'10 IL OT Christian Lombard (Notre Dame Signee)

[AdmiralBackhand]

Back surgeries are scary stuff. Will be praying for him.

 

[yankeeND]

Oh no! Had no idea he was hurt. Definitely will keep in my prayers.

 

[ThePiombino]

Out for season due to back surgery. Elmer will take his spot.

Wow :/

 

[arrowryan]

Too bad for him. Hope he recovers to full strength for the NFL. Glad to get Elmer some more reps

 

[yankeeND]

Too bad for him. Hope he recovers to full strength for the NFL. Glad to get Elmer some more reps

You don't think he will get a 5th year?

 

[irishff1014]

Back surgeries are scary stuff. Will be praying for him.

A lot of people are never 100% after having back surgery. Its a shame. Hope he recovers 100%.

 

[arrowryan]

You don't think he will get a 5th year?

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is his 5th year

 

[NDWorld247]

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is his 5th year

Nope. He's eligible for next year.

This is disappointing news.

 

[Luckylucci]

Really glad he can come back, it would have been even worse if he couldn't come back and was only able to play in half of his last season. Definitely tough loss. I think Elmer fills in well but having the whole right side including C in their first year starting will cause a few problems.

 

[arrowryan]

Nope. He's eligible for next year.

This is disappointing news.

Holy cow. I was thinking of Watt for some reason. If it does end his career, I'm glad he has a very good degree to fall back on

 

[Emcee77]

Man, bummer. Losing a versatile OL like Lombard is like losing two OL. Hope he takes care of himself and gets well soon.

Good for Steve moving into a starting role. Man, he'd better not get hurt though. That would leave us with no backup tackles besides frosh we would prefer to redshirt.

Really glad he can come back, it would have been even worse if he couldn't come back and was only able to play in half of his last season. Definitely tough loss. I think Elmer fills in well but having the whole right side including C in their first year starting will cause a few problems.

Yeah, but on the other hand, by game 8 there are really no freshmen any more, you know?

 

[Ironman8]

Really tough break for Christian. Hope he heals up in time for the spring / fall next year.

Only silver lining is that this is really the perfect time for us to lose him, if we were going to have to at all, considering the upcoming schedule and the experience Elmer will gain for '14.

 

[Redbar]

Good luck Christian, keep your head up.

 

[NDinL.A.]

Lombard will always have a special place in my ND heart because he was the first in his class to commit, and when Weis got fired he never wavered, even when other schools came at him hard. Hope he comes back better than ever and claims that RG spot next season...

 

[Old Man Mike]

A few amateurish thoughts:

1). terrible to lose a good fellow and a good guy at any time, but especially an OLineman who was gluing together our Fist of Five Fingers. Stepping in there is more than an alteration due to one shift of a chess piece.

2). Steve is a great young player. He is not an ideal guard from all my previous data --- we will see. Lombard had two good strengths in the running game: he could crash down towards the center --- Elmer will do that well. He could pull and get to the leftside hole-to-be effectively. Steve is not quite "shaped" classically to do that --- we'll have to watch closely to see.

3). This tells us all anyone should need to know about Hanratty [unless he too is hurt; that I don't know]. Most of us were nervous about him being quick and strong enough for starter during Spring and August camps; we speculated about Elmer and Stanley due to that. It appears that we had very good reason.

4). This situation shows us how perilously thin we've become on the OLine, and why the Five Freshman Mountains [and even five more this cycle] are vital. All praise Coach Hiestand!

5). Going forward, we're probably OK as long as guys like Watt can hang in there like the warriors that they are. Olines usually play the whole game if healthy anyway. If subs are needed, I'm betting on the frosh, Bivin and McGlinchey, as the personnel Kelly uses [mid-line and tackle respectively]. If Watt [GOD forbid], I'd bet Bivin. If Stanley [GOD forbid], I'd bet Bivin still, and Elmer to tackle. If TWO [Give us a Break!!], then McGlinchey is NMI.

What this seems to do is put more potential into blowing Bivin's redshirt, and us getting a little slower on pulling plays to the left.

 

[irishfanjho15]

A few amateurish thoughts:

1). terrible to lose a good fellow and a good guy at any time, but especially an OLineman who was gluing together our Fist of Five Fingers. Stepping in there is more than an alteration due to one shift of a chess piece.

2). Steve is a great young player. He is not an ideal guard from all my previous data --- we will see. Lombard had two good strengths in the running game: he could crash down towards the center --- Elmer will do that well. He could pull and get to the leftside hole-to-be effectively. Steve is not quite "shaped" classically to do that --- we'll have to watch closely to see.

3). This tells us all anyone should need to know about Hanratty [unless he too is hurt; that I don't know]. Most of us were nervous about him being quick and strong enough for starter during Spring and August camps; we speculated about Elmer and Stanley due to that. It appears that we had very good reason.

4). This situation shows us how perilously thin we've become on the OLine, and why the Five Freshman Mountains [and even five more this cycle] are vital. All praise Coach Hiestand!

5). Going forward, we're probably OK as long as guys like Watt can hang in there like the warriors that they are. Olines usually play the whole game if healthy anyway. If subs are needed, I'm betting on the frosh, Bivin and McGlinchey, as the personnel Kelly uses [mid-line and tackle respectively]. If Watt [GOD forbid], I'd bet Bivin. If Stanley [GOD forbid], I'd bet Bivin still, and Elmer to tackle. If TWO [Give us a Break!!], then McGlinchey is NMI.

What this seems to do is put more potential into blowing Bivin's redshirt, and us getting a little slower on pulling plays to the left.

Prof,

Well done. Here, here.

 

[Sherm Sticky]

Damn this sucks! Prayers for full recovery.

 

[tadman95]

Bad news for sure. Speedy and full recovery Christian!!

How does a 4th year player, a starter, only have three pages and 108 posts? How dare he come in, do the work, and give us nothing to moan, whine, gripe about? Must do better!

 

[NDinL.A.]

Bad bews for sure. Speedy and full recovery Christian!!

How does a 4th year player, a starter, only have three pages and 108 posts? How dare he come in, do the work, and give us nothing to moan, whine, gripe about? Must do better!

No recruiting drama, it's that simple. He named ND his leader, he committed very early, and he never swayed, even when CW was fired. CRAZY recruitment in this day and age lol...

 

[BMT]

Solid player, should be back as a 5th year starter next year!

 

[Old Man Mike]

The other reason that Christian has only "108" posts is that typical football fans really don't know, nor want to know, much about real football as a team sport. If they did, they'd be constantly interested in how the Big Boys are doing. AND if the staffs thought that the fans were really interested in such matters [rather than just how the next "cover boy" needs to improve to quit fumbling or run the correct route] they'd actually talk more about the intricacies and subtleties and tribulations of the lines.

How many times have we suddenly by surprise heard that "X" has been playing for several games with an "Z" injury? Pathetically, the "fans" typically say a momentary "oh gee" about the news, and promptly go back to hatred or worship of their favorite cover boy. And.... how many times have we never heard at all?

As a brother of THREE D1 college linemen, I find this insufficient recognition of the big fellas appalling and this drives my constant hyping of our needs in these areas over these last three+ years that I've been posting here. And my irritating whining about this seems to have had a little effect, as more "nice things" are now being said about our linemen [by far] than when I began reading. For the irritation, I apologize. For the heightened awareness, I do not.

The remaining unsolvable is the profound ignorance of most fans about the play-by-play significance of what each lineman did on that play to allow the team to function or flop. Many times the big boys were the heroes, and sometimes not so much. When they have their breakdowns, often the cover boy will get undeserved blame. We're not very good at recognizing this. If we actually cared, we'd have grade-out analyses for each lineman after each game, not just who carried what for what yards or who caught what balls.

 

[Luckylucci]

Per Sampson, projected recovery is 6 to 8 weeks. Prognosis for a full recovery is "very, very good" He has been playing through a lot of pain all season and it was just a matter of time before this needed to be done. They removed 4 centimeters of a disc that was pressing on a nerve.

 

[ulukinatme]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Collinsworth, Lombard, Moore, Utupo back for 5th years at <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NotreDame&src=hash">#NotreDame</a>, sources tell <a href="https://twitter.com/espn">@espn</a> <a href="http://t.co/UIdh9TDj7x">http://t.co/UIdh9TDj7x</a> 1st reported by <a href="https://twitter.com/NDatRivals">@NDatRivals</a></p>— Matt Fortuna (@Matt_Fortuna) <a href="https://twitter.com/Matt_Fortuna/statuses/423931796271529984">January 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[Sherm Sticky]

Exactly what I expected. would have liked Welch to stay around.

 

[WestCoast]

free rivals story: IrishIllustrated.com - Lombard's time to lead arrives

 

[ResLife Hero]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Irish A-to-Z: Christian*Lombard <a href="http://t.co/pDppQ4svYe">http://t.co/pDppQ4svYe</a></p>— Keith Arnold (@KeithArnold) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeithArnold/statuses/490602330929127424">July 19, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[Ignats]

Done with this guy. Bring in Mcglinchey, can't be worse than him today.

 

[Irish2155]

He wasn't very good tonight, at all.

 

[tko]

Bring in fkn Hanratty somewhere, Jesus.

 

[dublinirish]

kid just can't move his feet. Speed rushers are killing him and Elmer is probably no better unfortunately