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RB already thinning out
- Thread starter Big Jim
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I'm already missing Wood and Spruce...
It's time we leaf them alone and branch out into new topics.
We beat that subject to a pulp. Time to go against the grain.
What a treet that wood be.
This is going to sound sappy to some, but you guys are an AB treesure.
Lamont was a very cool under-the-radar-screen RB. Had a nice pro career, as you say.
I can honestly say that I've never given the idea of Moeller at RB a single thought.
Yeah. When a walk-on finds a position where he earns early playing time and a scholarship, becoming a sophomore starter, it doesn't enter my head that maybe he's playing out of position.
@PAHIBuff - did you see Moeller play in HS or something?
He was a MONSTER RB at Rifle, CO HS (medium/small division), in a part of the state that doesn't get recruited heavily. I don't have the numbers at hand but he consistently ran for over 200-250 ypg and sometimes over 300. A western slope McCaffrey, if you will. If he'd have taken any of his FCS offers he'd have been a great FCS RB. Actually, if he'd have been able to go to a really good P5 program, he'd probably been playing RB from the start.
I don't know that he was a great RB as much as he was just far and away the best athlete on the field. I picture him in college as one of those RBs who spends his time looking for somebody to run into. I think in HS lots of his yards came from running somebody over then running past and away from everyone else.
My sense is that safety is the right place for him.
It also shows just how out of touch Embree was in refusing to give him a scholly from day one. We need to be thankful that Ryan was a Buff through and through because had he pursued it he could have been a star in at least the MWC on scholly from day one.
Buffenuf
massive tool
Considering all that "talent" that WB recruited east of the Mississippi (Yuri Wright anyone?)....its like he adopted the RPatton, "No Colo kid is good enough" attitude!
I think you are exaggerating quite a bit with your last sentence. Why would he have more opportunities at RB at a bigger, better program than CU?
Possibly/Probably. He was plugged in at a position of extreme need at CU. In any event, it worked out well for him.
Exactly. He'd be a safety everywhere. Pahi going over the edge!
I live there….
Here's the deal, and JMHO. I think if RM would have lived/played in a big Front Range Colorado HS he'd have easily racked up 1500-2000 yds per season as a junior and a senior, and been recruited as a RB by CSU, Wyo, and a few other G5s, and possibly some P5s. I do agree that safety is a good spot for him at CU, a program which is utterly clueless about the running game. He might get a look as an UDFA as a safety in the NFL.
This is a thread about CU RBs. I hope to heck that Julmisse is as good as I hope he might be, because we suck at RB. Lindsay is not great, and Beau B is a risk. Lee is not a RB.
If RM was inserted onto the offense right now he'd likely be the best back on the team, with Adkins being hurt most of the time.
This is a thread about CU RBs. I hope to heck that Julmisse is as good as I hope he might be, because we suck at RB. Lindsay is not great, and Beau B is a risk. Lee is not a RB.
If RM was inserted onto the offense right now he'd likely be the best back on the team, with Adkins being hurt most of the time.
You realize MM did not give him a scholarship from day one either... right?
You're welcome.
There have multiple RBs on the front range over the last few years that have rushed for 1800-2000 yards that haven't been recruited as a RB. RM is a good player for CU and has found a way onto the field as a starter at S. Quit trying to make erroneous claims that he could be a dominant RB on this, or any other G5 or P5 team.
lawdogg
Club Member
Let him go; he's on a roll.
Now going full IDOT!
There was no need to, he was already locked into coming as a PWO. M2 also hadn't spent any time evaluating him.
He didn't have the MWC offers because he had made it clear that he was going to CU.
Should he have had a list of P5 offers? No, he came from a small school the played weak competition and he dominated because he was a better athlete than everybody, he wasn't a better athlete than P5 players.
He was however a better football player than a number of guys that were signed in that time period based on HS performance like Hasselbeck and Lisella and even Lindsay.
Compare what he has accomplished so far on the field to what the majority of the guys signed in the Embree and early M2 classes have combined with his HS career and his character and tell me that Embree was right to have forced him to walk on.
Again I can understand M2 doing it, he simply didn't have the time to know but JE almost screwed this one up good.
Embree definitely dropped the ball in not pursuing Moeller more aggressively, but why would you automatically give a scholarship to a player you are unsure about due to the level of competition if you knew he would come as a PWO?
Makes very little sense.
Makes very little sense.
Because as much as he wanted to be a Buff it would have been very easy for him to go elsewhere.
I know that at least 3-4 MWC programs were very interested and he could have had school paid for. It isn't unreasonable to think that some other lower end P5 school could have come in and sold him on signing with them.
He loved CU and had his heart set on CU but when you are talking about the full cost of attending versus having it fully paid for minds can change.
Only one of many things that JE did though that resulted in taking the bad program that Hawkins left him and turning it into a black hole.