Meanwhile, the Heisman QB was still a 1st year starter who fired fastballs into the ground. Can't teach experience in fall camp.
Did anything ever come out about Arch being injured last year? I had a strong suspicion last year, and a couple of physical therapists I know mentioned their suspicion as well.
I suspected Nussmeier was injured also, and we were belligerently tight lipped about it last year. Until after the season when he admitted that yes, he had dealt with what trainers called an oblique injury all year. I mention that only to say that my suspicion about Nuss was correct, and I'm still suspicious about Arch.
Side note: it was just revealed that Nuss' NFL team has diagnosed him with a cyst on his spine, pressing into his spinal cord, and that was the source of his pain last year, not a mysterious oblique injury. The LSU staff completely missed it, but the Chiefs identified it and are proceeding with treatment (surgery, I assume?). I don't have any more details than that, but that seems like a big, BIG miss by the LSU medical staff. Proper imaging should have revealed that. I felt bad enough for a kid who patiently waited in this day and age, not transferring out when LSU brought in Jayden Daniels for two years, who took his lumps in 2024 but became the only 4,000+ yd passer in LSU history besides Joe Burrow, with 29 TDs, but then dealt with severe abdominal pain in his second year starting, having been projected as a potential first round pick and a Heisman contender starting out. Instead, he passed for only 1900+ yards and 12 TDs, with 5 INTs, and looked like a shell of his former self, and dropped all the way to the 7th round, barely getting drafted. But it sounds like LSU misdiagnosed the issue. If so, that's......not great, Bob.
