Why do small, fast backs NEVER work...

#51
#51
Blount worked perfectly fine in the Ducks offense the year before... QB's with no wheels are about the only players who are of no use in a spread.
 
#52
#52
milohimself said:
Blount worked perfectly fine in the Ducks offense the year before... QB's with no wheels are about the only players who are of no use in a spread.
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u beat me too it.. I nearly lost my coffee when i read that about power backs.. I think if Oregon would have had Blount in this game, it would have countered or atleast kept up with Aub's Newton, Dyer, and McCalebb. Just because a Rb isnt fleet of foot like LeMicheal James, doesnt mean they cant "Blount" some Defenses out of the spread attk.
 
#53
#53
WestTNVols said:
James "Little Man" Stewart played at 215lbs.
Charlie Garner was to the small side, but not as small as Oregon's James or Florida's Demps.
Tony Thompson is the only really small back we've had of any quality, but he was not in the same league as some of the small backs we've seen of late, such as Oregon's James.
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Not sure on height/weight,but travis stephens was about the same size as thompson and he was as quality as you could ask for!!! J.M.O
 
#56
#56
Not sure of Aaron Hayden's playing weight, but I know he weighed over 200lbs. Not a big back, but not a small back either.
 
#58
#58
rstarkeytn said:
Just have to find the right back. Lamarcus Coker woulda had a great career if it hadn't went up in smoke
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I've always felt that if he wouldn't have been an idiot he honestly could have been a Reggie bush caliber player, he was sooooo talented. Didn't he rip off like two or three of the top five longest runs in ut history in one season?
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#59
#59
Ertel said:
I've always felt that if he wouldn't have been an idiot he honestly could have been a Reggie bush caliber player, he was sooooo talented. Didn't he rip off like two or three of the top five longest runs in ut history in one season?
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Against Memphis, Marshall and Vandy.

Coker was talented but he gets a little to much hype.
 
#62
#62
armchair said:
for us? So many teams in the country have backs who are smallish but quick/fast--and they make plays. Look at McClusker at Ole Miss--he killed us. Oregon has a small, quick starting RB, so does Auburn. Lots of teams make hay with quick backs. We recruit the same type--and they either never play or they are never effective or, typically, they end up as a second team cornerback. One reason is that we don't run spread. We prefer to be big and predictable, unfortunately.
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Travis Stephens and Tony Thompson did quite well for us.
 
#69
#69
Ertel said:
I've always felt that if he wouldn't have been an idiot he honestly could have been a Reggie bush caliber player, he was sooooo talented. Didn't he rip off like two or three of the top five longest runs in ut history in one season?
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Idiot or genius, he still wasn't in the same league as Bush.
 
#70
#70
thagodfather said:
Idiot or genius, he still wasn't in the same league as Bush.
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Now if Bush could learn to run through a crease instead of dancing at the line of scrimmage (and the secondary could cover, and receivers could catch anything but a cold), my Saints wouldn't have lost to the Shehawks... in the first round of wild-card playoffs.

Grumble, grumble...
 
#75
#75
We recruited Damien Thigpen in 09, before Kiffin let him go. Devrin Young comes to mind. Maybe he'll work out. Other than that, I'm not sure if we bring in a lot of those guys.
 
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