UNI recruit for 2013 tears ACL and is done for his high school career

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https://twitter.com/joehoopsreport/status/231762510590664705

wow - tough break for UNI recruit Robert Knar of Mundelein...torn ACL. I recall when BU recruit Eric Roberson tore his ACL (repeat) during his senior year, but made a nice recovery and ended up with a nearly 900 point career!

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https://twitter.com/joehoopsreport/s...62510590664705

wow - tough break for UNI recruit Robert Knar of Mundelein...torn ACL. I recall when BU recruit Eric Roberson tore his ACL (repeat) during his senior year, but made a nice recovery and ended up with a nearly 900 point career!

They have come a long way in terms of procedure, drugs and rehab that if you put in the work you can be practically as good as new. It also helps being young! I wish the kid luck!

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here's a story on Robert Knar - sounds like a nice kid - great numbers his high school junior year, wonder why we weren't onto him way harder - 22.3 ppg, 7.6 rpg, 6.1 assists, 2.4 steals!!!!!
... - done for the entire senior season -- hard to know how he'll do until he gets to college as there won't be any more competition for him 'til fall of 2013 if he still lands at UNI

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120808/sports/708089610/

of interest is that one of the remaining healthy teammates he has at Mundelein is Sean O'Brien, the kid who Bradley had on campus last Friday...
But this morning the Sun Times has Mundelein written up as the one team in the Chitown-area that fell the farthest on the potential list....maybe that gives O'Brien a big open opportunity..

http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoopsreport/2012/08/school_is_starting_and_these_p.html

Here's another articles that list O'Brien's offers just before BU got involved...
"Northern Illinois, Belmont, Elon and Florida Gulf Coast....another offer came in earlier this week: Nebraska-Omaha."

http://mundelein.suntimes.com/sports/13630589-419/boys-basketball-mundeleins-sean-obrien-has-five-scholarship-offers-so-far.html

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latest reports say Knar will try to rehab aggressively and aim to be back in time for the IHSA playoffs next spring... good for him....

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Robert Knar has made a remarkable recovery and actually started for Mundelein last night - his return to play along with teammate Sean O'brien makes them a very strong team

http://newssun.suntimes.com/sports/18099085-419/knars-back-and-so-are-cats.html

[BUBalum05]

They have come leaps and bounds with ACL reconstruction even in the last 10 years. I had a friend whose first surgery 12 years ago unknowingly completely dissolved to the point that she was having hip pain in her opposite side of the repaired ACL. Her new orthopedic doc figured it out right away, MRI'd it, and redid the surgery with a different method and she was back to running marathons in 7 months.

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I know - and not all ACL injuries are exactly the same - some way worse and more difficult than others..
but to be back on the floor and playing in less than 6 months after surgery is indeed quite an unusual accomplishment.

[Da Coach]

Robert Knar, a 2013 recruit and now about to start his sophomore year at Northern Iowa, missed nearly all of his senior season at Mundelein HS with an ACL tear he suffered in July, 2012. He came back surprisingly quick to play in the last few games of his senior season. Then last September, while scrimmaging at Northern Iowa, he tore the same ACL again, forcing him to redshirt his freshman year.
Now he is hoping to make a second comeback-

http://www.highschoolcubenews.com/news_article/show/407883?referrer_id=677720