(05-28-2020 03:42 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(05-28-2020 09:20 AM)Teamduh Wrote:  

(05-23-2020 06:26 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(05-23-2020 06:21 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(05-23-2020 05:05 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  I agree. We'd have to go back to Chad Spann, and maybe Wolfe, to see his kind of talent at running the ball. He reminded me a bit of Thomas Rawls at CMU, whom we couldn't stop when we played them. Speaking of which, do you have any thoughts on why he didn't play more at NIU?

Huff was behind Bouganon, who had somewhat of a pro career. Huff was explosive everytime he had the ball in his hands. I remember he wasn't 100% healthy his senior year

I guess I wondered why he was behind Bouagnon certainly Huff was easily the better runner.

Huff wasn't the better runner. He was the faster runner but he couldn't read the line or plays like Joel B. Joel would get 4 yards and move the chains. Huff could get 10 but many times misread and get 0. On those team's the QB play down to 3rd string and getting first downs was precious. Joel was by far the better choice for those teams.

It's hard to argue that even that is worth 2.5 ypc difference. There was little chance we'd march down the field in 15 plays and score with those QBs in there. Somebody had to make a big play and we didn't have that. I'd accept an occasional loss to have somebody in there that might actually do something. And we didn't have any guaranteed 4 yards with Bouagnon either.

Agreed, that offense was so ineffective because of lack of passing attack. We needed a threat in the running game so we could actually score some points. If I recall correctly, Huff had a higher YPC average than JB too. JB was not a big play threat and was not quick.