Yes. From my experience, a labrum is pretty rough and worse. With rehab though he can be good to go and at least make it through the year. He’s been working hard from what I have seen to get going. And yeah, if it isn’t a labrum and he got it corrected, it’d be bad to speculate. It could’ve been something more minor that was just nagging, but he’s had time to recover.
Looks like Nick Linder is a Hoosier.....
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Are you going to post that information regarding Wilson that you claimed to have? And no, you don't need to be banned.
Since I don't go along with the crowd, I'm sure they'll be calling for me to be banned soon. I guess that's easier for them than actually providing informed postings of their own.
You actually seem a bit more controlled and measured in this current iteration, and good effort there, but the issue is much deeper than not going along with the crowd. As I said earlier, you shit on any piece of positive news about the Hoosiers, calling it "happy talk" or, inexplicably, acceptance of mediocrity. You also have an irrational obsession with trashing Fred Glass. These were common themes that you beat into the ground in your previous lives. In fact, you ultimately make the same points on every thread, irrespective of the initial topic. If you think about this rationally (and I know that's a challenge), you might conclude that posts of that nature are not going to be well-received on an IU message board.
Perhaps you should try to counter the facts I've presented with facts of your own. Unfortunately, you seem incapable of that and instead simply call for banning S to anyone who doesn't go along with the crowd.
I can tell this is an excellent pickup a guy with 26 stars in college. Plus he played St Thomas Aquinas which was a much better program than IMG Academy. Plus he played for perhaps the the best high school offensive line coach in the nation Jay Connolly. There are very few if any negatives to this
“Embracing mediocrity” is just a trite phrase.
Stop kidding yourself.
Leave the ball, will ya George?
Stop ruining threads by posting your same crybaby comments in every post.
Blah blah blah.
We get it.
You are the drunk that ruins the neighborhood bar.
Grow up.
It appears that the ball has been taken from him. One can only hope that it’s true....
Same tired act. Demanding evidence while providing absolutely none, then denying you ever posted facts after you foolishly do it for him multiple times. Trashing threads gives him some twisted sense of control in his bitter life.
Some people see the glass half empty where others sees it as half full. I think some just get their thrills off being a troll and being negative against everything IU.
I cheer for IU first but also am a fan of Canes so I know Linder situation pretty well. Besides the shoulder surgeries he isn't the best of run blockers. Things can certainly change but just because he started 25+ games at Miami don't expect an immediate starter. Have to remember he was an Al Golden recruit. Richt came in and said every position is open to competition and Nick didn't like that and quit.
Time has a way of healing not only injuries but maybe making a kid humble. Clean slate at IU but I would say cool your jets on instant starter.
Time has a way of healing not only injuries but maybe making a kid humble. Clean slate at IU but I would say cool your jets on instant starter.
At minimum, Linders background and leadership skills should enhance the uncoached summer workouts...
Sounds like a good guy. Here's hoping this move works out well for him and the team.
He should just stay on GBI where he doesn't have to re sign up every other week and he is a hero to the gap tooth IU-obsessed haters.
Interesting, thanks for the insight. Best luck to Nick as he has two great opportunities here: a clean slate on a team that desperately needs to upgrade the OL and entering one of the elite global B-Schools.
Oh yeah, by all means that shows up on film that he struggles in 1 on 1 run blocking. But it “looks” like it’s largely due to the shoulder and we don’t know the extent of the injury. Up to this point, he’s better than LittleJohn on film.
You’re also right that time changes things. LittleJohn could be better and Linder could be healed. We don’t know at this point, so I think your point is fair that it’s too early to call anyone a starter. Just based on the film I’ve seen to this point, he’s better than last years current starter, and if he’s been working out like reports say, it should be a decent competition. I think that it puts us in a better position than before for those reasons.
His illness is worsening, pulling out old screen names to go over and trash IU on gbi, and he has taken to answering his own posts with old screen names and liking his own posts with different personalities All in an effort to make it appear he has some kind of support here, truly sad, Sybil is very ill.
We don't need him to be an All-American, or even All-conference, type of player to be a big help to the OL, which is by far the weakest position group for IU this past year.
Plus, I also don't buy the idea from the poster saying he quit because he didn't like competition. That to me is just fan BS trying to get excited about a new coach laying down the law. He certainly probably lost his starting spot and if he simply didn't click with the new coaching staff, why commit to being a backup your final year if you aren't going to enjoy the experience.
Yeah. That’s interesting. I do
i agree. We don’t know his heart, or why he left. CTA had to figure that out before offering him an opportunity. And I agree that we don’t need him to be a world beater. What I saw on film was adequate, so long as the staff schemes to his stregnths and he’s made the normal improvements you’d expect from a year of training. I think the other poster was just saying that no one should anoint him the starter (which I don’t think anyone did). It’s a net positive because at worse it gives us an experienced body, at best he’s serviceable and a smart/tough player. It will be a good test to see how our offensive staff utilized the lineman in year two, because the offensive staff has no excuses now.
Well, Tennessee, UCLA, Vandy and Illinois all thought he was good enough to take a chance. Plus the explanation about how Nick lost his job isn’t accurate from what I’ve read. He started the first 9 games of 2016 (for Richt) and then injured his shoulder in November and missed the last 3 games. The kid who took his place was also #1 in spring because Nick was unavailable due to a injury. Also the OL coach said Nick would be splitting time with the other kid in 2017, Richt said he didn’t want to lose Nick as he is a good player.
Guess we’ll see this spring and fall, hope it works out for Nick and IU.
Jeez, no kidding. Haven't been on here much recently and the few threads I just checked all have the guy complaining and saying the same things over and over, on what was originally supposed to be different topics.
