Is or was Coleman under utilized?..

NeGgaPlEaSe

Why not run and re run Coleman all night long for 20 carries. Rest Gaskin and let him get heathy for USC
Coleman might actually get to 1000 yards on the season. Gaskin will get there, but Coleman May actually make it.
600 yards at 9.1 yards per carry, 4 games left and now Gaskin is dinged up

DerekJohnson

Over the past 30 years, have we ever seen such a dramatic transformation of a running back at UW? Two years ago I viewed him as filler. More or less the way I view Dotson now. But now when I see Coleman take a handoff I'm excited to see what will happen.

dnc

NeGgaPlEaSe said:

Why not run and re run Coleman all night long for 20 carries. Rest Gaskin and let him get heathy for USC
Coleman might actually get to 1000 yards on the season. Gaskin will get there, but Coleman May actually make it.
600 yards at 9.1 yards per carry, 6 games left and now Gaskin is dinged up

dnc

DerekJohnson said:

Over the past 30 years, have we ever seen such a dramatic transformation of a running back at UW? Two years ago I viewed him as filler. More or less the way I view Dotson now. But now when I see Coleman take a handoff I'm excited to see what will happen.

No joke. Even last year Coleman was cement shoes. Serious props to Socha.

The only development even semi similar I can recall is Louis Rankin his senior year, but he had flashed a number of times just never put it together until his senior year. And he wasn't as good as Coleman is now.

Baphomet

NeGgaPlEaSe said:

Why not run and re run Coleman all night long for 20 carries. Rest Gaskin and let him get heathy for USC
Coleman might actually get to 1000 yards on the season. Gaskin will get there, but Coleman May actually make it.
600 yards at 9.1 yards per carry, 4 games left and now Gaskin is dinged up

I agree, I'd like to see Coleman running more. Maybe they thought Cal was weaker against the pass then they were against the run, so we ran more.

But how cool would it be to have two backs getting 1,000 yards in a season? I can only dream.

mobey

That would require us(?) to, you know, RUN THE FUCKING BALL.

And we know that will never happen.

After looking at the box score I guess we(?) ran more than I thought. It just felt like we(?) could have bludgeoned them on the ground early and often if we(?) wanted.

TierbsHsotBoobs

mobey said:

That would require us(?) to, you know, RUN THE FUCKING BALL.

And we know that will never happen.

There was no reason to run against Cal.

CuntWaffle

mobey said:

That would require us(?) to, you know, RUN THE FUCKING BALL.

And we know that will never happen.

After looking at the box score I guess we(?) ran more than I thought. It just felt like we(?) could have bludgeoned them on the ground early and often if we(?) wanted.

Yea lets run the ball against a team who pretty much plays without any DBs.

Good call.

2001400ex

I like the Gaskin wildcat call in the fourth quarter. That was money.

mobey

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

mobey said:

That would require us(?) to, you know, RUN THE FUCKING BALL.

And we know that will never happen.

There was no reason to run against Cal.

There's always a reason to run.

No better way to demoralize a team than to just kick the shit out of them on the ground.

mobey

CuntWaffle said:

mobey said:

That would require us(?) to, you know, RUN THE FUCKING BALL.

And we know that will never happen.

After looking at the box score I guess we(?) ran more than I thought. It just felt like we(?) could have bludgeoned them on the ground early and often if we(?) wanted.

Yea lets run the ball against a team who pretty much plays without any DBs.

Good call.

Gaskin only avged 15 YPC so good call on your part.

No way to win with that little effectiveness.

Dumbass.

MisterEm

mobey said:

CuntWaffle said:

mobey said:

That would require us(?) to, you know, RUN THE FUCKING BALL.

And we know that will never happen.

After looking at the box score I guess we(?) ran more than I thought. It just felt like we(?) could have bludgeoned them on the ground early and often if we(?) wanted.

Yea lets run the ball against a team who pretty much plays without any DBs.

Good call.

GaskinCement Shoes only avged 15 YPC so good call on your part.

No way to win with that little effectiveness.

Dumbass.

But still...

doogie

I like to bitch about how my undefeated team is underutilizing a bench player during blowouts.

Passion

DerekJohnson said:

Over the past 30 years, have we ever seen such a dramatic transformation of a running back at UW? Two years ago I viewed him as filler. More or less the way I view Dotson now. But now when I see Coleman take a handoff I'm excited to see what will happen.

How excited?

Swaye

Passion said:

DerekJohnson said:

Over the past 30 years, have we ever seen such a dramatic transformation of a running back at UW? Two years ago I viewed him as filler. More or less the way I view Dotson now. But now when I see Coleman take a handoff I'm excited to see what will happen.

How excited?

CuntWaffle

mobey said:

CuntWaffle said:

mobey said:

That would require us(?) to, you know, RUN THE FUCKING BALL.

And we know that will never happen.

After looking at the box score I guess we(?) ran more than I thought. It just felt like we(?) could have bludgeoned them on the ground early and often if we(?) wanted.

Yea lets run the ball against a team who pretty much plays without any DBs.

Good call.

Gaskin only avged 15 YPC so good call on your part.

No way to win with that little effectiveness.

Dumbass.

Lol you don't get it clearly.

doogsinparadise

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

mobey said:

That would require us(?) to, you know, RUN THE FUCKING BALL.

And we know that will never happen.

There was no reason to run against Cal.

Cal was literally the worst team in the country against the run. But still.

dhdawg

CuntWaffle said:

mobey said:

That would require us(?) to, you know, RUN THE FUCKING BALL.

And we know that will never happen.

After looking at the box score I guess we(?) ran more than I thought. It just felt like we(?) could have bludgeoned them on the ground early and often if we(?) wanted.

Yea lets run the ball against a team who pretty much plays without any DBs.

Good call.

quiet down. all the "shit on john smith even when we score 66" crowd is gonna get angry

TurdBomber

DerekJohnson said:

Over the past 30 years, have we ever seen such a dramatic transformation of a running back at UW? Two years ago I viewed him as filler. More or less the way I view Dotson now. But now when I see Coleman take a handoff I'm excited to see what will happen.

He's a very different back now. Faster, leaner, more aggressive.

The new strength and conditioning coaches are earning their paychecks.

But imagine if Ivan had gotten ahold of him!

TurdBomber

doogie said:

I like to bitch about how my undefeated team is underutilizing a bench player during blowouts.

*, because that's what I do.

Fixed it for ya.

Dennis_DeYoung

I was a big supporter of Lavon's in HS. In 2014 I thought he would take the job and he looked pretty good the first couple games, but then he got hesitant and lost confidence.

I would say the biggest change is his confidence. I know Socha and the training staff has done a great job, but the reason he looked slow early was because he's a one-cut back and early in his career he was dancing around and making multiple cuts. He got bottled up a lot. Didn't run hard consistently, etc.

Fast-forward 2 years (seems like longer) and he's making one cut and exploding. A lot of that has to do with Bonapha and emphasis on being consistent in giving top effort.

We saw flashes of it his freshman year, but in 2016 it's so awesome to see a kid actually GET BETTER.

So much of the Sark/Neu bullshit was predicated on denying that players could improve that much. Just throw them out there and if they aren't great, run them out of the program and find new guys. It was a way to justify them playing with their new toys and explain why they were playing a bunch of freshmen who should've redshirted (wouldn't it be fun to have Cory Littleton on this team? Or Joe Mathis, Daniels and KevKing back next year?)

Lavon Coleman is in the year (his redshirt junior year) where most players should start to see the lights come on unless they are truly exceptional. Physically they are mature, mentally they are mature, and they've had 3 years in the program to learn what they are supposed to do. Under DJ, I know the mantra was that they should play when they are RS-Sophs and start when they are RS-Jrs.

Now that we have a good (probably great) coach, I'm going to have to retire* the Sark ideal of ragging kids out when they first play and don't look amazing. We're going to have to wait for RS-Jr years and then see.

It's a weird new world, but Coleman isn't really doing anything but fulfilling the promise he showed at Hawaii in '14. He's just gotten more decisive, more confident, bigger, faster and stronger.










*does not include Jomon Dotson.