Milton update thread
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Thank heavens. Still no idea about wither or not he will ever play football again, but just knowing he's ok is the only thing I care about right now.
First chance I have had to post here but Gamecock Nation knows what the Milton Family and UCF is going through. So here's to a speedy recovery and a bright future.
Agree, remember Case Keenum took a full year off (injured in 1st seres of first game) and came back for his senior year because hewasn't asure-fire pro prospect.
I remember this. Never thought KZ might have the oldest college player kind of career.
Can’t help but hurt for him, can’t imagine the physical and emotional pain. Hope he beats the odds to comes out ok; it’s heartbreaking to see a great athlete lose a career they’ve worked so hard on for almost all their life. I know he’ll never read this, but get well soon man.
I think a lot of us are thinking this, but no one wants to talk about it until we know more about what's happening.
It feels weird to talk about contingency plans when we don't know what direction it will go and it just happened yesterday.
gonna do one recapping, the game pretty much from the defensive side and running backs.
Am going to do another on Mack's two games (ECU and USF) kind've go throw by throw look at play calling while he was in. Want to Gif a lot of the throws in the article (if I can figure out how the hell to make them lol)
And then I'm still charting the last 4 Memphis games offensively and will do another breakdown. Was going to do offense and defense, but UCF's offense is kind of a ? mark with what were going to see so I'd rather do the Mack thing.
My off the head opinion is the only one that's going to stop Mack and the offense in general is Heupel (not really in a bad way more of a just not being as aggressive as he would with Milton way).
I probably have a lot more confidence in Mack then almost everyone off of a very small sample and I could be very wrong, but you can't always be right.
We'll see how it goes, if there's anything anyone is interested about Mack I can look at it too.
Actually several people have noted that Mack has thrown a couple of great deep balls that have either been dropped or broken up by good DB play. He’s accurate and just needs to take a bit of steam off shorter throws.
I will say based on what ive seen i trust mack more than i would holman
For whatever it is worth....spoke to someone whos son was allegedly “in on the surgery”. He said “he is gonna be ok”. Next steps tbd.... No big revelations but a somewhat positive vibe.
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Yes and because of that people should just wait and see what kind of recovery KZ has rather than assuming his career is over.
Yeah. I’m tired of hearing all of these assumptions. I’m hearing everything from being back for a Bowl game to being an advocate for the handicapped (people with one leg) for being a graduate assistant. Totally ridiculous.
Just stop it!
What do we know?
1) He hurt his knee/leg
2). He had emergency surgery
3) He made it through surgery to fix the problem and other issues and is in “good” condition
4) He’s not likely to play this week
That’s it!
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Couldn’t be more proud of Milton. Looked like a brave face on the field, and seems to be a kid with a lot of faith. This is who u want as the face of your program.
Well said. We also know that he is very talented and smart, he is very driven, he can be a great pocket passer, and we can win games on the ground......KZ can easily recover, he can be a less mobile pocket passer and still be better than most other QBs. First and foremost the only priority is his health and well being.....we wish him the best in recovering to live a full, normal and prosperous life. That said, don't give up on this kid, he will probably surprise you!
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And BTW, it is obvious KZ has amazing parents and role models......
Glad that she’s tweeting and giving updates
Most reliable source is the parents
Not to read too much into this but has a very positive tone
Interesting, I actually didn’t take it that way at all. It shows just how vague comments can be interpreted completely differently. I’ll practice what I preach and leave it at that
Sure, it is clear that the entire family has very strong faith and the post can easily be interpreted in a totally different light....
Looking forward to your breakdown. One quick way to evaluate a player is to look at the head coaches who offered him, and their winning percentage. The theory being winning coaches have a good eye for talent. Mack was offered by Bronco Mendenhall (Virginia) 114-65, Justin Fuente (Va Tech) 50-37, Pat Narduzzi (Pitt) 28-22, Doc Holliday (Marshall) 69-45, Geoff Collins (Temple) 15-10, Scott Frost (UCF) 23-15, Connell Maynor (Hampton) 71-36, and Bobby Wilder (Old Dominion) 76-45. Mack was professionally evaluated and offered by 8 head coaches with winning percentages. Memphis will lose, again.
Nice analysis. Mack is the real deal.
These guys are brothers and love each other and it will be a very emotional ball game. Plus we got the bounce house and the best 12th man in college football this year to back us up.
For Sure - Teresa has been one of our biggest supporters. Did you see her decked out in UCF ohana love on ABC? I see Mack's mamma all over TV too. Love seeing the parents get involved in the program.
I believe it was Kevin Smith's mom who was a riot to watch on the sidelines years ago.
I wouldn't analyze and dump Mack based on 2 games, also wouldn't expect too much from him either. At times, Milton looked horrible his 1st year--- passes only a 12 foot WR could catch. Fortunately, we've got some good RB. It's not all on Mack.
Agreed. He's a freshman with some talent, we should expect talented freshman results.
That means that we could see flashes of brilliance or looking completely out of his depth. If it's a bad day for him, it's on the defense, run game, and special teams to rise to a new level.
Definitely agreee here, only thing I would say is a lot individual success does have to do with being in the right system, despite a few exceptions, KZ being one, I think he’d excel in any offense. Not at all enough of Mack in college to say anything about regarding that, just those coaches all run a variety of different systems (not saying it’s a positive or negative thing) like Pitt is pretty pro style huddling and that which makes that an interesting offer bc Mack was a DT. Hampton, ODU, UVA, and Marshall all local schools as well.
Frost recruiting Mack is a major positive to me. Not a crazy big sample but the QBs he’s recruited KZ and Martinez recently are two of the best in the country very young.
I know a lot of you guys aren’t fans of frost anymore and hate Neb haha, but if you watch Martinez play at all this year, the kids insanely good and he didn’t even play football last season
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