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re: Alley Broussard comment today
Posted on 5/1/17 at 11:10 am to zed44
Posted on 5/1/17 at 11:10 am to zed44
All i know is he was a straight up beast against ole miss. I took my FIL to that game where he set the record. My FIL hates ole miss with a passion but isn't an LSU fan (from Ohio but went to USM). I've never seen him more happy
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Posted on 5/1/17 at 11:23 am to TheChosenOne
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Exactly. Just watch his TD run in the 2005 Capital One bowl. He went from a dead stop to burning everyone downfield. He wasn't a sub 4.5 guy, but before his injury, he had penty of speed and agility for his size.
It was still against Iowa though
with a nice block by DBowe LINK
Posted on 5/1/17 at 11:29 am to zed44
Sounds like Alley posts on the OT now...
Posted on 5/1/17 at 11:40 am to The Pirate King
Something that needs to be kept in mind about such injuries and young players .... they have coaches telling them from junior high on up that they are special, immortal, gods, etc. They stay pretty jacked up on that hype and some of them do quite good for themselves. Then a disabling injury comes along. Football is all they have known, and now for the first time they are forced to face that they are mortal and that they will have a long climb back into football (i.e., rehab - which is no picnic). Their ego takes a major hit. Some get up and recover, and some don't. For some, it is the first time they have experienced a major failure in their sport (even though through no making of their own). Some handle that better than others.
I remember watching Chris Williams when he was at Tioga High. He was one of two 1,000+ yard running backs on that team for that year. He had an ACL tear. After surgery, the coaches brought him back slowly. Instead of putting him back in the offensive backfield, then coach Jerry Ingram opted to work him into the secondary. While he would have been a damned good RB, he found his niche in the secondary and LSU signed him for the defensive side. He excelled at LSU and went on to the NFL.
However, for everyone of those success stories there are a couple of those who didn't make the comeback because the injury was too devastating, or their psyche was so devastated that they just said "frick it" in so many words.
I remember watching Chris Williams when he was at Tioga High. He was one of two 1,000+ yard running backs on that team for that year. He had an ACL tear. After surgery, the coaches brought him back slowly. Instead of putting him back in the offensive backfield, then coach Jerry Ingram opted to work him into the secondary. While he would have been a damned good RB, he found his niche in the secondary and LSU signed him for the defensive side. He excelled at LSU and went on to the NFL.
However, for everyone of those success stories there are a couple of those who didn't make the comeback because the injury was too devastating, or their psyche was so devastated that they just said "frick it" in so many words.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 12:13 pm to Jones
quote:you're going to have to be more specific
Was he the one that hungout at bogies too much and got fat and slow?
Posted on 5/1/17 at 12:15 pm to damnedoldtigah
Man some of you have short memories. Alley was in good shape before injury. He was no burner but he didn't get caught much in open field. The fall before his injury, there was a ton of hype surrounding him
Posted on 5/1/17 at 12:23 pm to zed44
Alley lost his focus during his recovery, it wasn't the injury itself. Video games and smoking weed, got fat and never came back.
** But yes, he was Heisman potential at one time. Big man could move and he had good vision.
** But yes, he was Heisman potential at one time. Big man could move and he had good vision.
This post was edited on 5/1/17 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 5/1/17 at 12:23 pm to KC Tiger
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guys who were great on their high school team and could have played college ball if they really wanted to.
blew out my knee scoring the winning td in the state championship game as the clock ran out, otherwise I would have been a certain first rounder
Posted on 5/1/17 at 12:43 pm to zed44
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could have been the best ever if not for knee injury. I know he was good, but do you guys think he could have been heisman material if not for torn acl
L.S.U. VS OLE MISS 2004
Posted on 5/1/17 at 2:17 pm to Jones
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Was he the one that hungout at bogies too much and got fat and slow?
That would be Justin Vincent..
Great guy but he was knee deep in sorority chicks back then
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:22 pm to zed44
quote:Yes. And double yes.
do you guys think he could have been heisman material if not for torn acl
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:42 pm to tigerpawl
About sums it up. Not sure what he is doing now but certainly wish him well:
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He once possessed such promise that many projected him as a first-round NFL draft pick. An injury curtailed that promise and now an action off the field has curtailed the future of former LSU running back Alley Broussard. Broussard was arrested this past Sunday night in Lafayette after being stopped by the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office for having an obscured license plate and dark window tinting. Upon being stopped, the officer searched Broussard’s vehicle, discovering a marijuana cigarette that had been used, Lortab pills and a .45 caliber handgun. The officer booked Broussard with possession of drugs and a gun charge. The former Acadiana High School star burst on the scene at LSU in 2003 in the national championship run. In 2004, he started eight games, tallying 867 yards on 142 carries with ten touchdowns. He suffered a severe knee injury prior to the 2005 season and was never the same from that point forward. He would give up football at LSU in 2007 after battling knee issues and weight problems and would eventually transfer to play at Division Two Missouri Southern State. Broussard was not drafted, and his football career appears to be at an end.
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This post was edited on 5/1/17 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 5/1/17 at 8:29 pm to TBoy@LSU
He was faster than Ron Dayne who won the Heisman a few years prior.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 8:40 pm to grape nutz
Broussard was a stud...way better than Vincent was from a talent perspective.
He just never got back from that injury. I think a large part of that was on him and the effort he gave rehabbing.
He just never got back from that injury. I think a large part of that was on him and the effort he gave rehabbing.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:04 pm to SlowFlowPro
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happened to alley, JV, scott, ware, etc
Alley, busted knees. Jv, busted knees, this was a trend with Sabans guys, keep going back. We were RB killers.
Ware, never the same player after being suspended, still violent runner and don't think he falls into same category. He didn't blow up like the other two.
Scott, was good, he pretty much was always the same player. He got hurt at the end, you don't remember being down to 4th string Ridley?
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:54 am to dgnx6
He was a beast! Too bad he got hurt! 
Posted on 5/2/17 at 9:55 am to zed44
I was never that good at football, but played at AHS while Alley was there. He was the best athlete in the area at the time....by FAR. I remember one day before practice he was complaining to the coach about having to run 20 plays that day, and I just thought to myself my god if I had half of his talent. I would have loved to be the starting running back for my high school team, but that was never going to happen. Here is a guy who seemed to me at the time a future star in the NFL complaining about having to play starting running back. Let's just say I was not surprised how everything ended up
Posted on 5/2/17 at 2:22 pm to lsunatchamp
I just remember watching him get held to 25yds on 10+ carries against Auburn in 2006. He was a shell of himself after the injury. I have no idea what was different about his injury vs other RBs that tear an ACL but it seemed to be harder for him to come back from.
That Auburn game was brutal.
That Auburn game was brutal.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 2:34 pm to zed44
He should say hello to Cecil.
Cecil would have been great. But
Cecil would have been great. But
Posted on 5/2/17 at 2:40 pm to 1999
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i'm thinking 2008 charles scott or 2010 ridley level.
he was better than Scott and Ridley IMO
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