'11 GA DE Stephon Tuitt (Signed Notre Dame LOI)

[NankerPhelge]

Thanks! It was awesome news to wake up to. Hopefully, the excitement will be with me when they get me up in the morning to start my rehab. I have to walk to the end of the hall and back. If the "Pit Bull" can get Tuitt back, I can do this. Thats what I'm telling myself anyway. In case some of you are wondering what the helll TLIf is, it is short for "Tansforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion". They take some bone grafts from your Illiac Crest and fuse your lumbar vertebrea. Slap some plates, screws and rods in and, hopefully, your good to go. At least thats what the doc said.

Man, that sounds like pure hell. Best of luck to you.

 

[NankerPhelge]

All the best, bigedefense. I hope the procedure proves successful. DO YOUR "LAPS!"

Six years ago I had 18 inches of artery in my left thigh replaced with Gore-Tex™ in a femoral-popliteal bypass. I, too, was encouraged to walk the halls as soon as a few tubes here and there were disconnected.

My dogged perseverance not only made me a regular and welcome sight with the staff at the station on the floor, it shortened my hospital stay by two days. When I made my final "victory lap" to thank everyone while I awaited the wheelchair to shuttle me out of the hospital, I was given an ovation.

I wish you good luck, welcome you back and look forward to your posts as Irish football continues its upward path.

I am very glad this all worked out for you the way it did. You must be a pretty tough old bird. What I am really, really, curious about, though, is how you got that little TM next to Gore-Tex. That really looks cool.

 

[rikkitikki08]

Thanks! It was awesome news to wake up to. Hopefully, the excitement will be with me when they get me up in the morning to start my rehab. I have to walk to the end of the hall and back. If the "Pit Bull" can get Tuitt back, I can do this. Thats what I'm telling myself anyway. In case some of you are wondering what the helll TLIf is, it is short for "Tansforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion". They take some bone grafts from your Illiac Crest and fuse your lumbar vertebrea. Slap some plates, screws and rods in and, hopefully, your good to go. At least thats what the doc said.

You need someone to slowly start chanting RUDY RUDY RUDY as you make your way down the hall way, in all seriousness get well soon buddy

 

[BGIF]

Thanks! It was awesome news to wake up to. Hopefully, the excitement will be with me when they get me up in the morning to start my rehab. I have to walk to the end of the hall and back. If the "Pit Bull" can get Tuitt back, I can do this. Thats what I'm telling myself anyway. In case some of you are wondering what the helll TLIf is, it is short for "Tansforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion". They take some bone grafts from your Illiac Crest and fuse your lumbar vertebrea. Slap some plates, screws and rods in and, hopefully, your good to go. At least thats what the doc said.

I pm'd Longo. He says he'll have you doing up downs by Saturday. Two a days by Monday.

Watch out for the Physical Terrorists.

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

I pm'd Longo. He says he'll have you doing up downs by Saturday. Two a days by Monday.

Watch out for the Physical Terrorists.

They are too sexy.

 

[eNDzone]

Thanks! It was awesome news to wake up to. Hopefully, the excitement will be with me when they get me up in the morning to start my rehab. I have to walk to the end of the hall and back. If the "Pit Bull" can get Tuitt back, I can do this. Thats what I'm telling myself anyway. In case some of you are wondering what the helll TLIf is, it is short for "Tansforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion". They take some bone grafts from your Illiac Crest and fuse your lumbar vertebrea. Slap some plates, screws and rods in and, hopefully, your good to go. At least thats what the doc said.

I'm a CNC machinist in the spinal medical field. Don't know if you got any of my implants in you but I hope your recovery goes well.

 

[PLACforever]

good luck dude

 

[jmurphy75]

Thanks! It was awesome news to wake up to. Hopefully, the excitement will be with me when they get me up in the morning to start my rehab. I have to walk to the end of the hall and back. If the "Pit Bull" can get Tuitt back, I can do this. Thats what I'm telling myself anyway. In case some of you are wondering what the helll TLIf is, it is short for "Tansforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion". They take some bone grafts from your Illiac Crest and fuse your lumbar vertebrea. Slap some plates, screws and rods in and, hopefully, your good to go. At least thats what the doc said.

Good luck with everything, we wish you a speedy recovery!

 

[Me2SouthBend]

Paging Dr. Diaco.

 

[irishandy]

WOW! I go in for TLIF surgery yesterday afternoon and the last thing I read is Tuitt is GT verbal. I am in my bed tonight and I get online and the first thing I see is (Notre Dame Verbal)! I let out an obviously loud yell and 3 nurses come running into my room. They thought I had fallen out of my bed. I told them the great news and they tried to take my laptop away from me. NOT SO FAST MY FRIEND, I told them. I have some catching up to do. I am not allowed to get excited or they take it away (and told me they would take my morphine pump away) if I yelled again for something like that. Won't be online long tonight, so if some more Earth shattering news comes up, would someone PM me so I can stay up on the happenings. I will get to go home in a few days and hopefully, part of my rehab will be putting in several hours a day on Irish Envy. WELCOME BACK STEPHON!!!!

Hey Big D,
I hope you have a speedy recovery!!! To all who has said this class has great moms- I agree. For anyone who has access there is a story at Irish Illustrated: Tuitt opens up about Irish comeback.

 

[Ironman8]

Freebie from Scout:

For one day, Notre Dame had lost Stephon Tuitt from its 2011 recruiting class. On Tuesday, the 5-star defensive end from Monroe High School (Ga.) de-committed from Notre Dame and committed to Georgia Tech. On Wednesday night, after a meeting with the Notre Dame staff, Tuitt recommitted to the Irish.

Stephon Tuitt is one of the most important recruits in Notre Dame’s recruiting class, and Brian Kelly wanted him to know that. On Wednesday night, coach Kelly, coach Bob Diaco, coach Mike Elston and coach Chuck Martin met with Tuitt to see if they could get him back on board. By the time the four Notre Dame coaches left, the answer was yes.

“Coach Kelly and the coaches came down for an in-home visit,” Tuitt recalled. “That was the first time that I had talked to him (Kelly) in a while and I got some things off my chest that I wanted answered. There were some little things and some big things. We talked about everything and I got my answers.

“The little things actually turned into big things. Like what can you do up there in wintertime and what goes on up there. They’re probably little things to some people, but to me they were big things.”

A lot made of Georgia Tech being the local school and Notre Dame being far away, but Tuitt wasn’t as much worried about the distance as he was about making a final decision.

“It didn’t play a lot into it, but the distance was in the back of my mind, because this would be taking me out of my comfort zone,” he said. “Talking to some people like my grandma, I know that I’m going to have a lot of support. I think I just got really nervous and that’s it.”

Recommitting to Notre Dame actually turned out to be an easy decision for Stephon. He had committed to the school for specific reasons and the reasons he liked Notre Dame never changed.

“It’s all the things that I always liked about Notre Dame,” Tuitt explained. “It’s a great school and when I went up there I had a great time. Just thinking back to why I made my original decision, all the tradition, the history and the education… it was unbelievable. “

When asked if there were a chance that he would reconsider his commitment to Notre Dame in the days leading up to signing day, Stephon’s response was quick and decisive.

"Everything has definitely been shut done," he said. "I'm done."

Scout.com: Tuitt: "I'm done"

 

[rtrn2glory]

Let's hope he's for real!!

 

[Me2SouthBend]

Freebie from ND Central, Inside the Irish

Friday notes: Tuitt, Diaco’s D, Recruiting and more | Inside the Irish

 

[irishandy]

Tuitt will be ND come NSD, not only is this kid a 5 * football recruit, he is a 5 * standout person (just like Lynch and Williams). I think once he gets here, gets associated with the team and the incoming class he'll adjust fine.

 

[tankjeep]

what a week huh? too bad i've been sick for the past few days & missed all the fun. welcome back tuitt, you're home now.

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

Freebie from ND Central, Inside the Irish

Friday notes: Tuitt, Diaco’s D, Recruiting and more | Inside the Irish

Is it a coincidence that there would be a Chuck Norris reference after IE had been comparing him all week?!

 

[RyCo1983]

people must pay attention to IE...or we have members here that are people at high levels in the recruiting game.

 

[Old Man Mike]

If I was employed as a writer with constant deadlines, I'd be monitoring all the good fan sites for ideas. Hard to keep up that pace on your own. This fellow is probably pretty good; others are, as we have seen, desperate hacks who put any old thing out there---proving that it's a rare bird who can consistently deliver good sports writing.

So, it seems IE has an even greater role in forming the entirety of thinking about the college football universe than we thought. I'll bet we could get Rich Rodriguez fired if we just worked at it...WHOA!! Boy, we ARE football, afterall!!...but I guess most of you already knew that.

 

[AdmiralBackhand]

Keith Arnold at NBC is awesome. Enough said.

 

[Ironman8]

Tough week for GT. After losing Tuitt (however briefly they "had" him), they lose their other 4 star DE, Darrius Caldwell from Atlanta to Illinois. They now have 0 DEs in their class. Tough to lose two major talents at DE when trying to run a 3-4, especially both from your backyard.

 

[irish4ever]

Tough week for GT. After losing Tuitt (however briefly they "had" him), they lose their other 4 star DE, Darrius Caldwell from Atlanta to Illinois. They now have 0 DEs in their class. Tough to lose two major talents at DE when trying to run a 3-4, especially both from your backyard.

It sux to be a Yellow Jacket, huh?

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

It's Georgia Freakin Tech. Nuff said.

bad program? no. middle of the road. but if they have expectations of going head to head with the big boys for 4 and 5 star recruits, they're going to be disappointed. often.

 

[nd1]

they will be ok. they run johnsons offence that keeps their d off the field. as long as the offence does ok they will be fine.

 

[RallySonsOfND]

It sux to be a Yellow Jacket, huh?

It ALWAYS sucks to be a Yellow Jacket.

 

[RyCo1983]

It ALWAYS sucks to be a Yellow Jacket.

hahahaha it must!
Tuitt...you made the right choice son!

 

[irishff1014]

They are goingto struggle against the ACC again this year. They will be lucky to finish in the top 3

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

From our friends over at StingTalk:

Re: Darrius Caldwell Decommits

"I've heard it on here before and I'll now say it again, being a GT fan is like a daily kick in the nuts. "
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[RyCo1983]

From our friends over at StingTalk:

Re: Darrius Caldwell Decommits

"I've heard it on here before and I'll now say it again, being a GT fan is like a daily kick in the nuts. "
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maybe we should send them a fruit basket to cheer them up

 

[nd1]

From our friends over at StingTalk:

Re: Darrius Caldwell Decommits

"I've heard it on here before and I'll now say it again, being a GT fan is like a daily kick in the nuts. "
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now thats some funny sh*t. but we felt that way before.

 

[BurningRiver]

From our friends over at StingTalk:

Re: Darrius Caldwell Decommits

"I've heard it on here before and I'll now say it again, being a GT fan is like a daily kick in the nuts. "
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psh thats nothin.
i'm a cleveland fan. i get four daily kicks in the nuts, courtesy of the browns indians and cavs, as well as one every day from lebron himself.