Dr. Saturday Knows a Lot, But He Doesn't Knowshon
Dr. Saturday's list of candidates for the title "Best Running Back of the Decade" includes Penn State's Larry Johnson, Kansas State's Darren Sproles, Northern Illinois's Garrett Wolfe, and Rutgers's Ray Rice, not one of whom could carry Knowshon Rockwell Moreno's jockstrap. (There's more than a couple of other guys on that list I wouldn't pick over Knowshon, either, but I'm trying to point out the most egregious examples.)
Matt Hinton is a fine fellow and a perceptive analyst, but he just flat dropped the ball on this one.
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T Kyle King
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I like the list. I don't know why KM would deserve to be on it.
seems like pure homerism to me, but whatever :P
What you're seeing is team spirit. It's like the Holy Spirit, but more powerful.
-Hank Hill
Meh, List Looked Good to Me Too
Love Knowshon, and he’s going to be a great pro (thank you Fantasy Football Gods for allowing me to pick him up in the 15th round of my draft), but I actually kinda’ liked the list.
And out of the list, very hard to argue against Reggie Bush as the best college running back of the past decade.
Seriously?
Reggie Bush I’ll give you, and a couple of the other guys on that list—-I didn’t say he was the best running back of the decade, so the “pure homerism” crack was sheer nonsense—-but, if you tell me you’d rather have Larry Johnson or Garrett Wolfe than Knowshon Rockwell Moreno, you need to hand over your car keys and have someone call you a cab.
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I think one of the things that hurts KRM in the national eye...
… is that he was only playing 2 years, and none of the teams he was on ever went to the SEC Championship game. It’s true that he dominated in 2007 on a team that finished #2 in the nation, but he was also one of the headliners of the 2008 team that started #1 in the nation and finished as probably the most disappointing 10-win team in college football history (and certainly the most disappointing 10-win Georgia team ever).
It is said that the final impression is the one that everyone remembers… and that seems to be the case here, I think. For what it’s worth, though, I agree that KRM should be in the top 3 or 4, at least.
by vineyarddawg on Dec 16, 2009 7:40 PM EST up reply actions
What’s wrong with Wolfe? Just hatin’ on him ’cause he played at N. Illinois? Dude was a beast. You could make a better case for Ingram than Moreno. Moreno barely even cracked 1400 yards in his best year, and never reached the top 10 in rushing.
NO way Moreno deserved to be on that list.
What you're seeing is team spirit. It's like the Holy Spirit, but more powerful.
-Hank Hill
Your opinion has been duly noted
Just hatin’ on Knowshon ‘cause he played at Georgia? Jeez, what’s your beef with Knowshon, already? Did he keep you awake during quiet hours or something?
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by T Kyle King on Dec 19, 2009 10:01 PM EST up reply actions
Sproles couldn't carry Moreno's jockstrap?
I’ll grant that Moreno should have been on the list, but that’s a little over the top. Sproles led the country in rushing in 2003 and was just shy of 2,000 yards. If NFL success means anything to you, he’s doing rather well for himself in San Diego now, thank you very much.
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I agree that Sproles was a badass
However, NFL success of any sort should be eliminated from this discussion as we are talking the top COLLEGE RBs of the last decade and not the top NFL RBs that used to be pretty good in COLLEGE.
I don’t think Knowshon should be on the list simply because he only had 2 years to show his craft. There’s no doubt that he was a big part of the amazing run to end the 2007 season, but there’s no way he can be on the same level as Ray Rice or Garrett Wolfe for that reason.
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Agreed . . .
. . . but I’d go even farther.
The NFL is a waste of six or eight otherwise perfectly good years of collegiate eligibility. Hey, I took forever to finish school; why can’t they?
I agree with the writer who said the NFL draft was like carousel in “Logan’s Run”: people with whom he was familiar rose up into the sky, something happened to them, and he never saw or heard from them again.
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