Comments on: The Answer Is No

By: McD

McD — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:22:25 +0000

He’s gotta be an every down back, get more than 180 carries, and have at least as many yards as last year. A Doak Walker award or even Heisman finalist wouldn’t hurt either. He’s just got to be the man for Cal, basically, not just a pretty toy for the O to use and then fail on passing downs.

By: J. Edgersuit

J. Edgersuit — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:33:52 +0000

OK McD, what does Best have to do this year in your mind to be equal to Bush?

By: Phillips

Phillips — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:24:13 +0000

Guys, no one is saying Jahvid Best isn’t a good running back. Just saying it’s insane to compare him to Reggie Bush at this point in his development. Sorry, it just is. Bush was arguably the most dynamic college football player since Barry Sanders. Best ain’t there yet.

By: McD

McD — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:01:30 +0000

Of course the schedule isn’t Best’s fault. And it’s not his fault that he faced crappy defenses. Playing bad teams is what got him overrated, which is what he and Bush share. But no one can say (except for Jeff Tedford, I guess) that Best is as good right now as Reggie Bush was at USC. Best simply hasn’t done enough, and we would have said the same thing about Bush at this point in his career. Yet he managed to put together an even better season in 2005 and won the Heisman. If Best does that this year, then throw him in the Heisman convo. But a good bowl performance and a lot of needless yards in 2008 don’t warrant anything. Pre-season hype is exactly that.

By: sikes

sikes — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:04:11 +0000

yep. you’re a moron. congrats.

the point was general–you picked only games that suited well to be your straw-men.

i guess jahvid should be blamed that miami isn’t the old miami and that ucla sucked (even though their defense has at least a trio of first day drafts including a round 1 dt), and that lendale white did better against cal than bush did. got it.

and i imagine uw and wsu and ucla and oregon and stanford were amazing defenses when bush was running against them? did bush by any chance have any big days against sorry defenses? bush probably never put up anything against teams that allowed a lot of points or yards huh? The best defense and best team bush faced in 2004 was cal. He rushed 8 times for 23 yards. I don’t see you posting that stat. And if he averaged all those yards then he must have been getting fat against the crummy defenses, just like everybody else.

your argument simply sucks pal. move on.

the conference is better now than 4-5 years ago. And best goes against a great d in usc which bush didn’t do. How much better would bush have done against last year’s usc d?

Best had better stats than Bush at the same point and he was running behind a line that had 3 starters out to injury. When he puts up 1500 again this year though, you’ll no doubt have a good time chiming in about how much he sucks.

but good luck to you if cal’s oline holds up this year and they put down usc. b/c if they do you can enjoy being the contrarian about the rb at the heisman ceremony.