The irish fan inside me agrees and was hanging on the hopes he'd return. I don't believe even Irish fans fully grasp the lost opportunity here. The explosive talent he had was not fully on display because he was sharing the backfield with a Heisman contender and one ball to share... arguably, he is the reason Love did not get the Heisman but for good reasons as he was so good there was no reason to lean too heavily just on Love. All the love for Love but man, what a ride it would have been to see him as the feature back every game. Ultimately, it's just a game and these are college kids, so if he felt it was the best next step, good for him and onward to hopefully a fantastic career in the NFL.
He's projected as like the #2 or #3 RB in the draft, how much more could he benefit? And he has already lost a year to injury. I would have loved for him to stay but it makes total sense for him to go. We'll be fine with the next guys up.
I thought if he would’ve stayed he could’ve been what Love was this season & possibly raised his draft stock a bit. I get why he’s leaving but for both Irish fan reasons & others I thought he could’ve benefited from another year. Similar reason to (outside of discipline) Floyd coming back for 2011 when he could’ve left with Rudolph after the 2010 season.
Well, love was as good or better than any of our receivers at catching in traffic. I’m having him on the field would attract at least two defensive players attention, which would make handoff to Price much more interesting. It’s about getting the best people that you have on the field at the same time. We won’t break in any records with our wide receiver room so there was absolutely zero excuse for not running those two studs at all time.
I think it was mostly high-risk/mid-reward.
When you say he "could've been what Love was this season", I think you mean he could've been RB1? Not that he would've somehow been J. Love? I'm a huge fan of Price but he's not Love. Price is an excellent RB and we were spoiled to have two of them but no amount of snaps would've changed Price into Love.
Being the #1 and having a great year could actually hurt his stock because of the increased mileage. He’s already proved he’s a Porsche.
That’s what I was saying he would’ve been RB 1 with Williams at RB tearing up Defenses hopefully en route back to the playoffs.
Yeah, I do too. They could just keep handing the ball off to Pinkett play after play. Unfortunately for the Irish, I remember Tony Dorsett (Pitt) a decade beforehand getting the ball about that many times when they played the Irish and we just couldn't tackle his ass.
"Pinkett, Pinkett, Pinkett, Punt."
Triggered.
