Comments on: Another sign of Ealey’s progress

By: godawgs

godawgs — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:48:45 +0000

Great effort by Ealey to finish out his fresman year. 180+ yards, 9.1 ypc, on 20 carries. Excellent passblocking in this game too. No fumbles–terrific ball protection. Nice quickness and cuts. Beautiful 30+ yard explosion runs. Still needs work on conditioning in off season, performance dropped (ypc) as the game wore on.

Ealey brought the “shock and awe” tonight. I couldn’t take a break when he was in, you never know what’s going to happen when Ealey’s in the backfield.

Good job living up to the Ealey standard. Ealey can CRUSH Walker’s career 5.29 ypc average if he focuses on HIS BEST EFFORT and competing with himself.

Ealey has a bowl game to go. He’s at 5.7 yards per carry for the season, which is above Walker’s career average, a tad below Herschel’s Freshman average of 5.9. After the Bowl game, with another great effort, Ealey will finish over 6.0 ypc for hs freshman season: breaking Herschels best ypc average–Herschel’s freshman season.

Ealey showed the drive is there and his focus is about his future, and living up to his potential, and not about his past accomplishments. That’s the attitude of a Champion.

Records are about to fall. Mark it down.

By: Gaboy Dawg Jacket

Gaboy Dawg Jacket — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:50:02 +0000

Reading all the jabs back N forth I can’t help but feel great pride about the great football teams, coaches, and talent that exist’s in the state I was born in and grew up in. I traveled the country during the summer following my son playing baseball witnessing him and his teammates live a dream representing the state of Ga. and all I heard was how much people loved us and they thought we were a football state, we are! Tech has had great players come through and now some awesome freshman waiting their turn, and the Dawgs have had greats and some exciting freshman playing & waiting to play. We enjoy a treasure most of the country dreams about. My highlights: Tech-Shawn Jones 1990 season & Hamilton’s career, Dogs-Butler’s fieldgoal attempt at Clemson, Belue to Scott TD, meeting Hershel his senior year high school winning high point award for track then watching as a freshman dominate SEC. Best moment: Spending the day with Coach Bobby Bowden 84-85 1st Annual Citris Bowl. Let the war begin!

By: godawgs

godawgs — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:57:19 +0000

Ealey had a 55 yard explosion run on his 8th rush. It was called back by a penalty. Still had a nice game. Great 9 yard run by the goal-line. That 55 yard run WOULD have brought his ypc average to 6.9 for this game. Oh well, it’s still a 5.0 ypc average for the season. Ealey looked a little tired in the 4th Qrtr. Look for Ealey to improve his conditioning in the off-season. Jerry Rice was known for his off season conditioning. Jerry always looked as fresh in the 4th Qrtrt as the 1st.

By: godawgs

godawgs — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:32:54 +0000

P.S. of the 13 guys who broke Herschel’s high school rushing yards record, none of the RB’s had a great college career. Why? They thought they’d already achieved every goal. They focused on their PAST STATS. The drive was gone. The hunger evaporated after breaking that record.

Ealey COULD be different. bUT….He’ll need to set new goals to be HIS BEST at this level, just as he was in High School. Like Walker, they both came from small A schools where nobody thought they were the real deal. Walker proved his critics were DEAD WRONG! I think Ealey will Shatter some of Walker’s records if he ONLY COMPETES WITH HIMSELF. Like all the great ones, Jerry Rice, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Bill Russell, I sense Ealey has it. Watch and see–you are about to experience SHOCK AND AWE!

By: godawgs

godawgs — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:16:07 +0000

Here are some records that are about to fall, thanks to Ealey, if Bobo will give him a chance (25+ carries a game):

1) Herschel’s 5.29 career yards per carry average (this one will be SHATTERED–Ealey’s at 5.2 now ONLY becuase he’s been rotating in games like Tenn Tech where he was averasging 12.7 yards per carry–he’d be at 6.0 ypc if he’d been the 1 back like Herschel was )

2) Herschel’s 49 td’s (will fall in the next 30 games if Ealey stays healthy and if Bobo gives him 25 touches a game–he needs to score a TD every 15 touches–ealey had 2 td’s in 7 touches against Tenn Tech)

3) Herschel’s 285 yards in one game (will be SHATTERED–Ealey was averaging 12 ypc before he was benched during the Tenn Tech game, he was on track for a 490 yard game with the 39 runs Bobo called)

By: Yellow Fuzz

Yellow Fuzz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:43:04 +0000

“ Wes Bunting of NationalFootballPost.com lists Dwyer, a junior, as the best running back on the board and the No. 8 overall NFL prospect. Bunting called Dwyer “a violent runner who exhibits good vision between the tackles and has the initial burst to separate from defenders at the second level.”

There must be some mistake. Dwyer plays in that “gimmick”, “high school”, “triple option” system that no blue chip recruit with aspirations of playing in the NFL would ever consider………………Hahahaha. Some dog nation bloggers on here are wrong about absolutely everything. See you azzholes on the 28th and bring all those top 5 recruiting classes with you! LOL.

45-42

By: godawgs

godawgs — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:55:13 +0000

Given everything Ealey accomplished in High School, it only got him a chance to get his foot in the door. Now he has to show the EFFORT every practice, every play, give HIS BEST EFFORT to reach his POTENTIAL. Upside is huge, but if he slows up in effort or coasts on his High School or past laurels–he’ll just go down as a High School legend—another guy with BIG UPSIDE that never REALIZED IT. Time will tell. Ealey, I think you’ll get better in ypc, explosion plays as Bob gives you 20+ touches a gem. You’ve earned that right once. Go earn it every game! Getting Freshman of the Week, gives me hope, that FINALLY, an RB with BiG UPSIDE, can match the POTENTIAL with his BEST EFFORT consistently.

By: RED DOG 77

RED DOG 77 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:32:43 +0000

Mr. Ealey is already a damn good dog, give him a couple years with all the new talent we have and my beloved BULLDOGS will be taking everybody in the SEC s lunch money once again. You see, if a dog is mistreated he will end up bitting the crap out of you , always have, always will…….GO DOGS

By: godawgs

godawgs — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:06:45 +0000

Ealey’s 5.2 per carry on the year, vs. 4.7 for King. Ealey’s a FRESHMAN and he’s ALREADY OUTRUSHING King. Ealey’s the man.

By: kerryb

kerryb — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:21:47 +0000

I love it. All of these over confident Yellow Backett fans. That will make the fall even more harder.