Barrington Edwards

Nice post TE. I agree with most everything you say. Experience is a huge advantage to JV right now and Broussard and Edwards can only catch up.

 

Knowledge is power, and ignorance is bliss.

J Vincent was a late qualifier and entered school last year at about this time. He was allowed to practice with the team prior to the Cotton Bowl. That pre Bowl practice and spring practice does give him an advantage over the true freshmen.

 

it sounds like everyone wants justin to lose his spot. he has earned it and done a great job for only starting six games this season and puttin up the numbers he did. and if someone else is better then him then they deserve to play. i dont think the other running backs are as good as justin. ive watched justin since high school and he has all the tools and the total package. and he has plenty of time to keep improving. yea hes a year a head of the others that makes a difference but justin is a natural runner and will only get better. ive also seen alley play in high school he is a good runner but not near as fast as justin. he is a bulldozer runner. i havent seen much of b.e. and i havent been that impressed by him. as long as justin is at lsu it will be hard for him to lose his startin spot. he will only lose it if he gets hurt. these are my opinions and im not tryin to make anyone mad. i just dont know why everyone is always tryin to make it seem like another running back should be playin ahead of him. lsu has a great back field i think alley should be at full back and justin should get more of the carries then he does. hes is a game breaker. he can make a play at any time and lsu needs him. and they need the depth with everyone else. justin vincent has a bright future a head of him and it will only get better.

 

With Vincent, Addai, Broussard & Edwards (sounds like a law firm) the only way that Saban will be able to give them all signifigant playing time would be if the Tigers start running the wishbone. Vincent may have the advantage of being here a little longer than Alley or BE but he did manage to separate himself from the pack and with his MVP preformance in the SECCG the starting tailback job is his until somebody takes it away from him. The only downside to having the stable of young quality running backs is that it will be difficult to recruit more good running backs for a couple of years.

 

I follow recruiting more than the average fan, although I am not anywhere close to being as knowledgeable as some of you guys. I do know that we are supposedly neck and neck with Miami for Early. It is also worth noting that Dandydon believes he is headed to BR. I, too, find it hard to believe he won't be a Tiger. In addition, I know X Carter and his 4.3 speed has LSU as his leader, with a few others close behind. Basically, I know everything I can possibly know with internet access and a daily following of the matter. Further, it definitely does seem as though Michael will be coming back next year.

I would say that in regard to these three things I am cautiously, yet rationally optimistic. The objective to this post, alas, is that I am wanting to know why you, islstl, seem so much more sure of these three things than I. I want to know what exactly it is that has you so sure of the future occurance of these important things...not because I doubt you, but because I would love to stop stressing over these matters. Help me sleep at night, and if it isn't too much trouble, please enlighten me as to the basis of your certainty.....thanks

 

Just to add something to the running back discussion, if Toefield had not left early, we would have had him in the backfield this year too. I'm not sure we would be having this discussion b/c the freshman backs probably would have red-shirted. It's nice to see us turning out some great RB's. DD has a good shot at rookie of the year, K. Faulk had a good season, and Toe scored a TD today. A few years from now we could have 6-7 RB's in the NFL. That's pretty impressive

 

Thanks Doc, you're right and with Toe back we wouldn't have had Carey getting hurt so the 3 freshamn would have gotten even that much less playing time and JV might have gotten a much longer look at DB, strange how things work out isn't it. And to Yellowex, I haven't read one post here that says JV shouldn't be the starter, should lose his job, etc. All of the post are just saying that all 3 of these freshman are extremely talented, all THREE of them. You and the other JV guy are not looking at the whole picture and your bias is making your put more into these post than is being said. I really don't think you could find a guy on this thread that does not love JV but by the same token he IS going to have to compete for the position for his entire career. I don't know if you two guys are young and haven't seen what happens in college football, especially around LSU over the years but the fact is that all of our GREATEST teams ahve had at least 2 great runnning backs getting a lot of playing time. I mentioned all of them in a previous post. Saban is a guy that likes to keep fresh legs in the game at all times and also loves to have situational guys that practice the same 7-8 plays all of the time and have them down pat so that when the situation comes up in a game we have the best opportunity to be successful. That's why you say Carey come in on third and long before he was hurt again and also now suspended, Carey came in on second and long and third and medium to run mostly draw plays out of the shotgun, JV lined up in most other formations, AB came in on several short yardage plays, etc. There is plenty of room for these guys to get some playing time and the ones that compete in practivce and produce in games are going to get the most and that is JV. If you think he's going to win a Heisman here you can probably pretty much forget that unless we have some serious injuries as that is just not Saban's way. Neither Toe nor Davis got the bulk of the carries last year and Adai got quite a few also. anyway, don't feel threatened by these posts, no one is going just take Justin out of the mix, from the looks of things he will be the number one back for a while, maybe even 3 more years.

 

Sorry if I came off as a homer earlier, I just didn't see a way that BE moves in front of Vincent on the depth chart unless JV goes down with an injury. But, you guys are acting as if because JV has gone through a spring practice that he wont' get any better. He will get a lot better once he becomes more durable and learns how to block better. But, with all that said, if Barrington does become a better back than JV then I'm all for him being the number one back, but IMO JV is just too damn good to let that happen. But, I never really realized that Clayton, Early, and Xavier were such 'done deals' at LSU next year, so thats why I mentioned the position change.

 

Quote "But, I never really realized that Clayton, Early, and Xavier were such 'done deals' at LSU next year, so thats why I mentioned the position change."

They aren't DONE deals yet, I'm sure just wishful thinking at this point but hopefully we will get them. Barrington isn't really a speed guy though, not like Devery anyway, he has good, not great speed, he's more a runner like Justin who has great natural instinct, a great first few steps and also has power, I would think he would not be suited for a wideout. And you know Alley wouldn't either. But injuries will always be part of the equation also, ask UGA, they had 3 different starters go down this year.