C.J. Gable started off the season working his way straight up. With nearly 70-yards per game against both Idaho and Nebraska, Gable was set to easily surpass his 2006 record of 434 yards. But then something strange happened. At the conference home opener against Washington State, Gable carried for a mere six yards.

Then, like a plane flying into the Bermuda-triangle, C.J. Gable disappeared completely off the radar.

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Wonder where Gable has been since then? He’s been on the side-lines, hampered down by a chronically strained hernia. If that doesn’t sound fun already, Scott Wolf of the Daily Breeze is reporting Gable plans to have abdominal surgery in hopes to fix the problem:

“I don’t like surgery, period,” Gable said Tuesday. “I don’t want to do it.”

But the choice was either play through the pain or take a medical-redshirt, and Gable elected surgery. This makes room for some of the other talented Trojan tailbacks to get some carries. With Stafon Johnson in a boot due to a bruised foot and the fact their next game is against a push-over Stanford team with a second string QB, expect the lesser used Dennis, Reed, Bradford and McKnight to get some quality carries.

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