re: Mississippi St...

State has 2 quality RB’s right now (Jr. Aeris Williams 1,000 yard rusher & So. Kylin Hill who is very good)

An Emery/Williams/Hill combo would be salty honestly.

I don’t know, but all of ours except for Guice’s Jr season played under Miles’ Guard heavy O-Line in which we were a 65/35 run offense. That’s why we kept getting the top RB recruits. Combine a HC whose future is uncertain, doesn’t understand offense on the highest level, an OC whose unproven and wants a pass heavy offense we honestly don’t have nearly as much to offer a RB as we did 2 years ago.

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Moo State Goin to the ship!

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Lmao! I didn’t say all that! Just pointed out that the future, however mediocre it may end up being, is far more stable at Moo St than at LSU!

Oh you kids. Y’all don’t remember losing recruits like Quinton Culberson, Rory Johnson and Anthony Dixon to Moo State.

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that's mostly pointless. With all that in mind, the question would be did all those carries make them higher picks? Probably not. Gurley could have carried half the #, still been the same pick, and had a longer, healthier career.

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No you obviously didn't understand what I was saying. Having wear and tear on your body isn't that huge of a problem. Guys in the past like Steven Jackson, Tony Dorsett, Ladainian Tomlinson, Marcus Allen, Eric Dickerson, Adrian Peterson, etc, ran the ball a shite ton in college, got drafted in the first round, and had long successful pro careers. The backs I mentioned in the post you replied to also got the ball a hell of a lot and became first round picks.

Honestly I think the wear and tear thing is really up to the player's body makeup.

I do believe that using guys like Emery in a lot of different ways will maximize their potential. Mccaffrey doesn't go first round based in his rushing alone. It's his return ability and receiving ability, athleticism and intelligence, that gave him that nod. Pure raw talent and a varied football skillset.

That won’t happen this year. They return almost everyone including a good qb. Stacked on the Dline as well. I believe Moorehead may be even better than Mullen. Dude has won a lot as a HC at a small program and as OC at PSU. Hate to say it but State is looking good so far. Just look at how they are recruiting.

You’ve gotten downvotes because you said that college carries don’t affect nfl longevity. That somehow if a guy has a shite ton of carries in college he could still have a long and productive career in the nfl and that there is no data to support anything but that. And you are right. That is the biggest overblown myth in the history of football I think.

The stats pretty much show that on average, guys who get more carries in college are better running backs. And wouldn’t you know it? They get more carries in the nfl too and hang around a while because they are good football players.

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You’ve gotten downvotes because you said that college carries don’t affect nfl longevity. That somehow if a guy has a shite ton of carries in college he could still have a long and productive career in the nfl and that there is no data to support anything but that. And you are right. That is the biggest overblown myth in the history of football I think

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No I've gotten downvoted for a couple reasons

1. For a few years now a lot of LSU fans on this site have gotten it in their head that guys would want to come here because they would be better splitting carries to get less wear and tear and have a longer NFL career (nothing to support that claim). That's the main reason why we don't get top tier guys out of state geniuses. We aren't Bama and top out of state RBs aren't just wanting to wait their turn here.

2. Because I'm not a homer and can see legit football reasoning behind Emery wanting to go to Mississippi St. The HC has a history of utilizing RBs in a number of ways and his lead RB gets a lot of play over the others. Plus he's actually seen that offense before and knows it will be successful.

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The stats pretty much show that on average, guys who get more carries in college are better running backs. And wouldn’t you know it? They get more carries in the nfl too and hang around a while because they are good football players.

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Yeah it's crazy people think the number of carries or touches is some giant weakness.

I'll give them even more names;

Emmitt Smith had almost 23 carries per game at Florida in a pass heavy offense (56 receptions over career). Goes to the NFL, averages 19.5 carries per game for 15 years, adding receptions brings his total touches to almost 23 a game in the NFL for 15 years.

Marshall Faulk had 22 carries per game in college with another 82 receptions. If you remove his final NFL year wear he only carried the ball 65 times in 16 games, in his first 11 NFL years he carried the ball 17 times per game and with his crazy receiving ability, he averaged 21 touches per game for 11 years.

Thurman Thomas carried the ball 21 times per game over FOUR years in college, also haveing 82 receptions. Over his first 10 years in the NFL, he averaged 17.6 carries per game and with his receptions added, just over 20 touches per game.

Anyway, I want Emery bad and like I've said so many times, he'd form a dangerous 1-2 punch with Davis, but I'm not going to sit here like some of these guys and believe that is a better situation for him.

It should be a very competitive game now that we should have depth to rotate people in on defense unlike a year ago. Plus, they played off the emotion of the crowd most of the night. Despite them having everyone back, I like our chances in Death Valley.