ISU's Scoggins lost for season

AMES — Iowa State football Coach Paul Rhoads announced Tuesday red-shirt junior and backup center Patrick Scoggins ruptured a tendon that attaches his quad to his patella and will miss the entire season.

The Cyclones lost backup center Ben Loth to a season-ending knee injury on the first day of fall camp last season.

'I try not to ever allow myself to be frustrated,' Rhoads said. 'It's a part of the game, you know it's part of the game. It's a violent game and a game played with force.'

Scoggins was taking reps at center behind red-shirt senior Jamison Lalk, but played left tackle at Long Beach Community College in 2014. Before his two seasons at Long Beach, Scoggins was red-shirted as a walk-on in 2012 at Sacramento State.

Rhoads said the Inglewood, Calif. native will lose a year of eligibility and have one year to play in 2016.

'In 27 years of coaching, I've never had this injury on any team I've ever been associated with,' Rhoads said. 'That makes you scratch your head a little bit, but you move on. The next guy stands up and takes over where that one left off.'

Lalk still is listed atop the depth chart as the starting center — with red-shirt sophomore Nick Severs as the new backup — and has some experience starting in the middle during Tom Farniok's stretch of injuries the past two seasons.

'He understands he's a guy that has to be vocal in the scheme of things,' Rhoads said of Lalk. 'He's matching that with the most physical play he's ever shown on the field and in three days of pads, that's fun to see and encouraging for a guy that needs to be our center for 13 games.'

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