Thursday night's post-practice
The defense controlled both sessions of today's practice, and it did not end well for the offense as Kevin Craft was intercepted twice in 11-on-11 contact drills. Still, his knowledge of the offense and propensity to make fewer mistakes than Chris Forcier keeps him ahead in the quarterback derby.
And what would a practice be at this point without another injury (or three)? Tight end Logan Paulsen left the field after getting slammed to the turf by linebacker Akeem Ayers. Paulsen banged the back of his head on the turf, and may have suffered a concussion. More should be known Friday.
Also, backup linebacker Steve Sloan was slowed by an ankle injury.
UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel also said receivers Taylor Embree (shoulder) and Gavin Ketchum (shoulder) would be out for about week, meaning both will miss Saturday's scrimmage.
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This is Brian Dohn's sixth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
Brilliant. As if we don't have enough injuries already. We do not need our guys getting hurt by a team mate trying to show how tough he is. That is really stupid.
At the rate we're going, every one on the roster is going to be injured by the time the Tennessee game rolls around. Should we just forfeit the game? Hell, should we just forfeit the season? This is ridiculous. I thought the new strength and conditioning procedure was supposed to help reduce the number of injuries we're sustaining. If anything, we have more injuries this year than we did last year at this point in time.
stop crying ladies, this isn't flag football. Did you think that players play 100% healthy throughout the entire season? Stop whining and pretend like you've got a pair.
I say give Prince a shot!
I agree with miguelito. There will always be injuries and of course none of us like it but it is what it is!
Just support our Bruins! Beat the Vols.
Injuries are part of the game, and if you pay attention to the sport wire you will see every team is getting racked up. Things wont get better until we have more quality depth. If you are two deep with 4 start recruits, like OSU, LSU, USC injuries do not have a profound impact.
Akeem Ayers is plenty tough and it didn't appear to be his intent in injuring Logan. Just football. Just like it's football when Logan smashed Brandon last year. Things happen.
A positive I find, is that we have some very physical players on D. Akeem is one, both Bosworths, Brian Price, Glenn Love is a load, and then there is Brigham. I don't want to see our DBs taking shots at the offense but you wonder which of the freshmen DBs can deliver the hit. I guess we'll find out on 9/1.