It's sickening that Hurd got more PT than AK6 to begin the year.
Kamara hurt his knees pretty good against Bama after setting records against the Aggies and was dinged up the year prior. Yes he should have started in front of Hurd but its a pretty tough position to sit a rb that was headed for the school record, until he flaked out. I'm sure coach wishes now he would have handled it differently.
Kamara hurt his knees pretty good against Bama after setting records against the Aggies and was dinged up the year prior. Yes he should have started in front of Hurd but its a pretty tough position to sit a rb that was headed for the school record, until he flaked out. I'm sure coach wishes now he would have handled it differently.
Yes it is. Can only wonder about the game-changing type splash plays that AK never made because we were feeding Hurd over and over again for his 1-3 yard carries. Another quick thought.....when Alvin got his first carry tonight, in his second professional game, he did something Hurd never did in nearly 600 career carries at Tennessee....break off a 50 yard td run.
Agree with most of what you wrote. That said, Hurd was plodding toward the record 2-3 yards at a time after a ton of carries.
My thought is that Hurd should've split carries/touches with AK rather than getting the overwhelming lions share of them. Fact is, had Hurd set the school rushing record, he would've only done so while getting nearly 100 more carries than record-holder Travis Henry, who was clearly a light years better running back at Tennessee than Hurd.
I don't like that he quit again but his soph year he ran for over 1200 yards at over 4.5 per carry and it hard to tell that to sit on the bench. Even carries would have been ideal.
Oh boy. The Monday morning coaches are back. If Hurd hits the league and has 2 big opening in pre season, they'll be saying "look how Butches system and player development sucked so bad that he left".
Once the (-) attitude toward a coach forms, then every result points to his coaching failure by some.