I mean it’s not like it’s his first game. It will be fine. But damn that sucks… hopefully that lowered the NIL price cuz dude wasn’t getting drafted high especially with injury… teams catch those things
*****Mark Gronowski COMMITS to IOWA but Needs Surgery. Won't begin on-field team workouts until June*****
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do you think its something "simple?" KF made it seem like it was not a huge issue
Let's see. January surgery. Needs rehabbing. Doesn't sound like a big deal. 🙄
I agree it would have been better for BF to have gotten an OC position elsewhere, but bringing back O'Keefe was how Kirk tried to help Brian - and the Hawks offense - be successful. Unfortunately, even five years of O'Keefe's mentorship was insufficient.
Agreed that not everything bad that happened was BF's fault, but a good portion of it was, and at some point that distinction doesn't matter. Ultimately it's his job to make the offense successful and he couldn't get it done.
So an injury that won't heal until June is suppose to be no big deal. It looks more like "here we go again."
I hate 9 page 329 post threads where the title keeps changing🤷♂️
I gotta say Gronowski must have a ton of confidence in himself or he was given some false promises to come to Iowa knowing he would miss the spring. It shocks me he would come into a position where the current QB has maybe 10 BCS starts and has a lot of promise as a starter and will have been in the system two years. I would think he would really need to turn some heads in the fall to beat out Sully. 🤷♂️
Makes you wonder what the "common football-related injury" might be that needs rebab, where he's not 100% until June.
From KF's statement:
Mark played last season with a common football-related injury. While he could have continued to play through the injury, Mark is choosing to have a procedure to address the issue.
I wonder if/when the boosters spending all of this "NIL" money eventually say, "enough; I'm out."
The moment we think Lester has pulled us out of that hole BF dug for us, something like this gets announced....
Do we know it won't heal until June? Could it be it won't be healed in time for spring ball, then they don't have workouts again until June?
Not sure about exact timeline but it appears he definitely won't be ready for spring practices and the spring game.
IDK... I don't see a statement where it said SWARM knew. But maybe I'm missing it
One guarantee is that this is cannon fodder for the hater "fans" who give nothing.
Man, you are fitting the stereotype I laid out in that other thread to a T on SWARM members from TOS.
Incision, tissue or other work done, stitches, that sounds like 2 months just to start using the offending body part. That means mid March. June is pretty soon after that
they better had told the big donors who are paying whatever Mark is getting
but nothing was said to the "other donors," when Brad made an online appeal BEFORE Mark had committed, where Brad was asking people to join and donate to SWARM
What gives me hope is that Lester still wanted Mark even though an optional procedure will be done
Seriously though. He could turn out fine, but how desperate is this program to take this kind of risk after the last debacle?
Guess we need to read Gronowski’s full Tweet:
“I’m excited to announce that I will be transferring to the University of Iowa Hospital “
“I’m excited to announce that I will be transferring to the University of Iowa Hospital “
Cannon fodder? How bout reality? How the f*** do you buy a beat up used car, get burned by it... and then do it again?
How do you not do your homework on this? So he’s missing the entire Spring (huge) and then half the Summer. Oh, and he’s never played in this offense. Just absolutely unbelievable I hope we gave him at least a million to maybe never be healthy.
From Kirk's statement, they knew about his health.
“Mark played last season with a common football-related injury. While he could have continued to play through the injury, Mark is choosing to have a procedure to address the issue, and we support him in his decision.
Our sports medicine team thoroughly reviewed his records and has confidence he will be fully rehabbed in time to participate in our summer program. Mark will participate in all non-practice team activities while he recovers.”
I don’t care about non practice activities. If he’s not out there working with the receivers and learning the offense this does shit for us.
agreed; he need reps before spring, during spring (with coaches) and during the summer.
I’m guessing it’s something with a low complication rate for surgery. And something that they don’t think will affect his ability. I’m not gonna guess what it is but it still sucks. I do think the injury would have messed with his ability to show his skills in pre draft events so coming back was a good option for him and it was prolly beneficial to us. He prolly would have went in the draft if he wasn’t injured, who knows tho
hope you are right.
i am guessing this is why it took so long for the official announcement that he was committed (how much money was probably an issue based on an upcoming surgery)
As long as Lester is comfortable with the 6 person QB room, I am. He's gotta make it work; hopefully he does.
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