Ouch. This one will leave a mark.
Oklahoma’s All-American tight end, Jermaine Gresham, underwent surgery on his injured right knee today and, according to head coach Bob Stoops, will be lost for the rest of the 2009 season.
An arthroscopic procedure performed this afternoon determined that surgery was necessary to repair the damaged cartilage; that surgery was performed this afternoon.
The recovery period from the type of damage that was repaired is five months, meaning there’s no chance he could return to the field for OU this season.
The loss to the Sooners, still reeling from the loss to BYU and injury to quarterback Sam Bradford, is huge on the field. Simply put, the Sooners do not have anyone even remotely capable of replacing Gresham’s production.
Certainly, they have players who can take his spot — run-blocker Jody Eldridge chief among them — but they won’t be able to fill his role in the Sooners’ record-setting offense.
All in all, this has been a craptistic start to the ’09 season for the Sooners. And, pending the fate of Bradford, could get a helluva lot worse.
File this one under “Should Have Gone Pro When He Could Have Been A First Rounder”.
Poor bastard. Hope he took out insurance.
The Sooners are toast for this year. Too bad because Texas will beat them again this year and it won’t mean as much because OU isn’t all there.
We’ll have to put up with St(upid)oops for another year because they won’t make it to another bowl game to lose it.