Even though I've had my criticisms of Tauren

[thebjd]

Really? Only 4 other SEC RB's achieved it. Sounds like "much" to me. Really? His 100 games came in games 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, and 10 with 99 yards in game 11. The truth seems to be closer to he would have been even more consistent had he gotten more carries and more holes to run through.

It helped the team but not necessarily Poole that UT became so pass oriented with Bray. Not accurate. You need to drop the "either". Poole completely outclassed both of those guys in spite of the OL weaknesses and inexperience. Yeah. I guess better teams do not need RB's who can get yardage behind an under performing OL. Seemed to be? I would rather look at real things like stats than what "seems to be".

Not necessary. Both of the Sullins bros beat out the "anchor" of UT's OL this year. They beat out Pope who would have started every game if not for injury. In fact, they beat out ALL of this year's OL's except for the true Freshmen.

The other 3 guys... two are in the NFL and one was a Fr AA. UT's 6th man last year would have been the star of this OL.

Even if you considered the OL's equal, which they weren't, Poole still performed better against the better competition.

Really? Only 4 other SEC RB's achieved it. Sounds like "much" to me. Really? His 100 games came in games 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, and 10 with 99 yards in game 11. The truth seems to be closer to he would have been even more consistent had he gotten more carries and more holes to run through..

13 games and 1000 yards is not much when there is only one running option on the team. You love him, we get it. 79 yds/game.

D Moore and D Rogers averaged 9 YPC and that jet sweep was used over and over.

The "anchor" is a year older this year. The line last year was undersized. This year the line was much bigger. One would expect them to be better a year later. Right?

Neal and Oku averaged over four YPC so I don't know about totally outclassing them.

The O-Line was protected last year with a bootleg and play action game. Until Crompton started completing passes no one even defended the passing game. You are into the whole wasn't given a chance story when we have Kiffin. Gran and Chaney saying the depth chart was right last year and Poole isn't all world.

 

[Crown-Vol]

IN at nutshell!!!

POOLE needs to quit dancing and hit the gaps, so many times he had running lanes and flat footed in the backfield hoping for a 80 yd gain. Instead of getting 4or5 yds, he was tackled for little to no gain!(ran like foster did when he was here) Just my opnion...

 

[Orngeblood]

im no talent evaluater(sp), but it seems to me that Poole makes some bad cuts when in traffic and misses alot of open lanes. would that be what one refers to as bad vision?
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Absolutely nothing wrong with pooles vision. He hits the holes well when they are there. Our line and our tight ends got manhandled alot this year. Especially our tight ends. Poole was not our problem, our blocking was and our lack of a deep passing threat prior to bray's emergence. An allpro couldn't have gain much more than Poole with the defense stacking 8 in the box and our young line and light tightends not moving any one. This team has lots of issues, but poole at rb isn't one of them.
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[BigOrange15]

IN at nutshell!!!

POOLE needs to quit dancing and hit the gaps, so many times he had running lanes and flat footed in the backfield hoping for a 80 yd gain. Instead of getting 4or5 yds, he was tackled for little to no gain!(ran like foster did when he was here) Just my opnion...

Yeah that dude sucked. He only rushed for the 2nd most yards in Tennessee history.

 

[Crown-Vol]

Yeah that dude sucked. He only rushed for the 2nd most yards in Tennessee history.

Read the post MORON!!!

I did not say he sucked but he runs a hell of alot different now than he did when he was here!!!

COACHING makes the difference you understand now?

But he got alot of those yds as a freshman then bad habits formed and his stats went south.......

 

[VOLNBAMA]

You are right. Any ol' run of the mill, slow, unskilled, untalented RB can run for over 1000 yds against UT's schedule behind an OL of green underclassmen and a "never was" Sr. Six 100 yd games with 3 vs top 25 teams? Why any avg SEC RB should be able to do that, right? Happens all the time...



I love MH but if you look at his Sr year statistically and compare it to Poole's Jr year then account for the difference in the OL's... Poole posted more impressive numbers. Hardesty never posted a 100 yd game vs a top 25 opponent. Poole avg'd more ypc. With 28% fewer carries, Poole had 11 TD's vs MH's 13.

If you ask me from a subjective eye ball pov which is the better RB, I'd say MH. But you cannot discount the actual production.

Hardesty was far more impressive
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[VOLNBAMA]

Read the post MORON!!!

I did not say he sucked but he runs a hell of alot different now than he did when he was here!!!

COACHING makes the difference you understand now?

But he got alot of those yds as a freshman then bad habits formed and his stats went south.......

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[BigOrange15]

Read the post MORON!!!

I did not say he sucked but he runs a hell of alot different now than he did when he was here!!!

COACHING makes the difference you understand now?

But he got alot of those yds as a freshman then bad habits formed and his stats went south.......

Wow lol...ok slick.

 

[statchamp99]

I think Toney Williams still has a chance to be a back up.
ACL injury as a running back is tough to come back from. It'll be good to see if he has all that behind him.

 

[lamar_cmpbll]

I think they need to let him carry the ball more than 4 or 5 times in the first half

 

[RespectTradition]

Mr Poole put up really good numbers when we were dedicated to, or had to rely on, on the run. The offense changed, his numbers went down. Running out of the shotgun is a lot harder.

How many RBs have hung 100 on Bama lately?