like blaming someone’s birthday on the fact that a piano fell on them. Bad luck happens.
Walters was going to play insider anyway.
Britt Mitchell will be our starting RT next year. Britt Mitchell. This is the worst OL we’ve had here in over a decade and it isn’t all on bad luck. We have recruited like idiots on the OL for a while now and the staff has no real plan for what they want. This year, there is a plethora of available OTs. They should take 3, especially if they can get Westerman. Take him, Cochran, and Greenlea. Let the best two win.
This 2010 OL is the precise reason why this 2010 team’s highest end performance will be 10-3. I am rooting for it. The scheme blows and is the driver for our lack of credibility at this point in recruiting OLs, but at some point, a coach needs to make lemonade out of lemons or get the fuck out of the program. McWhorter isn’t the problem, but he isn’t part of the solution. At this time, the OL recruiting is catching up to us. The OL this year will be:
Hix, Allen, Snow, Huey, Mitchell
Hix, Snow and Huey have had the anger, if any existed, coached out of them. They play soft and confused. Allen is one of the most misused players in the Mack Brown era. He should have been redshirted at some point. Maybe he can finally flourish at a stable position. He still has the talent. If he did, it would certainly help silence Mom a bit. That is a negative force with a legitimate beef about the OL recruiting and coaching and it isn’t pretty. And with Mitchell, you have Trey Bates starting. Light the cigarette.
CloseToJumping said:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Walters, like any whistleblower, can always play “insider” but I meant “inside”. It would be hard for him to blow the whistle on our OL coaching and scheming sucking, as it’s a public given.
Newy25 said:
February 6th, 2010 at 4:05 am
CTJ-
The line you just listed consists of 4 National 100, All American recruits. And if you saw Mitchell play in high school as a blocking TE you would have seen a white boy with a serious case of red ass that liked to pancake people. Blue chip talent is not the issue. We have to get more out of what we have and simply singing more will not do us any good.
If we don’t change scheme next year will be more of the same: pretty good pass blocking with horrendous run blocking. We will then ask Boom to simply hold everyone in conference under 17 points again.
But Mack Brown SWEARS that this year he is making blocking and running the primary goal of the Spring!
This time he means it. Really. No joke.
hopefulhorn said:
February 6th, 2010 at 7:33 am
Groundhog Day. How long, O Lord?
j.r.69 said:
February 6th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Wagon wheel effect.