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Is or was Coleman under utilized?..
NeGgaPlEaSe
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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
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
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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.
But how cool would it be to have two backs getting 1,000 yards in a season? I can only dream.
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.
Good call.
No better way to demoralize a team than to just kick the shit out of them on the ground.
No way to win with that little effectiveness.
Dumbass.
The new strength and conditioning coaches are earning their paychecks.
But imagine if Ivan had gotten ahold of him!
Fixed it for ya.
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.