Which type I-back do you prefer?
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billdozer15
All-Conference
One could argue part of that temper is what made him so great.....on the field.
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Hans Gruber
Special Teams Player
I don't care, fast or physical, as long as they're good.
I take pleasure in a big back punishing a defense as much as I do someone making a tackler miss.
I take pleasure in a big back punishing a defense as much as I do someone making a tackler miss.
JJ Husker
Assistant Coach
And anyone making that argument would be wrong. Did he run/play in a violent manner, sometimes-sure, but if you’ve read much about him from his coaches and teammates you’d know his success on the field really had nothing to do with his temper and demons off of it. Every account I’ve ever seen (and they’re many) claims he was a great teammate and actually a stable, calming force in practice, on the sidelines and in games. You don’t receive those glowing reviews based on being controlled by a temper.
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84HuskerLaw
All-Conference
I didn't find the actual statistic (most rushing TDs per attempt) by historical records for NU so I just looked over the career thousand yard rushers and would suggest the llist is weighted pretty heavily toward the powerful vs the speedy quick little ones. Note: we have had many RBs that possess both speed and power so they certainly qualify under the power category as it is ideal to have both. But arguably Nebraska coaches have elected to put the fastest POWERFUL runners out there over the speedy not so powerful ones. We've had dam few RBs who were not atleast 4.6 or faster so we really have few slow bruisers to consider in my view.
POWER & SPEED and or QUICKNESS: Rozier, Green, R Craig, Dubose, Phillips, Bukhalter, Kinney, Orduna, T Davis, Dedrick, C Jones, Burkhead, plus almost all the fullbacks and many more backups etc at I back and full back (dozens more certainly). Ozigbo ought to be mentioned even though his career total yards is not all that exceptional. His YPC were notable on a losing team surely.
SPEED / QUICKNESS w/little power: Helu, C Ross, D. Brown, T Rodgers, j Redwine, Rick Berns, IM Hipp, Reynolds, K Jones F Solich (arguably). Actually, one could make a case that Abdullah, K. Jones, IM Hipp maybe even Helu could be moved up the list, although one would not think of them as pile pushers.
Don't know if it is fair to say someone like E. Crouch was not a powerful runner as he was 6 and 200 lbs and did run hard at times.
NU has had very few smaller "scat' backs over the years so I am sure the most touchdowns were produced by powerful RBs historically Wandale Robinson and Mo Washington would seem to be more likely to end up in the latter group but their careers are just beginning and we don't know what size and so on they will end up being.
ColoradoHusk
Heisman Trophy Winner
One of my favorite athletes of all time. I was all-in on the Bo Knows movement as a kid.
While Craig had decent speed, I guess I can’t classify him as a burner. Those who remember the 1981 game where Nebraska beat Missouri 6 to 0, Craig broke into the clear of what appeared to be a sure TD. But there was a DB who was at least 10 yards behind him and who caught up to him and brought him down without any angle. With that said, Craig was a great back.
Do you have a link to those stats? I'd be really curious.
I know we were very bad at those early in the year. Perhaps we got better as the year went on but I would not have guessed that much.
Awesome. Thanks.
I was curious what they were calling "short" I was guessing 4 yards but 3 is a good number. I paged through the Colorado and Troy games and there were several misses there but not as many as I thought. We did have a bad time on 4th down and that was maybe where more on the early struggles were instead of 3rd down.