Cam Rising seen in Splint yesterday signing autographs

This^ has been and will continue to be my position on this going back to 2023 till now.

Everyone is toeing Whitt’s company line to their own peril.

Especially in this age of toxic social media, there’s so many fans who are keyboard doctors and judges of character/intent. And then the players have a old school coach with a very hardline rule on injuries. So they can’t defend themselves. Whitt said yesterday “I’m not on social media. So I don’t know anything about this backlash to Cam.” 1. I don’t believe that 2. If somehow that’s true, he needs to accept the reality and time we live in. Because it is unfair to the athletes.

Same exact comments as last year and no true improvement. Whitt fails to field a serious backup with all the time in the world to do so. Two years in a row. There’s probably no other program in the land that wouldn’t have their head coach in the hot seat for this. YOU. CAN’T. HAVE. NO. QUARTERBACK. IN. FOOTBALL. There is no greater positional f**kup in this sport

This extremely uncontroversial and obvious fact is either eluding Whitt’s ability to recognize it or ability remedy it and it doesn’t matter which because both are pathetic.

This is why some form of transparency to the fan base would go a long way in setting realistic expectations for the remainder of this season. If Cam can’t play, then he can’t simple as that. Then we know Wilson is our guy and we are going to get freshman mistakes to go along with all of the upside that he brings to the table.

Having Cam dressed on the sideline last week probably did little to Arizona’s defensive plans. It did however, set the potential expectation that if the 1st half didn’t go so well on offense that maybe Cam could give it a go in the second half. With the injury being maybe more severe than was let on, that wasn’t going to happen.

I still would have been disappointed in the offense outcome of the game and the loss, but I would have been a lot more understanding knowing that Wilson or maybe Rose were our only true options for the game, and maybe even for the next several games of the season.

I put this on during a break so maybe more doomy than I meant; to be fair there are a few more minor things it could be as well. If he did have only a deep laceration in a volar crease the therapist could have them in flexion to help healing. I’ve certainly done that before, I’ve seen heavy scabbing in some wounds last for 6+ weeks. Usually when I make those splints though, its for a dislocation with some level of instability; volar plate sprain or tendon disruption.

Lets say it was a dislocation – he could be fully stable at 30 degrees of flexion to full flexion and could be released by his provider to play with splints protecting him from extending fully. but he would still have some level of swelling and pain. If this was the case I would not expect him to feel 100%

This is an overreaction imo. The only team that can realistically beat us is TCU, but they let SMU score like 66 on them. The same SMU that barely beat Nevada and scored like 15 points on BYU.

We get a bye week to heal up and prepare for ASU. They have to play Kansas this week.

Houston is REALLY bad. We are not losing to them lol.

If he doesn’t come back until Houston or BYU, we could definitely have a second loss and we likely wouldn’t control our own destiny at that point.

Where do you see he had surgery on it?

That’s the weird thing. From what I’ve read, he’s been medically cleared to play since before the OK ST game. So, he can play but hasn’t because he’s not able to get any zip on the ball.

Yeah but a player can be cleared to play with a giant cast on his hand.

My expectations just lowered to a 8-4 season

I never heard or saw “index finger.” It was always the middle finger(s).

My info was index finger and I shared in a post here. My info was wrong.

Honestly, and it pains me to say it, I’ll be happy when Cam Rising is no longer wearing a Utah uniform. I’ve been following football for 50 years and in all of that time I’ve never been exposed to a situation as surreal as how Utah manages its QB room.

Being cleared to play and throwing the ball effectively are two different things.

You think the doctors are opining on Cam’s velocity and spin rate?

Stop fixating on doctor clearance as if it’s the end all, be all. It isn’t in this case.

We have been literally armchair quarterbacking Cam Rising like we are capable of throwing a football to tight windows minus full function of two fingers on a throwing hand. Seriously, what the hell do we even begin to know about this matter. Nothing.