re: Just How Good was Charles Alexander?

These questions always generate a lot of people arguing about entirely different things. Do we rank him compared to his competition? Or is it based on the absolute value of his talent and effort? If it’s the former, I’d probably rank him third after Fournette and Canon. If it’s the latter he might be behind those two, and in the mix with Guice, Addai, Hilliard, Jeremy Hill, Faulk and a handful of others. In fact, I think I would take Faulk over him, too.

Alexander was fast and powerful. I really don’t remember him having exceptional moves. I think we’ve had a few backs with that skill set over the years. But he was a man among boys in most of his games at LSU.

Before my time, but his 1977 stat line was always pretty wild to me. Has to be easily one of the 2 or so best seasons in LSU history.

I was at LSU from 75 to 79. I got to watch him, Ensiminger, Woodley, Carson even Hokie Gajan and a slew of Tigers from those years.
All I can say is I was at that Ole Miss game when he broke off that long run for a TD.
It looked like a man among boys

He was the Belle cow for three straight years and every opposing team and player knew it. He still got all those yards.