Stanford's running back, whom I wrote about a few weeks ago, rushed for 223 yards on 38 carries in Stanford's 51-42 upset of #8 Oregon (who crushed USC last week). Toby Gerhart now has 1217 yards in 9 games and 16 touchdowns for 6-3 Stanford.
Phil Knight puts his Nike money into Oregon, so Oregon's offense is almost unstoppable -- over 600 yards last week against USC, and this week 570 yards in only 22 minutes of possession. Stanford's strategy was to get the lead and have Gerhart use up the clock.
He has the opportunity to petition for another season of college eligibility because he missed all but one game of his sophomore year. I've got to imagine that some Silicon Valley bigshots who are Stanford alums would make it worth his while to do so, especially now that Stanford's freshman quarterback, Andrew Luck, looks like he'll be pretty good next year. Why go to the NFL and sit on the bench or get your body permanently wrecked as a pro running back when you can be the toast of Silicon Valley?
Phil Knight puts his Nike money into Oregon, so Oregon's offense is almost unstoppable -- over 600 yards last week against USC, and this week 570 yards in only 22 minutes of possession. Stanford's strategy was to get the lead and have Gerhart use up the clock.
He has the opportunity to petition for another season of college eligibility because he missed all but one game of his sophomore year. I've got to imagine that some Silicon Valley bigshots who are Stanford alums would make it worth his while to do so, especially now that Stanford's freshman quarterback, Andrew Luck, looks like he'll be pretty good next year. Why go to the NFL and sit on the bench or get your body permanently wrecked as a pro running back when you can be the toast of Silicon Valley?
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OT: CSPAN coverage of the health care bill debate in the House features a continual stream of left wing lady representatives who want to empower the state to provide for all their wants and needs.
There must be a 10:1 ratio of (D) females to (R) females in the U.S. House.
Judging by the comments of the women in this debate, the fairer sex WILL DEFINITELY chuck liberty into the trashcan in exchange for 'security' provided by the state.
MATRIARCHY = DESTRUCTION OF LIBERTY
But we shouldn't be paying special attention to him.
Just like we shouldn't take special note of women police officers or black science professors, everyone performs as an individual, regardless of demography.
Gerhart is one of several college running backs having good seasons for teams having a mix of good games and bad games.
Are you serious? If the kid can cash a big check in the Not For Long he should do so without delay.
See Bradford, Samuel Jacob for details.
I suspect that the amount of money a star college athlete receives from corrupt boosters is miniscule compared to NFL salaries.
Not sure what you have in mind when it comes to Stanford alum making it "worth his while" to stick around, but I'm pretty sure it would not measure up to the money he'd be making in the NFL.
SPEAKING OF MOVING OR STAYING WHERE YOU ALREADY ARE, HERE IS A GALLUP REPORT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST VIA IMMIGRATION:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/124193/Potential-Net-Migration-Change-Developed-Nations.aspx?version=print
November 6, 2009
Potential Net Migration Could Change Nations
Developed countries would swell, leaving developing countries relatively empty
by Neli Esipova, Rajesh Srinivasan, and Julie Ray
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- If all the adults worldwide who Gallup surveys show would like to migrate actually picked up and moved where they wanted, Gallup's Potential Net Migration Index (PNMI) suggests many developed countries could be overwhelmed and many developing countries could sit relatively empty.
The Potential Net Migration Index is the estimated number of adults who would like to move permanently out of a country subtracted from the estimated number who would like to move into it, as a proportion of the total adult population. The results are based on nationally representative surveys of more than 260,000 adults worldwide. The higher the resulting positive PNMI value, the larger the potential net adult population gain. In Turkey, for example, subtracting the estimated 7 million adults who would like to move abroad from the 2 million adults who would like to move to Turkey and dividing that number by the total adult population (52 million) results in a PNMI value of -10%.
Probably no single individual is ready to pay the amounts needed to keep a pro prospect. What an opportunity! Create a system that collects funds and funnels them surreptitiously to college players. Old time booster stuff...but on STEROIDS. Fig and lit.
How does Stanford continually engineer these upsets in football? I know Oregon was coming down from a huge high after walloping the hated Trojans, but this is still quite noteworthy. Unlike basketball, you need at least 25 good players to compete at the highest level in football. With Stanford's academic standards, how they manage to get enough football players to compete against the football factories such as USC is a puzzle to me. Do they just have so many people in California that even an academically demanding institution like Stanford can compete on this level?
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It's not the under the table money, it would be the over the table money later as the hometown hero who passed up a year in the NFL for the sake of the alma mater of many of the richest men in America's second richest hometown.
We're not even talking about the kid leaving before 4 years...but his optional red shirting. Sheesh, Steve. Stanford alums will love him the same regardless. Especially a few years down the road!
Average NFL running back makes $957k in one year. Fullbacks probably significantly less.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0807/nfl.average.salaries.by.position/content.8.html
How many IPOs would you have to get cut in on at the pre-market price to make that up.
"How many IPOs would you have to get cut in on at the pre-market price"
How many IPOs are there nowadays :/
I heard Gerhart is also a MLB prospect.
He might be wise to choose baseball since that huge knee brace he wears does not indicate a long career in the NFL.
Gerhart has indicated he'd prefer baseball to football, if he could get drafted high enough. But the merely-pretty good numbers he's put up on Stanford's baseball team make him more of a project at this point. The idea of an outfielder the size of a first baseman is intriguing -- the Dodgers have a 230 pound centerfielder in Matt Kemp who isn't the most refined ballplayer yet, but he's a 230 pounder who is fast enough to play center -- but you still have to be able to get your bat on the ball often enough, which is a particular skill that some people have and a lot of people don't.
Anyway, my general point is that being an extremely valuable college athlete is an accomplishment in and of itself, regardless of whether or not you have the particular attributes to succeed at the pro level. Vince Young or Tim Tebow might never be Pro Bowlers, but they were great college quarterbacks.
Gerhart looks like the kind of guy who might have gone to some Pro Bowls in the 1970s NFL, when teams needed a steady 3 to 4 yards per carry because passing was so perilous back then, but now they'd likely make him a fullback and give him three carries per game. So, why not enjoy being an extremely valuable college player?
Mike Eruzione scored the winning goal in the 1980 US Olympic hockey victory over the Soviets, and I'm not sure if he's done a lick of work in the Boston area ever since, other than giving motivational speeches and being a guest at charity golf tournaments.
"Gerhart looks like the kind of guy who might have gone to some Pro Bowls in the 1970s NFL,..."
You wouldn't be stereotyping this young man by the color of his skin, would you?
A comparison to Eruzione is probably not accurate. Eruzione was an east coaster in a hockey mad area. I don't think Silicon Valley billionaires give a damn about college football, or even pro for that matter. I don't think they are the ones getting dressed up in spiked shoulder pads to go to Raider games.
Mike Eruzione scored the winning goal in the 1980 US Olympic hockey victory over the Soviets, and I'm not sure if he's done a lick of work in the Boston area ever since, other than giving motivational speeches and being a guest at charity golf tournaments.
You're a movie critic - have you ever seen Everybody's All-American?
It was supposed to have been about the UNC-CH football star from the late 1940s, Charlie "Choo-Choo" Justice, but the UNC people took one look at the script and realized that it was so depressing that they refused to allow it to be shot in Chapel Hill, and the script had to be rewritten so that the movie could be set in Baton Rouge.
And it is a very, very depressing movie.
PS: Back in the day, Dennis Quaid was in some really outstanding films. Obviously there was Breaking Away, but have you ever seen Flesh and Bone? That's a seriously dark and depressing movie, featuring probably the best [and easily the most erotic & romantic] performance of Meg Ryan's career.
"Mike Eruzione scored the winning goal in the 1980 US Olympic hockey victory over the Soviets, and I'm not sure if he's done a lick of work in the Boston area ever since, other than giving motivational speeches and being a guest at charity golf tournaments."
I guess sports really is the opiate of the masses
A year or two in the NFL will increase his potential income as a marketing lead for some established electronics company which sells to big non-silicon-valley buyers (like the guvmint). As long as he can shmooze well, he's got it made.
change the substitution rules and continueous clock as rugby has and you'd have plenty of white running backs. ok maybe the offside rule helps too......
But, look at rugby - even 'diverse' south africa's team is nearly all white.
Just like we shouldn't take special note of women police officers or black science professors, everyone performs as an individual, regardless of demography
Amen, brother. Dude ran for 82 yards and no touchdowns against a bad Wake Forest team.
Speaking of running backs Larry Johnson just lost his job for using the word "fag".
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