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TS is going to do a weekly blog for Ferman this season. Today is the first installment and he talks about his injury, rehab and how he realized he had to change the way he ate and took care of his body and how it has been with the new coaching staff.
@Cribby - you mentioned numerous times TS was playing hurt.... Here's what he said about the injury:
"I hurt it the Georgia Tech game. I made a tackle, then I came down on it. That’s when the running back 27 broke. When I swiped at his feet I kind of landed funny and that’s when it all happened. I finished that game and the next few games afterward before I actually got an MRI on it.
I actually said something about it afterward and we took the simple approach like `Maybe you didn’t do anything.’ Rehab it, no contact, simple things like that just to make sure. Is it hurting? We need to hold off and let it heal or did you really hurt it? That was the line we were playing in for a few weeks. Thought maybe it was something that bad that it would cause me to get surgery.
It’s football, so I thought just maybe I fell kind of funny, I wasn’t supposed to fall that way, stuff like that. After a week, two weeks it was still that lingering feeling, actually getting worse. So I thought I actually kind of messed myself up this time.
It turns out I tore my labrum, couple of ligaments. Had to get my collarbone shaved off, it was poking."
He also talks about the coaching change and how it's been with the new staff:
"The previous coaches, of course I felt bad what happened to them. But just being in college so long I realize this world is a business, and a business decision happens every day in the world. You can’t get so upset about it, can’t dwell on it. Everything happens for a reason.
I felt great about the new coaches. Once I met them, they’re putting out energy, are repeating the same mottos they are putting out today. I was very excited to meet them, and for them to be the same people they were from Day 1 is even better.
And Coach Addae coaching the DBs, he’s great. He’s the first DB coach I had in college who will actually take the time out to break a play completely down if you don’t understand it. He’s a great coach, very, very enthusiastic and emotional when it comes to this. Because he wants his guys to win. Sometimes I just go in his office, kick it, `How you doing coach?’ Just have a conversation. We came from Georgia, talk about some of my old friends who went to the league, friends that transferred other places. We just kick it as player/coach sometimes. The majority of the time is strictly business, though, we’re always talking football."
On Mario:
"We all are embracing what coach Cristobal is doing here."
"He makes sure the coaches put it on us, makes sure he pushes on us that this is what he does, this is what he loves. And how you do anything is how you do everything. He hasn’t let up off that one bit.
He’s real big on he wants us to know why we do certain stuff or why he made this certain decision. He lets us know he’s working so he can make sure all of us have better opportunities at this University, walkon or not. He works early mornings to late nights and it’s all for us. I definitely do appreciate that. Just having a head coach that’s down to do anything, that’s down to make sure he can do whatever he can as an individual to make sure I have one of the best futures after leaving here is just amazing. It gives a little more love and gives me a little bit more effort because I know my coach is giving me the same energy back."
@Cribby - you mentioned numerous times TS was playing hurt.... Here's what he said about the injury:
"I hurt it the Georgia Tech game. I made a tackle, then I came down on it. That’s when the running back 27 broke. When I swiped at his feet I kind of landed funny and that’s when it all happened. I finished that game and the next few games afterward before I actually got an MRI on it.
I actually said something about it afterward and we took the simple approach like `Maybe you didn’t do anything.’ Rehab it, no contact, simple things like that just to make sure. Is it hurting? We need to hold off and let it heal or did you really hurt it? That was the line we were playing in for a few weeks. Thought maybe it was something that bad that it would cause me to get surgery.
It’s football, so I thought just maybe I fell kind of funny, I wasn’t supposed to fall that way, stuff like that. After a week, two weeks it was still that lingering feeling, actually getting worse. So I thought I actually kind of messed myself up this time.
It turns out I tore my labrum, couple of ligaments. Had to get my collarbone shaved off, it was poking."
He also talks about the coaching change and how it's been with the new staff:
"The previous coaches, of course I felt bad what happened to them. But just being in college so long I realize this world is a business, and a business decision happens every day in the world. You can’t get so upset about it, can’t dwell on it. Everything happens for a reason.
I felt great about the new coaches. Once I met them, they’re putting out energy, are repeating the same mottos they are putting out today. I was very excited to meet them, and for them to be the same people they were from Day 1 is even better.
And Coach Addae coaching the DBs, he’s great. He’s the first DB coach I had in college who will actually take the time out to break a play completely down if you don’t understand it. He’s a great coach, very, very enthusiastic and emotional when it comes to this. Because he wants his guys to win. Sometimes I just go in his office, kick it, `How you doing coach?’ Just have a conversation. We came from Georgia, talk about some of my old friends who went to the league, friends that transferred other places. We just kick it as player/coach sometimes. The majority of the time is strictly business, though, we’re always talking football."
On Mario:
"We all are embracing what coach Cristobal is doing here."
"He makes sure the coaches put it on us, makes sure he pushes on us that this is what he does, this is what he loves. And how you do anything is how you do everything. He hasn’t let up off that one bit.
He’s real big on he wants us to know why we do certain stuff or why he made this certain decision. He lets us know he’s working so he can make sure all of us have better opportunities at this University, walkon or not. He works early mornings to late nights and it’s all for us. I definitely do appreciate that. Just having a head coach that’s down to do anything, that’s down to make sure he can do whatever he can as an individual to make sure I have one of the best futures after leaving here is just amazing. It gives a little more love and gives me a little bit more effort because I know my coach is giving me the same energy back."