Alabama players weren't even dirty after the Texas game. The Tide's cleaners only had to wash one guy's clothes: 
Posted on 01/09/2010 5:26:32 PM PST by BenLurkin
On instant replay, even the announcers thought Colt McCoy's injury didn't seem bad.
"We call it a brachial plexus stretch," said Dr. TO Souryal of Texas Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Group. While he hasn't personally examined Colt McCoy, he has seen similar shoulder injuries plenty of times as the Dallas Mavericks team doctor for 18 years.
"When you hit your funny bone, imagine how that feels for the first few seconds,” he said. “Well, there is a large group of nerves that goes between the neck and the shoulder, and when you stretch those nerves, like hitting your funny bone, you get the same exact sensation which is described as a burner or a stinger."
Souryal said while so-called "stingers" or "dead arm syndrome" can last for hours or days, they usually resolve more quickly without treatment.
The injury cannot be seen on an x-ray. That might explain why the Texas Longhorns never made an official announcement about McCoy's injury and why the quarterback returned to the sidelines midgame fully suited.
"He still had his pads on in the second half," the doctor said. "I suspect that they were waiting for the nerves to come back, and ultimately, they never did."
Souryal said had McCoy tried to play without feeling in his arm, he might have risked a more serious injury.
"He could have aggravated the condition and instead of taking a short time for recovery, it might have taken a long time for recovery," he said.
Sideline medical decision making is a constant debate of risk versus reward.
"I can assure you that this decision (to take McCoy out of the game) would not have been difficult week two of the season,” Souryal said. “This is a decision where you're saying, 'You're not coming back no matter what happens.' But in the national championship game, this was a very difficult decision for everybody to make.
"He may have wanted to go back into the game. His dad may have wanted him to go back into the game. Coach Mac may have wanted him to go back in the game, but if the nerves are not back, the doctors won't let him," Souryal said.
Thanks for doctors who put the well being of the player first.
A serious injury, and it may take months for nerve damage to repair.
The staff did the only thing reasonable by not putting him back in the game.
Local talk is the kid was fine to go back in and the dad pulled the plug because he’s gonna be an nfl star ya know.
I think this is all monday morning QB to save face. JMO
The kid was just scared. The SEC hits *hard*.
“I wanted to play,” Willis Reed recalls. “That was for the championship, the one great moment you play for all your life. I didn’t want to have to look at myself in the mirror 20 years later and say I wished I had tried to play.”
I’m an Alabama fan but I felt sorry for the kid. This was the big one and to go out right at the first of the game I’m sure was heartbreaking for him.
He couldn't throw the football 20-25 feet accurately....He tried multiple times...and couldn't do it.
I took my Grandsons to a Church Youth Retreat a couple of years ago. Colt was the featured speaker. This kid is what I want my grandsons to grow to. Not an athlete, but a REAL man, Godly and all.
Colt McCoy is a good quarterback ... and a fine young man. But I predict that Jevan Snead (?) of Ole Miss (who has declared for the NFL draft) will be drafted ahead of Colt McCoy. McCoy beat out Snead several years for the quarterback position at texas university and Snead transferred to Ole Miss. But Snead shows more “killer instinct” than does McCoy (so does Jerrod Johnson of Texas A&M). It takes that kind of attitude rather than McCoy’s more docile manner to succeed in the NFL. McCoy’s statistics are as good as they are because of the team around him. (Yes, I’m a fan of Texas A&M.)
Yep, you're right, the winningest QB in NCAA history has no competitive or "killer instinct"....LMAO at the ignorance. Mel Kiper has Colt listed as the #1 senior QB going into the draft. Do you really think that if McCoy could have been on that field helping his team he would choose not to...pleez....the kid has lived for that moment since he was ten. Now enjoy watching him from your BarcaLounger on Sundays...LOL
Oh pleez....Colt has been hit a lot harder than that on his way to being the winningest QB in NCAA history....that was simply a freak injury at a terribly inopportune time. I've never seen Colt come out of a game. You SEC homers should just be glad that freak injury happened....otherwise Texas would have rolled the Tide. Jordan Shipley had 10 catches for 120 yards and two touchdowns with a Freshman, second string QB throwing to him....he was a man among boys in the Alabama secondary. He was toying with the alabama DBs. If Colt had played the whole game his rommmate Shipley would have had 250 yards and a bunch of TDs and the Tide fans would be crying in their beer.
Agreed
I read your first sentence as 'he tried to throw his dad under the stands'....
..and went on a rabbit trail of why would he do that....
If, if, if...
Oh please. Look, Colt ran away scared. You wouldn’t have won with him in the game or not, anyway. Colt couldn’t punch it in and had to settle for a field goal.
At least your Freshman replacement could get it into the end zone.
I will agree that Shipley is the real deal, though.
But in general, Texas was too weak to even cause Bama to *think* about throwing deep. Bama’s weapons like Julio Jones didn’t even have to be used.
Alabama’s 2nd string running back went up the middle for two touchdowns against the Longhorn defense.
Alabama coasted the entire game. Y’all never even made us break a sweat. We weren’t even dirty after the game. We looked like we had on new uniforms even after playing on grass all night.
We were calling linebacker blitzes...didn’t even need corner and safety blitzes.
We ran up the middle without even bothering to fake a pass.
Yawn.
Alabama beat 4 top ten teams this season...Texas was one of 3 of those teams that Bama beat by double digits.
Not even a close game. Taking a knee at the end. Didn’t have to bother calling time outs.
Heck, Bama could spot Texas a Nebraska extra second and y’all still wouldn’t have made the game competitive.
Y’all had better learn how to protect your next QB, too. If you can.
Congratulations to ‘Bama on the win....but like I said, count your blessings that Colt got the freak injury. Otherwise, you would be looking at #3 behind Boise State. LOL. And you Tide fans know it....you just want to put on the false arrogance to mask what you know is true. Why the heck do you bring up Julio Jones? He’s not even the best receiver on your team this year and couldn’t hold Jordan Shipley’s jock as a receiver. And your “second string” running back is probably better than your false Heisman winner. The best running back in the country played for Stanford this year. But I guess the “his father’s in jail” is a better story line for the MSM than he’s a real scholar-athlete at Stanford. The way Brent Mushburger was going on and on about Ingram’s father you would have thought it was some sort of badge of honor.....my how the times have changed since I grew up in America.
Alabama players weren't even dirty after the Texas game. The Tide's cleaners only had to wash one guy's clothes:
Local talk by a bunch of drunk armchair QB’s?
I've done the same....
FRegards,
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