re: Best LSU RB ever??

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One night in '77 we watched Alexander the Great carry nine consecutive plays in an 80 yard td drive against Oregon

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One night in '96 we watched K. Faulk carry one time for an 80 yard td against Houston.


Anybody familiar with any of this?

1998 Third-Team All-American (The Football News)
1998 First-Team All-SEC (Coaches, AP, The Football News)
1998 Playboy Magazine Preseason All-America Team
1997 Third-Team All-American (AP)
1997 First-Team All-SEC (Coaches, AP, The Football News)
National Player of the Week by CNNSI (1997 vs. Kentucky)
1997 Playboy Magazine Preseason All-America Team
1996 First-Team All-American (AP)
1996 First-Team All-SEC (Coaches, AP, The Football News)
1995 SEC Freshman Offensive Player of the Year
1995 Knoxville News-Sentinel Freshman All-SEC Team
1995 Independence Bowl Offensive MVP

Or what about this?

LSU CAREER
An All-American and a three-time All-SEC selection, Kevin Faulk finished his career as LSU’s all-time leading rusher while breaking a plethora of other LSU and SEC marks ... Held 17 LSU and SEC records ... Rushed for 4,557 yards and 46 touchdowns in his career ... Finished fourth in NCAA history and first in SEC history with 6,833 all-purpose yards ... SEC record was previously held by Georgia legend Hershel Walker ... Had 53 total touchdowns ... Spurned an opportunity to enter the NFL Draft after his junior season to stay on for his senior year ... Earned his degree in kinesiology in just three and a half years ... Rushed for more than 100 yards in 22 games during his career and the Tigers were 18-4 in those games ... Rushed for more than 200 yards four times, including a school record 246 vs. Houston in 1996 ... Was the leading rusher in the SEC in each of his junior and senior seasons and became only the sixth player in SEC history to lead the league in rushing twice during a career ... Was a First-Team All-American as an all-purpose player his sophomore season of 1996 ... The SEC Freshman Offensive Player of the Year in 1995 and the Independence Bowl Offensive MVP that year ... Played in 1999 Senior Bowl.


Maybe some of this?


Records Set by Kevin Faulk

Career
Most All-Purpose Yards in a Career (LSU and SEC) – 6,833
Most Yards Rushing in a Career (LSU) – 4,557
Most Rushing Touchdowns in a Career (LSU) – 46
Most Total Touchdowns in a Career (LSU and SEC) – 53
Most Points Scored in a Career (LSU) – 318
Most Points Scored by a non-kicker in a Career (SEC) – 318

Season
Most All-Purpose Yards in a Season (LSU and SEC) – 2,109 (1998)
Most All-Purpose Yards/Game in a Season (LSU and SEC) – 191.7 (1998)

Game
Most Yards Rushing in a Game (LSU) – 246 vs. Houston (1996)
Most Yards Rushing in a Bowl Game (LSU and Indy Bowl) – 234 vs. Michigan St. (1995)
Most All-Purpose Yards in a Game (LSU) – 376 vs. Houston (1996)
Most Rushing Touchdowns in a Game (LSU) – 5 at Kentucky (1997)

Talent wise, Cecil Collins was a beast.

I would say Kevin Faulk.. I also enjoyed Double-D.

Then Keiland if he got carries...

FYI - I am a Kei-Train fan

t1. Cannon/Faulk
Faulk has the numbers and records, Cannon has the hardware (team and individual); but they played in eras too far separated for viable comparison. Besides, they are both awesome super-stud heroes, so who gives a shite which one was better?

3. Hilliard
Just barely by a nose hair, imo. He was so electrifying and started off with a bang his freshman year. Teaming up with Gary James was a mixed blessing numbers-wise, but made for one hell of a backfield ("Dalton & James Gang!" ).

4. Alexander
The best stud workhorse we've ever had. Not in the sense of a Hester short yardage hoss, but in a 30+ carries a game and still trucking stud workhorse. Slightly down on the yards per carry relative to some, but in the end he got the job done.

5. Stovall
Based purely on hearsay, but I've heard enough from enough people whose memories and opinions I respect to convince me. Heisman runner up who should have won it according to some (and not just Tiger fans). I never saw him play or saw any tape of him, so I have no idea how he ran. But there's some awfully big numbers next to his name in the record books, so he must have done something right. And it was probably something pretty to behold, too.

That's my top 5 for this moment. However, as a previous poster pointed out, there's at least half a dozen more names I could add to the list with viable arguments, and probably another half dozen I either forgot or never saw. And in another twenty years will likely be another half dozen or so. So by tomorrow (or even by the time I finish typing this), my list may very well change.

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i cant help but wonder how amazing K. Williams would have been with more carries.

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it was a joke.

everybody simmer down

When Dalton Hilliard came to LSU as a freshman, Garry James was the hotshot recruit that everyone wanted to see. I remember hearing in fall practice that LSU were saying that they had found their tailback of the future in Dalton Hilliard and a lot of criticism followed. Dalton Hilliard shut up the critics in his first game. Garry James had more straight line speed, but Dalton Hilliard had the smoothest moves - he would just glide through holes while breaking peoples ankles...

For what it's worth, I think Hilliard would be the #1 all-time rusher if Garry James hadn't taken away so many carries.

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For what it's worth, I think Hilliard would be the #1 all-time rusher if Garry James hadn't taken away so many carries.

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That's certainly possible, but let's not forget that Faulk had plenty of carries taken by some pretty solid RBs himself: Mealey, Cleveland, and of course, King Retard himself, The Diesel.

cecil collins was the best Ive seen.
What a waste of talent.