The hits keep coming for Bruce Pearl..and summary of the bad things that have happened to Purdue's Robbie Hummel

Yet another hit and maybe more to come for Tennessee's Bruce Pearl...
Ben McLemore, a Top 25 recruit, 5-Star rated that Pearl had pursued vigorously, has canceled his visit to Tennessee over the weekend and dropped Tennessee from his list -- and stories emerging say he is convinced Bruce Pearl isn't going to be there much longer...or there could be some serious sanctions coming...so he just doesn't want to chance going to a school that he'll regret...
This is gonna steamroll and really hurt Tennessee's ability to recruit.
http://kansas.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=1871&tid=149029500&mid=149029500&sid=897&style=2
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2010/oct/20/mizzou-ku-left-preps-choices/



The Big East Media Day is today -- here are all their preseason picks....

Here's how the coaches see their league stacking up this season...

Pts.
1. Pittsburgh (12)222 pts.
2. Villanova (1) 208 pts.
3. Syracuse (2) 187 pts.
4. Georgetown 173 pts.
5. West Virginia 164 pts.
6. St. John’s (1) 145 pts.
7. Notre Dame 123 pts.
8. Louisville 121 pts.
9. Marquette 121 pts.
10. Connecticut 133 pts.
11. Seton Hall 104 pts.
12. Cincinnati 91 pts.
13. USF 54 pts.
14. Providence 36 pts. (all three of these last teams are going to be bad)
15. Rutgers 32 pts.
16. DePaul 26 pts.

2010-11 BIG EAST Preseason Player of the Year
Austin Freeman, Georgetown

2010-11 BIG EAST Preseason Rookie of the Year
Fab Melo, Syracuse

2010-11 Preseason All-BIG EAST First Team
Austin Freeman, Georgetown (Player of the Year), G, Sr., 6-3 ½, 227, Mitchellville, Md.
Kemba Walker, Connecticut, G, Jr., 6-1, 172, Bronx, N.Y.
Ashton Gibbs, Pittsburgh, G, Jr., 6-2, 190, Scotch Plains, N.J.
Jeremy Hazell, Seton Hall, G, Sr., 6-5, 188, Bronx, N.Y.
Corey Fisher, Villanova, G, Sr., 6-1, 200, Bronx, N.Y.
Kevin Jones, West Virginia, F, Jr., 6-8, 255, Mount Vernon, N.Y.

2010-11 Preseason All-BIG EAST Second Team
Chris Wright, Georgetown, G, Sr., 6-1, 208, Washington, D.C.
Jimmy Butler, Marquette, F, Sr., 6-7, 220, Tomball, Texas
Tim Abromaitis, Notre Dame, F, Sr., 6-8, 235, Unionville, Conn.
D.J. Kennedy, St. John’s, G/F, Sr., 6-5, 214, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Kris Joseph, Syracuse, F, Jr., 6-7, 207, Montreal, Quebec

2010-11 Preseason All-BIG EAST Honorable Mention
Yancy Gates, Cincinnati, F, Sr., 6-9, 260, Cincinnati, Ohio
Darius Johnson-Odom, Marquette, G, Jr., 6-2, 215, Raleigh, N.C. (ex-BU recruit)
Rick Jackson, Syracuse, F, Sr., 6-9, 240, Philadelphia, Pa.



Here's the news on Purdue's star forward, Robbie Hummel. Some of the info being made known recently is controversial and one of the links below has already been removed as to avoid arguments, but I will present the facts as they are and allow the reader to draw his own conclusions.

Purdue's Robbie Hummel just tore his right ACL for a second time. This is quite unusual and here is some commentary about 2nd ACL tears by Dr. Brian Cole...one of the world's leading expert in knee reconstruction.

This recent article quotes renowned orthopedic specialist Dr. Brian Cole, who I have met several times and who operated on one of my own children, and who is also the long time Chicago Bulls team doctor as well as Chicago White Sox team doctor..
http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/basketball/college/purdue-university/article_04a20f9a-b549-5bd3-bfa2-0f32966ac5e8.html

Cole, by the way, literally "wrote the book" on many of these types of knee injuries and their repair...
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ptp_2HlZ1-QC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ptp_2HlZ1-QC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22joint+reconstruction%22+and+%22cole%22&hl=en&ei=1Bm_TL_yAsrBnAf01I2KDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=W6z8508TSfAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22textbook+of+arthroscopy%22+and+%22cole%22&hl=en&ei=mhm_TPzKB4SnnAfi4vGJDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Only about one in every 40 to 50 men who tear their ACL ever do it again after it's been surgically reconstructed, but lately it's been happening more.
Because of the type of wear and tear and injury, virtually every example of repeat ACL tear is in either a woman basketball player or a men's football player.
Exhaustive search seems to turn up zero previous men basketball players who have re-torn the same ACL twice and ever made it back to be able to play at any significant level. These facts are ominous news for Hummel....

BUT -- there's even a little more brewing controversy about this re-injury for Robbie Hummel -- just to recap, here's a timeline of what has happened to Purdue's Robbie Hummel...

-Robbie Hummel's first knee injury is a complete rupture (tear) of his right ACL in a game vs. Minnesota on Feb. 24, 2010

-March 8, 2010 - Hummel undergoes reconstructive surgery on his torn ACL by Dr. Donald Shelbourne, a well known knee specialist in Indianapolis, IN.

-May 27, 2010 - in an effort to vigorously rehab his knee over a relatively short time span, hoping to be ready for the start of the season in fall, Hummel re-injures his surgically repaired knee, but very little gets said about it...
The re-injury definitely pushes him back on the progress scale and his rehab kinda starts over after a rest period.
http://blogs.post-trib.com/osipoff/2010/05/some-purdue-basketball-items-i.html
http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckPersona&U=5da7dfb61b584f4a83ea05a31ed1e57c&plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&plckUserId=5da7dfb61b584f4a83ea05a31ed1e57c&plckPostId=Blog%3a5da7dfb61b584f4a83ea05a31ed1e57cPost%3add750f37-be8a-4ac1-8ca3-1de45fa0b513&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest

-Then in the fall of 2010 -- everyone said that despite a few setbacks, Hummel was going to try to get fully cleared and practicing by the opening day of practice, Oct. 15.
This seemed very optimistic given that most ACL reconstructions take a bare minimum of 4-6 months before full and vigorous athletic activity should take place...and many specialists even say that's too fast, and that it should be more like 6-8 or even 8-12 months.
Oct. 15 only 7 months downstream from his repair surgery...and barely four months from being cleared after his setback in the summer.

It has been reported that Hummel was fully cleared for any and all action on Oct. 1, 2010 by Dr. Shelbourne...
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/10/purdues-robbie-hummel-cleared-to-return-to-action/1
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=183759&postcount=26

...although he was pretty worried about doing too much too soon!
"one of the biggest concerns with his rehab was that he would try to do too much too soon"
http://beyondthearc.nbcsports.com/2010/10/hummel-moving-pretty-good-on-healthy-knee.php
http://blogs.post-trib.com/osipoff/2010/05/some-purdue-basketball-items-i.html

-October 16, 2010 - literally the very first practice of the season for the team and the very first time Hummel practiced on his surgically repaired knee...
...Robbie Hummel suffers another complete tear of his ACL in preseason practice.
This is very unfortunate and now Hummel will undergo a much more difficult repeat reconstruction, and I hope he defies the odds and makes a great comeback!
http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/ncb/news/story?id=5691032


BUT -- there are people raising the question -- Did he come back too soon?? You decide..
"Hummel tore his ACL in the second drill of the very first practice of the season. (after being cleared fully)"

Unfortuntely there's not one single known college athlete who has ever come back and has a notable career or success after completely tearing the same ACL TWICE...
but Purdue is snakebitten in this regard, since their football team's starting quarterback also JUST tore his same ACL for a 2nd time after being repaired two years earlier...
http://purdue.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1133164
http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/09/30/robert-marve-purdue-quarterback-out-for-season-with-torn-acl/

and - take this FWIW -- the surgeon, Dr. Shelbourne..
"was recently fired by the Indiana Pacers and the Indiana Colts"...and his techniques have come under question...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PEF7MTRq_I8J:bleacherreport.com/articles/494774-robbie-hummels-acl-tear-leaves-purdue-answering-100-million-questions+%22shelbourne%22+and+%22marve%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

And even Dr. Shelbourne's own words in this interview (see link below) say he really feels a player should NOT come back until 4-6 months after they are back on the floor practicing!
Note that Hummel only got back on the floor at the end of May, but even then re-injured his knee (see above) -- so his start time for this 4-6 months would have really been July, so clearing the guy fully just 4 months later really raises questions if that timetable violated Dr. Shelbourne's own guidelines..
Also, in this interview, he somewhat condemns trying to get the athletes back TOO SOON, which is, unfortunately, what might have happened here...
http://purdue.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1080144



Here's a nice article and nice coverage on Ex-Bluejay Anthony Tolliver..
I am more than willing to call it as I see it when it comes to good vs. bad coverage in the press.....
http://www.startribune.com/sports/wolves/105226529.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:UthPacyPE7iUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUoD3aPc:_27EQU