Rudy Carpenter to have surgery

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Arizona State quarterback Rudy Carpenter will have minor surgery Wednesday on the thumb on his throwing hand.

"I should be good to go in a couple weeks," Carpenter said on Tuesday. "It doesn't worry me. I should be throwing right around the beginning of June."

Carpenter, a senior, hurt his thumb handing off to teammate Keegan Herring in the California game last October. Carpenter, who has started 31 straight games, played with the injury the rest of the season.

"Maybe it affected my accuracy a little bit," he said. "Maybe it took away from my velocity a little. But you can make up for that by making good decisions."

I guess we will never know how much the thumb injury really affected Carpenter's performance, but it looks like the injury was so much more serious than we were led to believe. 

 I say that because there seemed to be no real hard report about it last season other than the usual 'Carpenters' thumb appears to be sore' and 'it looks as if the nagging thumb injury may be bothering the QB today.' 

  Now we know, and hopefully this 'minor' proceedure will solve all that is wrong with the thumb.

GO DEVILS!!!