Nance expected back to start fall practice,

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It's pretty simple. If he forgoes a redshirt, comes back early and then doesn't get drafted it will be deja vu all over again. He'll have bypassed an extra year in college to play in the d league.

After 4 years he'll have graduated, and sitting on the bench for a whole year longer than what may be needed can also be detrimental.

I mean, damn, it's not even July and you're reacting to how he may not be 100% in 4 months, hell, you're overreacting if he IS 100% healthy. Chill out.

Who's over-reacting? I'm not saying he's going to do anything. I'm saying what I would do in his position, which is already declare a redshirt and take my time coming back.

The fan base and writers are the ones that are over-reacting. Everyone's getting excited that he's going to be back next fall. The closer it gets to next fall, the more of this crap that you'll see on the message boards, the more Larry will hear these conversations, and more crap media will be released saying everything is going to be all right. All it's going to do is put more pressure on him to play, even if he isn't ready too.

I'm just trying to keep the expectations bottled up a little bit, because there is a very real possibility that this can go all wrong.

Knowing Larry, all of us and the media talking about him coming back won't matter one bit to him. A couple days after it happened he told me he would be back by the start of the year, he is motivated to play and he does have some history on his side. His dad, and his sister both had multiple ACL tears during their careers and both came back fro them at the same level they were before them, and came back in less than a year.

Yank, the rest of his family have had knee surgeries, but Nance is the first ACL in the family.