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Topic: 100 RBs who had lots of carries and didn't stink

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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #266 on: April 02, 2020, 08:28:59 PM »
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #267 on: April 02, 2020, 11:30:21 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on April 02, 2020, 08:28:59 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLAQRYw0RVM
man that was great and brings back memories. Hadn’t watched video of Wheatley in awhile. He was special. I remember hearing Michael Strahan say in an interview that the most talented athlete he ever played with in his career with the NY Giants was Wheatley. Strahan said something to the effect of he had never seen anything like Wheatley when Wheatley got to the Giants, that Wheatley could out-lift all the DL and OL and out run all the DBs and WRs on the team. He was a freak show. 
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #268 on: April 03, 2020, 12:18:31 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on April 02, 2020, 11:59:48 AM
It would be good if the NCAA would go back and count bowl games for guys like Dayne.
wouldn't it be much easier to simply exclude all bowl games as before?

Gale Sayers and Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch may not have had the same opportunities for bowl games

Another kid that didn't play in a bowl game .................. Troy Davis twice earned All-American honors and was the first and one of two NCAA Division I-A running backs to rush for over 2,000 yards in back-to-back seasons. In 2016, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
There's 3 guys that should crack the top 100 w/o many bowl games
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #269 on: April 03, 2020, 12:32:45 PM »
Yeah, older B1G players and ND players would take a hit if we counted bowl games way back.
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #270 on: April 03, 2020, 12:35:43 PM »
who in the heck's idea was it to suddenly start counting bowl stats?

Bob Stoops??
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #271 on: April 03, 2020, 12:38:33 PM »
I suspect bowl games started to be viewed as "real games" as opposed to just a reward for having a good year.  Many have noted how back in the day before the AP counted bowl games, they were exhibitions in nature and perhaps teams didn't really focus on them as much.

Teams traveled somewhere quasi-exotic and had a good time and perhaps practiced a bit on the side and played a game that didn't really matter much.
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #272 on: April 03, 2020, 12:41:09 PM »
even if it's a real game - the extra game skews the single season or career stats
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #273 on: April 03, 2020, 02:49:54 PM »
We already have an imbalance in number of games per season.  It was 9, then 10, then 11 for a long time, now 12.  And CCGs, @Hawai'i, Pigskin Classics, and playoffs now. 
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And no, no one takes a hit, they simply don't get added to.  I hate that kind of thinking - oh, that RB will get 74 yards added onto his stats and mine stay the same.  Umm, well, he did run for 74 more yards.  It happened.  It doesn't have anything to do with you.
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #274 on: April 03, 2020, 02:51:09 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on April 03, 2020, 12:41:09 PM
even if it's a real game - the extra game skews the single season or career stats
This is why the all-time rushing leader should be the one with the highest career yards per game.  Or even better - yards per start.  
But we don't have that, because people hate math...even simple arithmatic.
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #275 on: April 03, 2020, 04:10:18 PM »
I'm late to the party on this, but a top 100 that only has 1 player from Penn State, and it's Evan Royster, is fundamentally flawed.

Penn State's top 10

Saquon Barkley
Ki-Jana Carter
John Cappelletti
Curt Warner
Larry Johnson
Curtis Enis
Lydell Mitchell
Lenny Moore
Franco Harris
Blair Thomas
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #276 on: April 03, 2020, 04:15:39 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on April 03, 2020, 02:51:09 PM
But we don't have that, because people hate math...even simple arithmatic.
People hate speling and grammer two.
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #277 on: April 03, 2020, 04:23:08 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on April 03, 2020, 02:49:54 PM
Umm, well, he did run for 74 more yards.  It happened.  It doesn't have anything to do with you.
umm, well those other backs ran for yards way back in those other bowl games.  It happened.


Prior to 2002, bowl game statistics were not included in players' career totals
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #278 on: April 03, 2020, 04:26:23 PM »
Quote from: Geolion91 on April 03, 2020, 04:10:18 PM
I'm late to the party on this, but a top 100 that only has 1 player from Penn State, and it's Evan Royster, is fundamentally flawed.

Penn State's top 10

Saquon Barkley
Ki-Jana Carter
John Cappelletti
Curt Warner
Larry Johnson
Curtis Enis
Lydell Mitchell
Lenny Moore
Franco Harris
Blair Thomas
I'd have Thomas higher on this list. Probably between Johnson and Enis??
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Re: Top 100 RBs of All-Time
« Reply #279 on: April 03, 2020, 08:19:37 PM »
I'd have Curt Warner higher
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