Mitz-igating Circumstances

(This article originally appeared on www.cougzone.com.)

A fall signee of Bill Doba's Cougars, Logwone Mitz had hoped to visit Boise State for several months, but recently gave up the efforts when he realized he was "pretty good right where he was."

"I was trying to set up the Boise visit for awhile, but they weren't going to offer unless I visited," Mitz said Monday. "And I already had a good offer."


Mitz visits with doctors tomorrow, hoping to be cleared to return to the basketball court. He has missed the entire season after suffering a fractured tibia in the fifth game of his senior football campaign.

"I was in stride on like the two yard line, and somebody just came across the back left side," said Mitz. "When he hit the right back leg, it turned the whole ankle, cracked the tibia. But I walked off the field."

Remarkably, Mitz walked around on the broken leg, and even tried to summon the energy to return to action in the fourth quarter.

"I just thought I rolled it real bad," Mitz said.

Unable to put pressure on the leg, Mitz did not return to action. After the pain increased over the next three weeks, he began walking on the leg with the aid of crutches, and eventually walked on the injury unassisted in late November. However, near the start of December, an MRI revealed that what Mitz and his coaches had thought was a sprain was actually a fractured tibia.

Remarkably, Mitz never wore a cast, boot, or other restrictive device on his foot. "Just some ice now and then," Mitz said.

The Washington State staff has been supportive during Mitz's recovery, and he expects to be at full strength for a summer evaluation with the Cougar staff regardless of the outcome.