Maybe it's not all that simple, but it sounds like Michael Robinson's mom had the right idea at least.

You gotta get Eramus James off his feet.

Penn State wasn't able to do that at all in a 16-3 to Wisconsin three weeks ago, and Penn State utility player Robinson paid the price when he suffered a concussion on a brutal helmet-to-helmet hit by James, Wisconsin's devastating defensive end.

Robinson, sounding anxious to get back on the field, said yesterday that he has been cleared to pay in this weekend's game against Iowa, but the hit by James, a frightening blow that temporarily paralyzed Robinson, hasn't always been easy to forget for the junior backup quarterback.

College football analyst Lee Corso refers to the hit seemingly every week.

During Robinson's visit home to Richmond, Va., last weekend while he was watching Saturday's Big Ten match up between 10th-ranked Wisconsin and No. 5 Purdue with his family, Robinson again revisited his connect with James who suffered an ankle injury when he was chop blocked by a Purdue tight end during the third quarter of the Badgers 20-17 victory over Purdue.

And the injury to he Wisconsin D-end, apparently, drew quite a reaction in the Robinson living room

Not from Robinson, though. Mostly from his mother.

"My ma was like, 'yeah, that's what you-all should have been doing,' " Robinson said with a laugh. "I was like, 'ma, don't be wishing bad on anybody.' "

Ah, but Robinson's mom is actually a little more football savvy than one might expect. She wasn't saying that the Lions should have intentionally injured James. No, they just should have been a little more creative in how they blocked him, as Robinson later clarified.

"She wasn't saying hurt him," Robinson said. "She was saying you guys should have been trying to get him down, get him off his feet."

Ma's advice may have helped at the times, but as for now, Robinson will concentrate on getting back into the starting lineup, wherever that might be for this versatile athlete. He said he expects to start seeing contact in practice this week.

Of course, nothing can ever be counted when it comes to a head injury this severe. Robinson actually expected to play against Purdue until team physician Wayne Sebastianelli took him to a neurologist on Friday morning before the game.

According to Robinson, the neurologist said he should sit out one more game to decrease the risk of second concussion syndrome, a condition which causes victims of serious concussions to be more susceptible to a subsequent head injuries that are more serious and have longer-term effects.

"He said, 'you would be coming back a whole lot faster than I would recommend with your kind of concussion,' " Robinson said. "[The doctors] said the risk of having a second concussion isn't that great if I played this week [against Iowa],"

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno said he anticipates that his most dynamic offensive player will return, but Robinson still expects the coaches to formulate a contingency plan in case he can't.

"They had two gameplans down for Purdue -- with or without me," he said. "I expect to be in the gameplan this week, but they will probably have two game plans ready just in case."

There'll be no James with which to contend this weekend, but there will be All-Big Ten Iowa defensive end Matt Roth. Protecting the quarterback ought to be in the gameplan, too.

And certainly Ma Robinson's would agree with that. Seeing her boy for the first time since the injury was relief enough. No need for anymore scares.

One jarring helmet-to-helmet hit in a year is enough for any team.

"When I got home, see looked at me and prayed to God I'm OK," Robinson said. " She hugged me like 16 times."