Brandon Wegher Rumor Watch, Day 3: Please Come Back
by Adam Jacobi on Aug 12, 2010 8:00 AM CDT
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PrintAs you're no doubt aware, Brandon Wegher is not practicing with the Hawkeyes at this point, and though his status hasn't been publicly addressed by Kirk Ferentz, with every missed practice it seems increasingly unlikely that Wegher will suit up for Iowa in 2010.
Additionally, we've heard certain rumors that are rather unsettling about Wegher's behavior (but not in the realm of illegality or substance abuse), and our readers probably have as well. But instead of assuming the worst, let's go a different direction, and reiterate a few things that nobody is disputing:
1) Brandon Wegher is academically eligible to play this football season. He said so himself at the Iowa Media Day, none of the credible rumors we've heard suggest otherwise, and if he were academically ineligible, it certainly would have come out before now.
2) Brandon Wegher is still in Iowa City and healthy. There's some uncertainty about the level of contact Wegher has with his teammates, but look: nobody's filing a missing person report. Whether Wegher wants to contact the football team is another question entirely, but it's not like something awful has happened.
3) That all said, Brandon Wegher has not practiced with Iowa for four straight days. If he ends up leaving the Iowa program--and let's hope he doesn't--it would be silly to assume Kirk Ferentz and company didn't want him around in the first place. After all, the list of current Iowa players who could blow off 4 days of 2-a-days and not be swiftly dismissed by Ferentz is small, and Wegher has clearly demonstrated his presence on said list.
But we don't know if Wegher's on the 5-day no-show list, or the 6-day, or the 7-day. There is a limit, especially with a coach like Kirk Ferentz, and as long as Wegher's absence is voluntary (which, by all indications, is the case), he's in danger of testing that limit, with predictably dire consequences.
It's really too bad, because Wegher seemed to have as much of an advantage as anybody to be Iowa's #1 back for the upcoming season. Jewel Hampton's knee probably won't be truly 100% until the 2011 season, and there aren't many non-racists who would argue that Adam Robinson is more physically talented than Wegher.
But--and this is going to sound more smug than we mean it to be--that's just detached rationality, which everyone's happy to apply to strangers much more readily than to themselves. If something's up in Wegher's personal life--whether it be that juicy rumor you heard from a vague acquaintance or something else entirely--then he's not going to be as likely to say "but I have 125 carries waiting for me this season, so football comes first okay goodbye everybody." That's just not how 20-year-olds work, y'know?
But we digress, and at a detriment to the main point: whatever Wegher's trying to accomplish right now, if football--at Iowa or otherwise--is even remotely involved, he has got to return to practice immediately. And if he doesn't, well, lord only knows where that career goes.
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Don't go Wegher!
We want to see more Wegher Bombs and homerun runs.
This is NOT THE YEAR you want to miss out on.
Come back! Pretty please! With sugar on top!
What
rumors that are rather unsettling about Wegher’s behavior
I hadn’t heard anything about this. What is it referring to?
he's a kitten puncher
Keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either, Dude.
by AcrimoniousAngerererer on Aug 12, 2010 8:59 AM CDT up reply actions
Uff da...
I’m gonna wait till either the coaching staff or Wegher (or his relatives) say something. It’s unlikely Wegher’s going to be able to voluntarily skip out on multiple practices right before the start of the season, and still be able to play.
However, if it’s a family issue, I can see Ferentz giving him a few days off, perhaps. But if that were the case, I think Ferentz would have probably headed off the rumors by saying that Wegher had permission to take a few days off for said issues.
The fact that the coaching staff haven’t said anything, makes me think the absence may not be entirely sanctioned, if it’s been allowed at all.
Anyway, I hope he can figure out what he wants to do and make the decision soon. Not for the fans, but for his team and for himself.
by edr247 on Aug 12, 2010 9:12 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
While this whole thing sucks for pretty much everyone involved...
I’m not gonna lie: it makes me chuckle that we now have a “brandon wegher pregnant” tag.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I think now is the time to practice what Ferentz always preaches
next man in…focus on who’s here and who’s not. I agree that no matter the reason for the young man’s absence he will suffer some consequences when and if he returns. One, trust. Will the staff and KOK and KF trust him going forward. All these players have some issue or another. Why is Wegher’s worthy of special treatment? Ferentz would have to answer that question to the team if he looked the other way. Two, trust. If a guy skips out once he is always suspiciously looked at as capable of leaving his brothers at any other instance. I can see guys thinking he’s soft for not manning up and showing despite whatever is going on in his life. So at this point Ferentz has to put him at the very back of the bus when and if he returns. Wegher is now, in all liklihood and at minimum, the #4 running back behind ARob, Jewel, and Rogers. Maybe behind the PakiBomb and the Johnson kid even. And we have seen Ferentz bury guys before on principle. The early schedule allows for it no less.
I personally would be mildly surprised to see him on the field before the Big Ten season, again, if he returns. It is curiously random how we are on this Sioux City slide with players and recruits and their emotions and odd behavior and eligibility and so forth.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
Well, the answer is clear then:
We need to stop recruiting Sioux City kids.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
or more given the odds are that
we’ve cleaned out the city’s fickle star supply.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
by StoopsMyAss on Aug 12, 2010 10:16 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah.
Producing Cougill/Wegher/McCabe* in a two-year span is more talent than I can recall coming out of Sioux City in, well, ever.
*This isn’t like the celebrity death curse that always comes in threes, right? (gulp)
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
We need to stop recruiting Sioux City kids.
Tom Davis agrees.
/1998 whiner’d
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 12, 2010 4:39 PM CDT up reply actions
As I have family in Sioux City
I can tell you that a lot of them would be happy to leave Iowa and join South Dakota. Going from a relatively ignored part of a state to the second largest city in a state wouldn’t be bad.
Not paying state income taxes anymore would also not be something they would complain about.
Yes, but then they would be South Dakotans.
(shudder)
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Or Riley Reiff.
Heaven forbid, that would be terrible.
I know many South Dakotans and bear them no ill will; just having some fun.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Good lord, what would the SCJ do if they became South Dakotans?
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Aug 13, 2010 2:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Blame Lick and internet posters for the slight
Too high? What do you mean too high?
by The Bacon Explosion on Aug 13, 2010 3:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Sioux Cityans mush overcome a lot, emotionally
Just look at the We Built this City video.
Traumatic.
Whoooaaaa!
Totally agree on next man in. Now, about special treatment, skipping out, authorization, so far as I know, we still know nothing. We need to at least wait until Ferentz says whatever he says on Saturday. That could also be nothing, I know, but I think we can wait that long.
Now about Jacobi’s Adam Robinson reference. It’s not about physical talent as much as about power, size, and maybe a few other things which escape me while I’’m in a hurry here. I don’t think that many people assumed Wegher was going to be the #1 back on September 4, and maybe not #2, either. I think Robinson is ahead, has been ahead, and would always have been ahead but for the ankle injury. Jewel has his own style, and his condition is it’s own story, but I remember a lot of posts about playing Wegher in the slot becuase of a log jam of backs. Of course I want him in the mix, but IF he won’t be there, it’s not like losing Jewel last year, or Jermelle Lewis (and a subsequent cast of many) back in ’04.
Now, please excuse me while I go watch the Orange Bowl highlights again and worry about what I just tried to downlplay.
A fella steps out for a two pound burrito and all hell breaks loose.
Speaking of the Orange Bowl
You’ll recall Wegher’s 4th quarter scamper for a TD. Robinson couldn’t have made that run, Adam doesn’t have Brandon’s break away speed. Conversely, Wegher couldn’t have made Robinson’s TD run against Penn State – where he broke a few tackles and rumbled. Wegher doesn’t have Robinson’s low center of gravity and tree-trunk legs. Together, they’re a pretty nice B10 back. But really….blah blah blah. I just wanted to post so I can see my new avatar. GO RICKY…GO RICKY…..GO RICKY
At times like this...
…I wish I had never found the internet so I could just be blissfully oblivious.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 12, 2010 9:34 AM CDT reply actions
Agreed
I don’t like being toyed with. YOU HEAR ME?!
by IDontUnderStanzi on Aug 12, 2010 9:41 AM CDT up reply actions
Oddly
our friends over at Cyclone Fanatic haven’t seemed to have picked up on this story, which is quite strange…
Well...
They’re probably all paddling over to help The Mayor.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Rumor:
Flight aware shows a plane from Cedar Rapids is approaching Willow Run. Meanwhile, my buddy knows a guy who knows a guy who saw RichRod with some other, much larger guy in a small boat in the middle of Lake Huron. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here"
by ReadingRambler on Aug 12, 2010 10:12 AM CDT reply actions
You don't suppose
it’s about an upaid cable bill? Because that stuff tends to not have a happy ending.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I hate that 2002 Ohio State team.
They needed the refs to finalize an overtime win over Beutjer and Ron Turner and they won the MNC.
Gah.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here"
by ReadingRambler on Aug 12, 2010 10:20 AM CDT up reply actions
Thank you...
…that’s what I’ve been saying. Beutjer beat them three times (in a row, IIRC) and the refs didn’t see a single one of them. OSU was not the best team in the conference that year.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 12, 2010 10:25 AM CDT up reply actions
THERE IS NO CORRUPTION IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
It just looks like it. Sometimes. When elite teams keep getting fucked up calls to remain undefeated.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Like
The Indiana game, where everyone (read Iowa haters) was convinced we were getting all the calls to go our way so that we could stay undefeated?
But if that was the case, then why didn’t we get calls to go our way during the Northwestern game (the holding call that brought back a Wegher running TD, for example)?
The calls did suck, but you all know what after the last of the bad calls, IU still tacked on a field goal and had a two score lead.
And then they choked. So, the difference is that Illinois actually outplayed OSU whereas Iowa fought back and kicked the crap out of IU in the 4th quarter.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here"
by ReadingRambler on Aug 12, 2010 2:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, I think it was two plays in a row.
I think one of those calls was iffy not really horrible, but at least one of them was a joke. IIRC, of course.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here"
by ReadingRambler on Aug 12, 2010 2:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Maybe of interest to some here...
…the Brandon Watch seems to have killed Hawkeye Lounge. At least where I’m at it loaded, I started to scroll, and then boom… and now I can’t get any part of the site to come up, just prompts saying it’s not working right now.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 12, 2010 10:39 AM CDT reply actions
No, I don't normally go there...
…(so maybe this happens a lot, I don’t know), but I’ve completely blown off work this week, so I’ve already read everything at the sites I usually visit. HaLo seems like the most level headed of breathless message boards (I will not make the mistake of going to any of the others).
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 12, 2010 10:41 AM CDT up reply actions
I simply don't attend any of them
in fear of my brain cells being stolen from me.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 12, 2010 10:57 AM CDT up reply actions
I don't jest.
And don’t call me Shirley.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Aug 12, 2010 11:15 AM CDT up reply actions
Really? That bad huh?
Like I said, I figured out a long time ago not to stray too far from home (BHGP), so I have no idea who may or may not be reputable. I linked from Fight For Iowa (who seems to have a level head, even if he’s way too good at the creepy-caring), and I know there are a couple occasional posters here who post there (seen it mentioned in threads & stuff).
Thought I’d give it a try, but I guess that broke the internet. Cue Homer…
“You tried your best and you failed. The lesson is, never try.”
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 12, 2010 11:42 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm just as worried about this as anybody
but I really just hope he’s ok. If this is a big personal matter than I hope he get’s it sorted out for himself so he can move on and live his life. Having the press and fans freaking out about it cannot help, but knowing Iowa players he probably hasn’t paid any attention to any of it.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 12, 2010 10:59 AM CDT reply actions
…he can move on and live his life…
Please tell me how someone can suckle from the sweet tit that is Hawkeye Football fame one minute and then just move on and live his life. Wegher has been to the mountain top and drenched his loins in the fragrant pools of Kinnick. You don’t just walk away from that. He will end up a broken and soulless shell of a man, not dead but certainly not alive. What a sad situation.
If you feel like singing along, don't.
James Taylor
Well then
maybe he should have been wearing his swim suit when he went drenching his loins in other fragrant pools.
BTW, if that is the case, I have sympathy for the kid. When I was about his age I went through a pregnancy scare, and it sucked. Her husband wasn’t real happy about the whole thing either.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Anyone can be a heartbreaker...
…but it takes true tallent to be a homewrecker.
Well done.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 12, 2010 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions
Lets not be spreading rumors about young college kids.
I think it would be so hard to casually walk away from being a part of the Hawkeye Experince regardless of the underlying cause that really is none of our business.
PS – messing around with married women is like one notch above messing around with your first cousin.
If you feel like singing along, don't.
James Taylor
Yeah, my reply to that was in jest (just to be clear)...
…and an attempt to go the opposite direction (away from the reference to the rumor).
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 12, 2010 11:59 AM CDT up reply actions
If she was out playing, then her home was already wrecked in her mind.
/first hand knowledged from the bad side.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Aug 12, 2010 12:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Even if it's in a stadium bathroom stall?
Ohio State has the worst fans in the Big Ten. Bar none. And it’s not even close. Humorless in defeat. Condescending in victory. Generally insecure all the time. I’ve partied and had fun with fans of every team in this league, save Ohio State.
That whole deal
loses it’s humor value when you realize she was most likely raped. And thanks to community harrasment she lost her job as well.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Its unfortunate the whole thing went viral and that she lost her job.
but saying “she was most likely raped” seems excessive unless you witnessed it.
by HawkeyeRecon on Aug 12, 2010 2:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Could she be lying? Yes. But when somebody is so blasted they don’t recall their middle name to the police, it’s hard to call them a willing participant in something like this.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Was the guy really drunk? Was he raped too?
Sounds like you almost need to give a woman a Blood Alcohol Content test and get a signed consent form or having sex can later be construed as rape.
This has nothing to do with the Metrodome incident, but plenty of men’s lives have been ruined by having drunken consensual sex with a woman, who when she sobered up and realized what she had done, felt slutty and decided she must have been taken advantage of. A guy in the same circumstances who has sex with a woman he normally wouldn’t just tells himself not to get so messed up next time and hopes he didn’t give her his number.
by HawkeyeRecon on Aug 12, 2010 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
Judge away
but if someone in the situation was the “homewrecker” it was probably the coke dealer she had move into her house while the husband was out of town for a few days. It was all pretty messed up.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I wasn't judging. I was deflecting.
Brandon, where are you?
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 12, 2010 1:37 PM CDT up reply actions
The Related FanPosts sidebar is killing me lately.
Every time I see the “ADAM ROBINSON OUT FOR SEASON!” headline my heart skips a beat… until I see the “9 months ago” tag.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Yeah, it scared the shit out of me as well.
"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride." HST
All I know is
AIRBHG really hates Iowa.
Coker’s got a broken collarbone, and his status is unclear
Hampton’s coming back from an ACL tear, so who knows how he’s going to be. Plus he’s out for game 1.
ARob’s been injured last year, and personally I feel that once you’re injured, you’re going to be injured more easily in the future, as it’s unlikely some of these get a chance to heal completely.
Rogers was probably making the move towards a more FB role, so who knows what his weight, conditioning level, etc are like.
De’andre Johnson is a freshman, which can give us hope because I think AIRBHG usually ignores the freshman until they start playing.
Paki is apparently immune to AIRBHG. Perhaps this is it. Perhaps because he’s left off the depth chart, he’s called down a curse on the RB position. Perhaps the solution is to list him as the starting #1 RB?
Or
Maybe Paki IS the ARBHG, out to destroy every running back in black and gold so he can see more glory of running for 2 yards and falling down.
by HeroPatriotStanzi on Aug 12, 2010 11:29 AM CDT up reply actions
Or
ARBHG doesn’t consider Das Pakibomb a running back.
Too high? What do you mean too high?
by The Bacon Explosion on Aug 12, 2010 11:42 AM CDT up reply actions
I think that's more likely...
Kinda like with Sam Brownlee.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 12, 2010 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions
Regarding DeAndre Johnson...
BHGP commenter LuebkeSwims reminded me yesterday that Johnson tore his knee up in twelfth grade, and I ascertained from Gazette writers that he is practicing with a knee brace.
So, we’re basically/effectively down to ARob, Cambus Rodgers, and Paki for week 1, with Hampton hopefully in the mix after that.
AIRHGod is a vengeful god.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 12, 2010 4:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Are you kidding me
ARBHG is now hitting them preemptively? That’s just not right.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 12, 2010 6:24 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm also a bit troubled by the reports from a few of my buddies who live near A-Rob
apparently it’s a very common occurrence to see him at or walking back from the gas station near their place with a case and pack of black&milds.
Choke/Clutch is the fetishization of the small sample size.
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." -Isaac Asimov
by shake n bake on Aug 12, 2010 1:03 PM CDT up reply actions
As a devout Christian, I am not permitted to believe in an AIRBHG
but I do believe, at times if you are an Iowa running back, it is possible that 
If you feel like singing along, don't.
James Taylor
That is just wrong my friend!
"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride." HST
Technically he's a historical figure.
Where you choose to take it from there is your business.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 13, 2010 12:19 AM CDT up reply actions
I hated that movie.
Kevin Smith’s worst?
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
Meant to reply to Stoops above
Stupid “no edit”
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Aug 12, 2010 1:16 PM CDT up reply actions
No way is Dogma Kevin Smith's worst movie.
He made Jersey Girl.
by The Mexican't on Aug 12, 2010 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Dogma was awesome*.
Maybe it helps if you’re raised Catholic. Or, I just have bad taste. Either way.
*for a Kevin Smith movie (which are really pretty terrible on the whole)
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 12, 2010 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Dogma was good
It was also the last decent Kevin Smith film. After that, it all went to shit.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
I didn't mind Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back or Clerks II.
Jersey Girl and Zack & Miri sucked the balls off the porno the made.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Aug 12, 2010 3:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Dogma was pretty funny.
Jay carried that movie.
by HawkeyeRecon on Aug 12, 2010 3:56 PM CDT up reply actions
Clerks 2
Was definitely a letdown…….I hope that he doesn’t do a Mallrats 2 and totally fuck that up.
"That woman was sexy...Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won't screw you, don't do it for them."...SMDS
by J.R. Angle has a posse on Aug 12, 2010 3:59 PM CDT up reply actions
I just got the story from a somewhat inside source
I know, I know, nothing has been confirmed and this will sound like complete hearsay. A friend who talked to a former player (who I will keep anonymous) who attended the practice yesterday said that Wegher did in fact get his gf pregnant. Wanting to be there for the child, he wants to move off campus but team rules state that he must live in the dorms (I assume the rule is for the first 2 years of school). If he won’t budge on the dorm thing he is off the team, if he does give in I still see him missing a decent amount of time for skipping out on a week of two-a-days. Take it as you will, but this seems pretty credible to me.
I think most have us have been able to read between the lines
and were hoping to avoid interwebz speculation such as this. You may be right, but let’s remember that this is a 19-year-old kid and that we’re supposed to be pulling for him. Here’s to waiting for the facts to come out in due time and holding off on rumors in lieu of verifiable information.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 13, 2010 12:24 AM CDT up reply actions
The real scoop
He was helping his parents on the ranch and got caught between a gate and the fence. He has a severe bruise on his right hip. The good news is that they girlfriend went and talked to Pres. Mason who allegedly gave her a pamphlet for the Emma Goldman Clinic. Wegher is refusing to admit to his injury, and seeking solace in pain pills. Fortunately, he’ll get this all taken care of in time to run zone read plays for the big touchdown against a key rival.
Nevermind, I’m conflating the Iowa City fishbowl and the Dillon fishbowl.
Pain pills!?
Great, he’ll be rapping like Eminem pretty soon, and then there goes his football career. (Indeed, that was sarcasm.)
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 13, 2010 8:54 AM CDT up reply actions
Finally,
some real journalism.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 13, 2010 9:43 AM CDT up reply actions
No, no, no.
My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who saw Brandon pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.
by Abbas_Cincinnatus on Aug 13, 2010 10:00 AM CDT up reply actions
Was it due to their recent elimination
of 5 flavors? As long as daiquiri ice is safe…
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 14, 2010 12:47 AM CDT up reply actions
I like Wegher as a RB. But I think ARob was the better back last season, overall.
Would have been really nice to have them both though. For a true freshman to come in and do what Wegher did, his toughness around the goal line, his runs in the 4th quarter of the Orange bowl, was pretty special. I still think ARob’s overall body of work last season was better than Wegher’s. Who knows where they are relative to each other now though. Wegher might have surpassd him. Hopefully Wegher comes back and we have a 3 headed monster at RB all season!
I don't see ARob pulling off some of the catches Wegher made.
They were a good compliment to each other. As was stated above ARob was the Pounding back and Wegher the Change of Pace back.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Aug 13, 2010 8:20 AM CDT up reply actions
I think this is just what Iowa needs, an emergency controversy.
Lets face it we have tended to suck in the years where the stars seemed to be aligned perfectly; but in the years when all kinds of nasty stuff is happening and gaping holes are ripped into the Hawkeye fabric, the team and fans pull together an something beautiful happens. I won’t be feeling good about this team until they have Dan Murray listed as the second string RB.
If you feel like singing along, don't.
James Taylor
Don’t we have an Australian walking on at punter or something? Maybe he could move to FB and platoon when Morse has to play RB. You know, on running, not pass plays. I prefer that Richard has a healthy senior season. I also prefer that Kirk has ripped the page out of Ken’s playbook for minimum protect rollouts, in the Iowa end zone, to the side of All-American defensive ends. My wish list is pretty modest for August 13.
Oh – also that they’ve dumped the end around play. The one where, when your team is playing a bowl game in San Antonio, 70 miles from the opposing teams campus (1100 miles from yours), and you’re outplaying this more talented team but are still behind, but driving, until you decide to send in a slooooowly developing play your team doesn’t have the speed to execute against this other team, which proceeds to lose like 15 yards, at which point the refs are ready to get out of there so they gift the opposing team a ridiculous spot on the next series. Consequently, your alum who lives in Dallas has to walk out of that stupid stadium surrounded by 60,000 fans from the other team who are mostly smug assholes, PLUS the city the game is in is one of the most overrated cities in the country, and you hate it. Don’t run that play.
I was watching a few vidoes on Morehouse's blog
and came across a video of Wegher. Marc was asking him some questions and he seemed to be agitated about something. You could tell something was bothering him.
Scroll down to the Wegher video and you’ll see at 2:10 mark, Morehouse made a statement to Wegher "What’s the funnest part about today, you don’t seem like you’re very…
Brandon then goes on to give an interesting answer…kind of.
Maybe there is nothing here, but I find it interesting that after that day, he has been absent from practice.
Here is a link to Morehouse’s blog:
"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride." HST
Sorry, Link fail
As you can tell by my name I am a damn moron and can’t figure out how to link to Morehouse’s blog.
The embeded video is on his blog under the Iowa media day — Player video. Scroll down to the Wegher vidoe and let me know what you guys think.
"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride." HST
Just watched it
Can’t say I’ve seen any other videos of Wegher, but you got a good point. He does seem very distant and distracted. Hope everything is alright.
by IDontUnderStanzi on Aug 13, 2010 10:13 AM CDT up reply actions
Thank you good sir!
"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride." HST
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