Read about this in flash-text from Gator Zone earlier today--couldn't BELIEVE we lost another 1st stringer this way, and STILL can't quite get over how much this continues to be a "bad luck season". I haven't said that before, don't LIKE to even go down the self-pity/make-excuses road, you know? But I think it is accurate, AND late enough in the season to stop worrying about things like "how it sounds"--to ourselves, to others, or whether it offers an "out" to the players. At this point, they all can see it as well as we can, the "good ones" will go on stolidly and, if anything, work harder; the rest, well, if they were looking for excuses or reasons to "let up" that was already happening in most cases--if Coach Boom is able to identify a few more it's all to the good (if "good" is the word--anyway, we don't need or want the quitters, OR the ones who are just out for themselves).
As for Roberson himself, his season-ender won't HELP us win the rest of the way, obviously, but as long as he recovers fully from it, we DO get to look at and work the backups, which will either help with depth, or show us that we can't count on THESE guys. Roberson has been up and down as a player, showing flashes of the talent that made him a valued prospect, but he has had some crucial misses and generally poor play as well--seeing other young men prospering in his place, and/or new recruits brought in that can fill those positions in the spring could have a sobering motivational effect on him.
