More carries: Wells or Pittman

[exhawg]

Originally Posted by osugrad21

Done

Thanks. Time to go spend some money on a high class vwhore.

[osugrad21]

Double or nothing??

SI



Buckeyes' Off And Running
It's Troy Smith's party, but it was Ohio State's running backs that brought the punch to the Buckeyes' win over Michigan. You just knew Smith was going to dominate the Wolverines, but nobody could have expected OSU would run for 157 more yards against UM's lock-down run defense, which had been allowing just 29.9 yards per game. Antonio Pittman and Chris Wells each surpassed that figure on their TD runs of 56 and 52 yards, respectively. Wells, OSU's heralded freshman, should give Pittman -- who is returning in 2007 for a shot at the Heisman -- serious competition for carries. Despite Pittman's consecutive 1,000-yard seasons (the first for a Buckeyes running back since Eddie George) a former OSU player told me Pittman doesn't run with the same hunger as Wells -- who is ultimately the better back -- and takes too many direct hits instead of eluding tacklers. He expects Pittman's shortcomings to be exposed next season without Smith. Any RB controversy is obviously months away, but for now OSU has one of the country's most explosive one-two punches in the backfield, giving Arkansas' Darren McFadden and Felix Jones a run for their money.

[scarletngray]

I think both Pitt and Beanie split time in the backfield next year and it wouldn't surprise me at all to see them both get 1,000 yds. Would this be a first in OSU history?

[JCOSU86]

I think Archie and Flam or Archie and Pete each gained 1000 yds in 1974 or 1975

[OregonBuckeye]

Let the haters keep on hatin'. Pittman is a beast.

[OSU_Buckguy]

according to a guy i sat next to during the game, pittman may not be coming back next year. the gentleman has a daughter who attends osu. she's probably in a sorority, though he didn't mention it. a few of her friends date football players, and these players were forthcoming during the last week in that pittman does not want to share rushing duties with beanie and will leave early because of that.

rumors are rumors are rumors. i take it with a grain of salt, just as the guy who told me does, too. he wasn't sure either what to make of what he was told. there are too many degrees of separation for the truth to be maintained. then again, this would not be the first time that a player told the public that he would return but then decided to enter the nfl draft.

[exhawg]

Originally Posted by OSU_Buckguy

according to a guy i sat next to during the game, pittman may not be coming back next year. the gentleman has a daughter who attends osu. she's probably in a sorority, though he didn't mention it. a few of her friends date football players, and these players were forthcoming during the last week in that pittman does not want to share rushing duties with beanie and will leave early because of that.

rumors are rumors are rumors. i take it with a grain of salt, just as the guy who told me does, too. he wasn't sure either what to make of what he was told. there are too many degrees of separation for the truth to be maintained. then again, this would not be the first time that a player told the public that he would return but then decided to enter the nfl draft.

Pittman would be dumb to leave. I think he showed in the Ill. game that he is better with limited carries. He could use another year to develop. I would love to see both of them get 15-20 carries a game next season.