re: LSU RB/DB Derrick Davis commits to Pitt

I guess our HC coach doesn’t know what he’s looking at either? He said the exact same thing in his press conference after the games as well as the media, who also watch these guys up close and personal. They all saw what many of us saw and it has absolutely nothing to do with running over any scrubs.

You simply don’t know what you’re looking at if you didn’t see promise at RB for this dude. I’ve seen countless teams switch a WR or DB to the RB position and take over. LSU was whipped up on by some of them, this season and last. The threads were legit, because he had legit promise at RB. I wish he would have taken the switch and trained there all offseason.

The guy showed the best vision and the most explosiveness of any RB this year and we simply do NOT have that right now. Maybe one of the freshman show it but I haven’t seen that yet. Had he trained at that position and wanted to switch, he would have been our best option there next season. Our own coach said he wished he had seen this earlier because he would have switched him. The only guy on our team even close to the natural RB ability that DD had was Josh Williams when he hit the LOS but the difference in the two was Josh would lose that explosiveness once he got to the second level and Davis did not.

It doesn’t matter who we were playing or when. A hole is a hole and explosiveness is explosiveness. Ok maybe he doesn’t have that hole against better teams, he had the ability to hit the LOS and get 2-3 yards even if there was no hole. I don’t care that he ran someone over, let’s say that was an SEC safety, he would have still hit the safety with the same explosiveness and at the very least, moved the guy back a yard or two. But we don’t know how he would handle the SEC or handle the ball. That’s about it. As for as running north and south, he was our best RB period.