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August 12, 2008

Doug Fulmer Keeps Getting Breaks

Filed under: Football,Injury,Players — Chas @ 12:42 pm

And sprains, and twists and now tears.

Pitt redshirt junior defensive end Doug Fulmer is out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

It is another in a run of tough breaks for Fulmer, who missed all of last season with a torn ACL in his right knee and missed the final eight games of the 2006 season with a broken left ankle.

Fulmer had barely seen any action for most of training camp as the coaches were being cautions with getting him out in drills. He almost immediately gets hurt again.

“He has a tear in a ligament in his other knee – the good knee – and he will have surgery,” Wannstedt said. “It’s just a matter of when. They’re working out the details of all that. It’s just so unfortunate because the guy just hasn’t had a chance the last couple years because of the variety of all the injuries that he’s had. The plan right now is he will have the surgery, we’ll see how the rehab goes and go from there.”

Fulmer’s career is not over — though, if he wanted to quit after this setback I would not begrudge him. He still has next season. He had a regular redshirt in 2005. He missed all of last season without a medical redshirt. The NCAA has on occasion granted an extra redshirt for some who have had this kind of bad luck, so there is a chance that Fulmer may be that rare 6-year player — hey, with a broken ankle and ACL tears in both knees the least he should have is a chance to earn a Masters on scholarship.

From a team standpoint and depth, it is not nearly as big a blow as it was not having him last year. Jabaal Sheard, Greg Romeus, Tony Tucker are definitely in the two deep. Tyler Tkach can be a solid contributor there. To say nothing of Craig Bokor and Justin Hargrove might be able to get a chance.

Still, here’s hoping for another full recovery for Fulmer.





this is great!!! i hate pitt!!! go wvu!!

Comment by ihatestuart 08.12.08 @ 8:28 pm

Grow up you stupid Hoopie.

Comment by Ann 08.12.08 @ 9:22 pm

Take your MBA degree and light your couch on fire.

Comment by Gas 08.12.08 @ 9:23 pm

That first comment is bogus. It is entirely too well written to be the handiwork of a Morgantown grad.

Comment by johnny 08.12.08 @ 11:46 pm

^^^ johnny, the lack of capitalization leads me to differ with you…In fact, it appears you might be a closet Hoopie yourself with how you write your screen name.

Step forward and pledge your true colors please.

Re: Fulmer…Damn! But, one door closes and another one opens for someone else I suppose. Gorman has a good article on Chas Alecxih and his quest to get into the DE two deep – and makes mention that walking on at PITT was not a financial burden for his family. I suppose not if you read this article:

link to worldnetdaily.com

Apparently his Pops bought a farm in Lancaster County for $1.7M to develop luxury homes on – and the County condemned it for parkland with a $2M Eminent Domain price. Alecxih the Elder went to court to get compensation and was awarded $19M for it!!! SCORE!!!

No wonder the kid shuttles to camp in a private airplane.

Comment by Reed 08.13.08 @ 4:47 am

Did anyone receive thier tickets in the mail yet???

Comment by Tony In Harrisburg 08.13.08 @ 7:50 am

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Inuries are killing teams this year. The Gators have lost five to ACL tears and UGa lost a starting offensive tackle too.

It stinks no matter from what team.

Comment by Z 08.13.08 @ 10:20 am

So, if that troll was in fact a Hoopie, he’s an incredibly stupid one. See, you want the BE to be a tough conference. I mean, should manage actually, finally run the table, you’ll still see the ‘Eers be looked upon as “second tier” unless they’re able to point to their conference schedule as being, *ahem*, credible.

But hey, if some idiot ‘Neck wants to cut his nose off to spite his face, well, that’s not really a surprise, is it?

Comment by Shawn 08.13.08 @ 10:32 am

Tony-
I just got my student tickets yesterday

Comment by merlin 08.13.08 @ 3:41 pm

@Reed,

True colors are declared for Pitt. The lack of capitalization is more of an homage to e e cummings as well as my own testament to being too lazy to hit “Shift + j” when typing my name.

Best of luck to Doug in his rehab and here’s to hoping that the boys can avoid the injury bug.

Comment by johnny 08.13.08 @ 4:30 pm

johnny, figured you were a William Faulkner fan.

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