Ron Brown: I want to find a role for Collins Okafor

huskered17 said:
I wish he could find a role for M Mendoza. All that speed and quickness, has to be some where it can be helpful. What a shame he wasn't able to put it use for this team. All moves of J R, with much more speed. :hmmph

GBR!!!
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I'm not at all sure he's even remotely close to that level (by far the highest I've ever seen for a NU player) but if he's even in the same galaxy he needs to see the field.

 
bshirt said:
huskered17 said:
I wish he could find a role for M Mendoza. All that speed and quickness, has to be some where it can be helpful. What a shame he wasn't able to put it use for this team. All moves of J R, with much more speed. :hmmph

GBR!!!
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I'm not at all sure he's even remotely close to that level (by far the highest I've ever seen for a NU player) but if he's even in the same galaxy he needs to see the field.
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The few times I have got to see him in a game, he was faster than anyone on either team, with quickest first step and moves I have seen since J R. This kid was able to fly once he got a little running room. I thought for sure he was going to have a great future ,as a Husker. His films from high school showed the same things. Seems he has trouble hanging onto the ball and with being able to block, from what I was told on here, to bad. Give him credit thou, he still works hard and stuck it out with the program, where some others would have transferred.

GBR!!!

 
there is a reason Mendoza and Okafor ride the pine......they are not complete players or close enough that they see the field.

 
Hercules said:
corncraze said:
Personally i think this is the staff's attempt to get a 3rd down back. Since D-Tray left, we are lacking a big back, so I think this is them attempting to work with what they got. Honestly I would be very surprised if I saw Okafor turn anything here, but with Brown coaching I guess can never tell. That dude's got some coaching skills.
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The whole "big back" concept is kind of trite I think, especially within our system (or what I think our system will be). Rex Burkhead is a perfectly capable 3rd down back. Even when we had D-Tray last year, we never used him (and I don't think that's where the offense went wrong). Furthermore, it appeared that he transferred because he was a "big back," and we were clearly not going to have any real use for him in our offense.

I think the coaching staff wants guys who are every-down backs, like Roy Helu and Rex Burkhead were. I think they're working Okafor not because we need a "big back" or a "3rd down back," but because without the three freshmen coming in, we are very shallow at RB, and we desperately need someone with some athleticism like Okafor to step up.
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I would have tended to agree with you, but when Brown made mention about trying to teach Collins not to slide, but to run downhill and hit holes, it sounds like they may need that bruiser back. Yes, Rex can carry that load, but I think that I heard that Beck wants to use more I formations than we have in the past. We may be setting up for that.

I guess we'll find out more come September.

 
Hunter94 said:
there is a reason Mendoza and Okafor ride the pine......they are not complete players or close enough that they see the field.
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Plus the first one isn't smart enough to understand what's being asked of him and the latter doesn't care enough to give it an honest effort.

 
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