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Re: 2013 -- rebuilding year? - Spiny_Norman - 01-25-2013

(01-25-2013, 04:26 PM)oman link Wrote:[quote author=Spiny_Norman link=topic=7443.msg57869#msg57869 date=1359155269]

... But trying to set my expectations appropriately for BJS.

3,500 Stanford career rushing yards?  6 point 3 ypc?
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Oman - I was thinking in particular of expectations for next year.  If BJS is a specialist rather than a featured back, he will carry no more than a few times a game.  Let's say 40-50 carries for the year.  @ 6 ypg that would be about 250-300 yards.

Re: 2013 -- rebuilding year? - washingtonismoney - 01-25-2013

I expect him to finish his career with 10,000 yards receiving and 10,000 yards passing. (Yes, he will get the yards coming and going by passing to himself.)

Re: 2013 -- rebuilding year? - Rando - 01-25-2013

Barry J and Kelsey Young are going to provide some serious speed on offense. Just imagine some of the option plays we can run with Hogan and whatnot. We have the personnel that would make Chip Kelly salivate.

Re: 2013 -- rebuilding year? - fullmetal - 01-26-2013

I really hope you're right Rando (welcome back, btw)...but if you are, then I'd better be prepared to take a financial hit when it comes time to plan that national championship game trip next year :)

Re: 2013 -- rebuilding year? - terry - 01-26-2013

(01-25-2013, 04:26 PM)oman link Wrote:3,500 Stanford career rushing yards?  6 point 3 ypc?

Only three Stanford players have reached 3,500 career rushing yards:

4,300  Stepfan Taylor
4,169  Darrin Nelson
3,522  Toby Gerhart

No Stanford player has averaged 6.3 yards per carry for his career. The top averages:

5.9  Phil Moffatt
5.7  Darrin Nelson
5.3  Vincent White

(min. 1000 yds)

Those are pretty high expectations to put on a kid who has never taken a snap.


Re: 2013 -- rebuilding year? - oman - 01-26-2013

Eh, those aren't even what his dad did, and his dad gave up his senior year.


Re: 2013 -- SI article on RBs by committee - Bruce Wang - 02-01-2013

I hadn't thought about it this way.  Seems that the prospects for a Running Back by committee won't be such a bad thing for Stanford next year.  Perhaps this is another reason Stepfan isn't higher up in draft chatter.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130131/running-back-recruiting-reality-alabama/index.html

Re: 2013 -- rebuilding year? - FarmBoy - 02-01-2013

Stepfan only had one year as the true feature back, though he clearly was the leader in 2010-11. 843 career carries at Stanford. By comparison, Montee Ball has 924 carries in his career (663 in the past two years.)

I'm all for running back by committee, as long as the difference between committee #1 and committee #2-4 is not that big.

Re: 2013 -- rebuilding year? - fullmetal - 02-01-2013

I definitely prefer that the RBs be kept as free of injury as possible.  See Marcus Lattimore.  Also, the fresh legs argument is pretty compelling as well.  If we trust NFL scouts to perform due diligence and properly evaluate draft prospects within a RBBC system, then all should be well.

Re: 2013 -- rebuilding year? - jayasena - 02-01-2013

(02-01-2013, 11:49 AM)FarmBoy link Wrote:I'm all for running back by committee, as long as the difference between committee #1 and committee #2-4 is not that big.

I think this is the key. RBBC is a much better solution to the problem of having too much talent than it is to the problem of having too little talent. For example, the committee approach worked well for recent Oregon teams, the Bush/White USC teams etc. because they had multiple guys who were good enough to be on the field. Not much a committee approach can do if none of your guys are good enough.

I'm optimistic that Stanford has enough RB talent to justify an RBBC approach next season.

Re: 2013 -- rebuilding year? - yvonne - 02-01-2013

RBBC worked well two years ago, but was dropped when Kulabafi distinguished himself as the top running back. In addition, Jeremy Stewart provided a totally different kind of running attack.

Running backs in RBBC may need to not only spell one another, but also be able to provide different kinds of offensive threats.