North Carolina
UNC's Bernard did not travel with team
Published: 2012-09-14 17:32:00
Updated: 2012-09-15 08:15:24
Sep 15, 2012
Chapel Hill, N.C. — University of North Carolina running back Gio Bernard did not travel with the team to Louisville Friday according to the school and his status for Saturday's game is uncertain.
Bernard, who had also been returning punts, was seen practicing earlier in the week with a brace on his left knee. On Wednesday, head coach Larry Fedora said that Bernard had not missed any reps in practice and that he “looked good.”
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Bernard, last season’s ACC Freshman of the Year, scored three touchdowns in the first half of the opener against Elon before injuring his left knee. He did not return to the field for the second half of the opener and was also forced to sit out last week’s 28-27 loss to Wake Forest.
In Bernard’s absence, A.J. Blue and Romar Morris received most of the carries against the Demon Deacons. Blue has three touchdowns on 28 carries totaling 145 yards to lead the Tar Heels in all three categories.
Roy Smith filled in for Bernard on punt returns last week. He totaled 28 yards on three returns with a long of 16 yards.
Louisville (2-0, 0-0 Big East) has yet to give up 100 yards total rushing in a game this year. They held Missouri State to 99 yards last week and Kentucky to 93 yards in the opener.
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RE: UNC's Bernard did not travel with team
Lost in all of the insane banter on here is the fact that the kid should not have gotten nicked up in the Elon game that easy. What happened to him was pretty normal contact, if even a bit light. Many athletes take on multiple roles such as defense/kickoff/special teams, and do fine. Gio seems to be a bit on the fragile side and this may indicate he will not have the durability for the NFL. You can have talent, but you have to stay healthy, and many a great athlete has had their career cut short due to the inability to stay healthy. Which is why it's amazing to me how someone like RW and guys like Farve, Elway, Emmitt Smith stayed healthy for so many years because they did take the shots. Just the luck of the draw in the gene pool (Ref: Tiger Woods knees)
- Posted by Dr. Feelgood
If what you're saying is right (he was too easily injured) then he might just have TA McClendon Syndrome. I swear that some of that dude's bones were made of GLASS.
And his recreational devices made of acrylic.
Better
Excuse time for UNC again if they fall to the Ville!
- Posted by Toddler10-21
Uh...the article was not written by a Tar Heel fan. You haters are hilarious because you can't get a fact straight even when it's tatooed on your head with a big backwards "L".
what???
he merely claimed that bernard being out was a "built-in excuse" for hole fans after louisville plasters them... this article being written has lil (read- NOTHING) to do with that reality (that hole fans will whine about not having gio after louisville plants them in the mud).
try and keep up.
No "Gio" in team there DebbieSAC. I did not see him say anything about a "built in excuse". Hmmm, you girls have matching collars to wear when out on the town together since you seem to want to tell us what HE was thinking?
I'm so far ahead of you when you post I get the monthly rate at the Embassy Suites so I can relax while you stuggle to kiss the ground I walked on 4 months ago.
Just in case you didn't know, you just got pwnd so badly, we will have to send out to the US State Dept. for extra pages to get stamped by me in your Troll Passport.
Dang, pwnd once more. Quit crossing the blog road, you are getting flattened worse than a opossum trying to cross the Inner Beltline.
Now, these were funny!
RE: UNC's Bernard did not travel with team
When UNC lost aganist Wake there were several posts blaming the loss on Bernard being hurt. But UNC had two goo back ups that played well enough to win. Your defense lost the game. Who cares who wrote the article!!!
- Posted by Toddler10-21
Yep, backups played fine. YOu were whining like the clutch on an old Oliver tractor about excuses. Uh...let's see hater, I have not seen anyone "blame" the loss on Bernard. We stunk it up on offense and defense. I posted an eloquent monologue about it. So not sure of the red fogged images you see in your imagination but you are seeing them due to the Cranial Red Rash,
"Eloquent?". Excuse me while I go barf. :7)
RE: UNC's Bernard did not travel with team
Excuse time for UNC again if they fall to the Ville!
- Posted by Toddler10-21
Uh...the article was not written by a Tar Heel fan. You haters are hilarious because you can't get a fact straight even when it's tatooed on your head with a big backwards "L".
what???
he merely claimed that bernard being out was a "built-in excuse" for hole fans after louisville plasters them... this article being written has lil (read- NOTHING) to do with that reality (that hole fans will whine about not having gio after louisville plants them in the mud).
try and keep up.
No "Gio" in team there DebbieSAC. I did not see him say anything about a "built in excuse". Hmmm, you girls have matching collars to wear when out on the town together since you seem to want to tell us what HE was thinking?
I'm so far ahead of you when you post I get the monthly rate at the Embassy Suites so I can relax while you stuggle to kiss the ground I walked on 4 months ago.
Just in case you didn't know, you just got pwnd so badly, we will have to send out to the US State Dept. for extra pages to get stamped by me in your Troll Passport.
Dang, pwnd once more. Quit crossing the blog road, you are getting flattened worse than a opossum trying to cross the Inner Beltline.
RE: UNC's Bernard did not travel with team
When UNC lost aganist Wake there were several posts blaming the loss on Bernard being hurt. But UNC had two goo back ups that played well enough to win. Your defense lost the game. Who cares who wrote the article!!!
- Posted by Toddler10-21
Yep, backups played fine. YOu were whining like the clutch on an old Oliver tractor about excuses. Uh...let's see hater, I have not seen anyone "blame" the loss on Bernard. We stunk it up on offense and defense. I posted an eloquent monologue about it. So not sure of the red fogged images you see in your imagination but you are seeing them due to the Cranial Red Rash,
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