The House of Blue

Good news so far ... although X-Rays can't diagnose ligament injuries or tears. At least it sounds like there's no bone damage or bone fragments in the knee.

The way he twisted the knee (to the side and not a hyperextension) usually means a patela dislocation or patela tendion rupture. A sympton of the patella tendon rupter is major displacement of the patela. That would have showed up on the x-ray (patela displacement). So, I'm holding out that he just scared the heck out of himself and maybe tore some cartlidge.

I saw the picture on the Herald Leader. You can actually twist our knew like that when you stand up. It looks bad but where knee injuries usually happen it's when the knee hyper extends or when it's hit from the side and completly displaced. I'm not saying he didn't ravage the ligaments in his knee. But it's not as clear a situation as when somebody hyper-extends the knee.

Thats a significant valgus loaded injury. I agree with you the MCL is most likely damaged. I am holding out hope that its isolated to that ligament but ACL/medial meniscus with that force concerns me.

As a South Carolina fan I watched our star player (Lattimore) suffer a season ending knee injury. I had the same sick feeling in my stomach last night watching Noel's injury. I will be hoping for the best for him.

Thanks for those sentiments-I believe all true fans put the interests of the young men (and women) who provide us with so many thrills and so much excitement first and foremost...regardless of the uniform...to us, it's a game...to them, their lives and livelihoods...

Yeah, my wife went to USC for undergrad. It was pretty heartbreaking to see Lattimore go down this year.

I believe the NCAA should provide some type of insurance to star athletes that have verified draft prospects.