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Tres Lobos
10-17-2009, 01:01 AM
Prayers needed for our quarterback, his high school career may indeed be over after suffering a fracture in his vertebrae. :(
ccmom
10-17-2009, 01:07 AM
Prayers sent. Please keep us posted.
Move The Chains
10-17-2009, 01:09 AM
Originally posted by Tres Lobos
Prayers needed for our quarterback, his high school career may indeed be over after suffering a fracture in his vertebrae. :( omg. So sorry to hear. Prayers for sure! and please keep us posted. :(
Tres Lobos
10-17-2009, 01:12 AM
Thanks for the prayers. He's headed to see a neurologist right now, left on a stretcher.
Move The Chains
10-17-2009, 01:15 AM
Definitely!


Let us know when you get an update. We always love to hear success stories and we expect no different this time!


God will work his magic with young man! :clap:
garciap77
10-17-2009, 01:16 AM
Prayers from Wylie!
SHSBulldog00
10-17-2009, 01:17 AM
Prayers from Sweeny
cr180t
10-17-2009, 01:19 AM
Prayers from Snyder.
GetRDoneStangs
10-17-2009, 01:26 AM
Prayers from Sweetwater....hope he recovers
44INAROW
10-17-2009, 01:44 AM
Sure hope he's OK and able to make a complete recovery :(
wtfootball
10-17-2009, 02:32 AM
That kid has much more going for him than football. I am praying for him and hope they get him to a competent specialist. He is an outstanding young man.
injuredinmelee
10-17-2009, 06:42 AM
prayers for a full recovery.
Looking4number8
10-17-2009, 07:47 AM
Prayers from Brownwood!
Pudlugger
10-17-2009, 08:09 AM
Prayers from La Grange for a full recovery.
Bullaholic
10-17-2009, 08:47 AM
Prayers from Bull Country. What a tremendous athlete and team leader this young man has been. I hope he can continue---Texas HS football will be the better for it. I wish him a speedy and complete recovery.
STANG RED
10-17-2009, 10:06 AM
Man I hate to hear this about Titus. Hope he can make a complete recovery.
Torb
10-17-2009, 10:27 AM
Prayers from Lamesa, Quincy is an outstanding young man...
Z-RO
10-17-2009, 10:36 AM
That is horrible news, I read about it last night and was hoping there was nothing serious coming. Damn shame, prayers sent for the 2nd time...:(
Tres Lobos
10-17-2009, 10:43 AM
Quincy will have to have surgery and won't play again for the rest of this season. We need to be thankful that the injury was not any worse than it is and continue to pray.
95mustang
10-17-2009, 11:45 AM
More Prayers from Brownwood. I know the community of Monahans will be behind this young man. They have a gret community out there.
DukeNukem
10-17-2009, 02:23 PM
just heard from 2 different people that Quincy will have surgery Sunday afternoon after the swelling has gone down. he should make a full recovery after 4-5 months. his high school playing career is over but he is a team captain and will continue to be a great team leader.

on a football note, others will just have to step up as the loboes still have a great shot at a long playoff run.
lostaussie
10-17-2009, 02:28 PM
terrible news and i hate to hear this about any player. sounds like the prognosis is good and I wish the best for this young man in the future.
OldNavy
10-17-2009, 02:42 PM
Prayers from here. Hope his recovery is swift and complete.
DaHop72
10-17-2009, 04:16 PM
Prayers for a complete recovery for Quincy.
WTF-82
10-17-2009, 07:01 PM
Your Lord Jesus will see you throuh this Quincy !!! Have Faith!

This is the text I had my sister send him on his phone she knows him personally !!
pirate4state
10-17-2009, 07:06 PM
:(

Such a terrible way to have your career end. Prayers that he remain positive and strong so that he may have a full recovery.
BullsFan
10-17-2009, 07:25 PM
Oh, what terrible terrible news. Prayers sent tonight, and will definitely be praying tomorrow during his surgery.
Green Bling
10-17-2009, 08:29 PM
Prayers from Cuero for Quincey's complete and speedy recovery.
sinton66
10-17-2009, 08:53 PM
Prayers for a speedy and complete recovery from Sinton (via Deer Park)
skins4life
10-17-2009, 09:10 PM
Prayers from here for Titus and for a speedy recovery!!!
slpybear the bullfan
10-19-2009, 09:18 AM
Prayers from Bridgeport...
DUKE22
10-19-2009, 09:25 AM
He is for sure in our prayers. He is a great quarterback and was also a polite well spoken young man. Good luck on a healthy recovery.
weenman33
10-19-2009, 10:20 AM
Prayers sent to Quincy and his family hope he gets through this with a full recovery!!!

sad thing abou this is a bunch of the andrews fans yelled hitem harder when they knew he was hurt pretty bad while going off the field...
hollywood
10-19-2009, 10:28 AM
More prayers from Brownwood and Stephenville! It's always a downer to hear of kids getting serious injuries in high school sports. May he have a positive recovery and a successful outcome. Monahans can rally around his leadership. Best wishes!
DukeNukem
10-20-2009, 01:04 PM
Heard Quincy had surgery this morning to realign and fuse his vertebrae. Was told surgery went well and he should be able to go home in the next day or 2.
westtxfballfan
10-20-2009, 01:42 PM
Originally posted by DukeNukem
Heard Quincy had surgery this morning to realign and fuse his vertebrae. Was told surgery went well and he should be able to go home in the next day or 2.

Good to hear.
old dragon
10-20-2009, 03:53 PM
Prayers from Gilmer via Rockwall,God is good all the time.May his blessings continue in this young man's life.
BullsFan
10-21-2009, 08:50 AM
Originally posted by DukeNukem
Heard Quincy had surgery this morning to realign and fuse his vertebrae. Was told surgery went well and he should be able to go home in the next day or 2.

So glad to hear that things went well. Continued well wishes going his way, and please keep us updated as you can.
tex_male
10-21-2009, 02:33 PM
BY Willie Bans ~ Odessa American http://varsity.oaoa.com/articles/season-4857-bans-stays.html


Willie Bans says: Titus stays upbeat after season-ending neck injury
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October 20, 2009 10:43 PM
BY WILLIE BANS
“I ran my hardest. I’m not saying I have next year because it’s not always promised. But you have to give it your best and if it doesn’t come out like you like, you’ve got to suck it up and go to the next thing. That’s life.”

—Monahans’ Quincy Titus at the Region I-3A Track Championships on May 23 in Lubbock, after missing a Class 3A state berth in the 110-meter hurdles by 12 tenths of a second.



In one second, on one hit Friday, Quincy Titus lost his season and the No. 5 Monahans Loboes their senior quarterback, but nothing ever steals his perspective.

It was still there Tuesday afternoon in a room at Medical Center Hospital, hours after surgeons fused together vertebrae on his broken neck, an injury that could have been much worse and was bad enough to allow any player in Titus’ situation sulk or huff, whatever makes him feel better.

Titus is out for the season, begun with state-title talk, backed up by dominant, undefeated results thus far.

He will not be with the senior group described as special since they were in junior high, the class of 2010 capable of the extraordinary.

From here on, Titus will wear a neck brace, not a helmet. He will roam the sideline, not the end zone.

But he is walking, not paralyzed. The season, even without Titus, continues.

It is an outlook good enough for him.

“It sucks,” Titus said. “But when I heard that I had a broken neck, I really didn’t care for it. I want them to go far, but I wanted my life to continue, too, so I really didn’t think about it.

“I know they can do whatever they want to do. It would be fun to do it with them, but I have no doubt in the world that they can do what they want to do.”

First and foremost, the Loboes would have wanted Titus to not endure the hit near the end of a run on a first-and-10 early in the third quarter against Andrews. The first tackler took out his legs, causing Titus to fall forward, and the second came in and hit him helmet-to-helmet, not a dirty hit, Monahans head coach Mickey Owens agreed.

Titus said his chin hit his chest. He was first examined for a concussion, but the pressing and prodding hurt too much. Wobbly legged, Titus was flanked by trainers and escorted off the field to the bench. His neck was swollen, but the ice applied to the area made him cry because of the pain.

A CAT scan hours later revealed the broken neck, and he was hospitalized.

All this on the same day the Monahans 1948 Class A state champion team convened in town for just the second time since winning the school’s only state football crown.

All this during a season in which the Loboes were as good a pick as any — and by many — to go all the way.

Owens was with him that night and has visited him every day since.

Yet there was no weaving of a sob story.

“We never even talked about the season or him being out,” Owens said. “I’m sure he’s talked to his parents about it, and that’s fine with me. But his health is the most important thing.”

Just below are the remaining three regular-season games and the preparation for whatever confronts them afterward.

To their credit, the Loboes truly do talk about district titles and playoffs and championships like they do their Wing-T offense. The chatter, Owens said, will not be permanently somber.

“By no means is this the end of the season,” Owens said. “That’s with whoever would have went down. We roll along. I told them Monday morning, ‘Our goals and expectations have not changed, not one bit.’ We still have goals to go deep in the playoffs, the same expectations.”

Titus, named District 3-3A’s co-offensive MVP last year, will be missed. The get-well-soon messages on a green sign in his hospital room could attest:

“Love You Q, Rex #5” … “We miss you — MHS is not the same without you here — Mrs. Linton.”

On the sign was a nickname used mostly by his friend, senior receiver Isaac Sotelo: Legend, because he looks like the actor Will Smith, who played the lead character in the film ‘I Am Legend.’

The Loboes’ ideal script: An undefeated season, a state championship led by Titus, the quarterback given the keys to the program since junior high, all by the same group of players who have been playing together since pee-wee football.

The time frame: 1948, then 2009. Two teams made legendary in the small town’s lore.

But on Tuesday afternoon Titus, with his mother sitting bedside, said there will still be a 2010 and a 2011 and a 2012 and so on.

For him and Monahans.

“The Lord blessed him,” said his mother, Cynthia Payton. “He blessed him real good when he wasn’t paralyzed. There’s something great up ahead for him. What it is, I don’t know.”

That, Titus has said before, is life.
Tres Lobos
10-22-2009, 09:38 PM
Quincy is still in the hospital... Had to have another surgery earlier this evening but is still doing well....:confused:
DukeNukem
10-22-2009, 10:13 PM
Word at the JV games tonight was Quincy had surgery again this afternoon. Doctor was not satisfied with the first alignment. The doctor had to go in from 2 places and said it was one of the most difficult surgeries he has ever done due to the thick muscles in his shoulders and neck which is a result of being such a well developed athlete.

Doctor was supposedly happy with the results this time.:clap: