Ugh, Robert Vaihola will have knee surgery on Friday and is expected to miss the rest of the season.

[BleedGopher]

Go Gophers!!

 

[FinnGopher]

Mama, why can't we have good stuff?

 

[The Deliberate Stranger]

Only played five games should get a medical redshirt if he wants it.

 

[Outsider]

I’m really beginning to think there is a witch doctor somewhere that has a Gopher voodoo doll and is just poking pins in that thing left and right.

 

[Unregistered User]

Happy New Year!

Spoiler alert ===== don’t expect anything new

Sigh

 

[GopherBlood777]

Can turner get 5 mins a game now?

 

[BTChamp]

As expected.
"Hey, Minnesota, do you want something good?"
"No thank you".

 

[60's Guy]

If we could get him back for about 40 games next year it would be a great trade.
Vaihola is one of those guys who contributes waayy beyond the stats on paper.
Hope all goes well and he is a Gopher next year.

 

[MNVCGUY]

Every team deals with injuries but good lord this program can not catch a break on that front.

I hate this insanity of adding guys mid-season but if there was ever a team that had a justifiable reason for needing to do so it would be us.

 

[goldenboy]

Gopher Roster:
Isaac Asuma
Langston Reynolds
Bobby Durkin
Cade Tyson
Jaylen Crocker-Johnson
Kai Shinhoster
Grayson Grove
Nehemiah Turner
Max Gizzi
Max Lorenson
RJ Spencer
Robert Vaihola
Chansey Willis
BJ Omot
Chance Stephens
Only Tyson and Crocker-Johnson might start for another Big Ten team. The other five in our rotation are bench players. Gonna be some serious beatdowns the rest of the season.

 

[TwistingMyMelon]

"My team is on the floor" said Gene Hackman in Hoosiers.

That's the psychology we have to have now. There is no help ready to emerge from the sidelines.

 

[Bad Gopher]

I've seen this episode: the flu hits the 4077th, and only Hawkeye is available for surgery...and then HE gets the flu and still has to operate. Him to Hotlips: "Remember that shot you gave me for the flu? Well, it worked; I have it."

 

[howeda7]

As expected.
"Hey, Minnesota, do you want something good?"
"No thank you".

The Minnesota Sports Gods don't give away Rate Bowl victories for free.

 

[howeda7]

Gopher Roster:





Isaac Asuma


Langston Reynolds


Bobby Durkin


Cade Tyson


Jaylen Crocker-Johnson


Kai Shinhoster


Grayson Grove


Nehemiah Turner


Max Gizzi


Max Lorenson


RJ Spencer


Robert Vaihola


Gopher Roster:
Gopher Roster:
Isaac Asuma
Langston Reynolds
Bobby Durkin
Cade Tyson
Jaylen Crocker-Johnson
Kai Shinhoster
Grayson Grove
Nehemiah Turner
Max Gizzi
Max Lorenson
RJ Spencer
Robert Vaihola
Chansey Willis
BJ Omot
Chance Stephens
Only Tyson and Crocker-Johnson might start for another Big Ten team. The other five in our rotation are bench players. Gonna be some serious beatdowns the rest of the season.

Langston Reynolds is missing an emoji.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

I’m really beginning to think there is a witch doctor somewhere that has a Gopher voodoo doll and is just poking pins in that thing left and right.

 

[Zeppelin Gopher]

Can turner get 5 mins a game now?

I get that he's in Niko's doghouse, and probably justifiably.

But we are going to be forced to play Nemo in the B1G. Might've been a decent idea to get him some more minutes in the non conf...

 

[USAF]

Langston Reynolds is missing an emoji.

He turned it over.

 

[Gophs24]

Can turner get 5 mins a game now?

right....its a long grind of a season, would have really like to see him get even spot minutes in some of these games

 

[gophersoa]

Any idea what his injury could be? Wait for a month and a half and then decide to have surgery.

 

[howeda7]

The NCAA will deny this to show they still have power.

 

[Unregistered User]

Any idea what his injury could be? Wait for a month and a half and then decide to have surgery.

Best guess would be a meniscus

They can self heal or require surgery

 

[Chico Gopher]

Best guess would be a meniscus

They can self heal or require surgery

According to a surgeon who worked on my left knee when I was in my mid-30's, there is a possibility that the younger you are, the more likely it is that your body can sometimes re-produce ( not actual new cartilage, but) a type of semi-replacement padding. He had to remove a divot of cartilage from my knee, but said "You're right on the edge of too old for this to happen, but if you're willing to stay off that knee for about 6 weeks or so, I've seen instances of the body trying to fill in that divot with secretions that sometimes form a little bit of padding in that spot." He indicated that it might make a small difference in the pain if it happened at all. Turns out I was too old for my body to react that way, so I still sometimes get that sharp pain in that spot if I step on it the wrong way.

The same surgeon also told me, of course this was in the mid-90's, "If you can avoid surgery or put it off to see if rest and exercise can fix the issue, that's sometimes the better option. Sometimes you know right away that you need the knife, but not always.". When it comes to cartilage (meniscus) pain tolerance is often a consideration. Having several instances of both cartilage and ACL/PCL issues in my life, I can attest that the cartilage injuries were always more painful.

 

[CentralGopher]

FFS