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Arizona football injury update

by on Nov. 23, 2009, under Sports

Arizona starting running back Nic Grigsby, who has been battling a shoulder injury for most of the Pac-10 season, is out for this week’s game at Arizona State, coach Mike Stoops said during his weekly Monday news conference.

What’s more, backup running back Keola Antolin, who offers some of the big-play potential that Grigsby has, is questionable because of a shoulder injury that forced him out early in the second quarter of last Saturday’s game against Oregon. Antolin, however, was asked Monday about that, and he said, “I didn’t know that until right now.”

Antolin still has to be further examined before a decision is made.

Arizona likely will be down to third-stringer Greg Nwoko and fourth-stringer Nick Booth.

“It has hurt us,” offensive coordinator Sonny Dykes said, talking about dealing with chronic injuries to Grigsby and Antolin through the Pac-10 schedule. “We’ve not had as many big plays as we’re used to having around here.”

Also, slot receiver David Douglas is out for this week because of a thigh injury, Stoops said.

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  • hermtownhomy

    You forgot this injury report…
    http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/ducks_cheerleader_knocked_out.html
    Maybe someone should warn the ASU cheerleaders what’s in store for them if they should happen to win.
    Losers.

  • 1AtATime…’N'CatsTakeState!

    I’m sorry Anthony but a much better question, or line of questioning, posed to Dykes, if not Stoops or Foles, might’ve centered on what went down 1st and 10 from the UO 30, 4 minutes to go, Foles & Arizona with the ball and up 7. 

    Killing game time with play clock on 1st down with that much time left and so much on the line leaves a lot be desired.

    I’m no QB or Offensive Coordinator I know, and yet I would never think to do that.

    The Cardinal and Navy might as well have thrown in the towel, waived the white flag, given up right then and there.

    When you’re in that situation and you’re champion caliber you put your foot to the throat of your opponent.

    But if we’re not going to get that then I’ll just say how is it that UO RB LaMichael James, 5-8, 190 lbs. (when sopping wet with sweat and downing bananas and milk while on the scale), freshman can run wild all over the vaunted Coach Mark D, and yet with all those bruisers taking shots at him he can escape with no more than perhaps a bruise or two?

     

    • Anthony Gimino

      1AtATime…
       
      No need to be sorry. Dykes and Foles and Stoops did talk about that today. Dykes said the same plays they were running early in the game they were running late in the game.
       
      What happened on first down, Foles said, was that he let the clock run down too far and then tried to change the play, which caused confusion … and a lost-yardage play. Mike Stoops said the third down play when Foles went deep into the end zone wasn’t necessarily designed to do that, but Foles thought he had it.
       
      In fact, Stoops said Terrell had the corner beat, but the safety was able to recover and make the interception because the tight end didn’t draw him far enough to the other side of the field.  The safety made a nice play.
       
      That whole series was critical and things went wrong and it set the table for Oregon to come back, but it’s not as simple as just bad play-calling. It rarely is.

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