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RB Bri'onte Dunn (dismissed from team)

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ShowMeBuck said:
Yeah, I think most of Buckeye Nation feels the same way. If this dude even starts to get going, the crowd will get behind him. Nobody wants to see the running game drop off and everyone loves a patient team guy. Really hoping he goes off early and rides that momentum.
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Agreed! Its hard to not get behind Brionte if youre a real Buckeye fan, and followed his recruitment through signing, and up until this point, his almost forgetful career. I really hope he gets it together and at the very least can make a competent duo with Weber. I also wanted the same for Ball, and if he couldn't get it done for the Bucks to put in work in his final year.
 
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I'm not down on Dunn and hope he has a monster year. I'm not sure that's going to happen, though, with any of our RBs and I'm glad we've got JT back to run things like it's 2014. Dunn drew bad cards having to deal with Hyde and Elliott back to back, no doubt. However, if he was that-level good, he would've been seeing the field. He was in competition with Hyde and arguably had an advantage because Hyde was an underachiever at that point. He got it together under Urban and became the man. Elliott was handpicked by Urban, yes, but he wasn't 2014/15 Elliott right away (although there were definitely flashes of what might be to come). Dunn could've (should've?) taken that opportunity to be the upperclassman who took over for Hyde. It didn't happen and Elliott became great. Elliott was always going to eventually be great (overall best, imho), but Dunn had a chance to delay that ascendance and didn't.

That brings us to 2016. Samuel, another Urban want/get of whose talent we've only really seen flashes and two hungry and talented RBs (one of whom Urban took over a higher-ranked back, at the time, re-visiting Elliott's recruitment) are ready and pushing. That says to me that Dunn has to just destroy it this spring and summer in order to be the man. Reports that he and Weber are neck and neck right now do not bode well for the older guy who's never made it happen before.
 
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RugbyBuck said:
I'm not down on Dunn and hope he has a monster year. I'm not sure that's going to happen, though, with any of our RBs and I'm glad we've got JT back to run things like it's 2014. Dunn drew bad cards having to deal with Hyde and Elliott back to back, no doubt. However, if he was that-level good, he would've been seeing the field. He was in competition with Hyde and arguably had an advantage because Hyde was an underachiever at that point. He got it together under Urban and became the man. Elliott was handpicked by Urban, yes, but he wasn't 2014/15 Elliott right away (although there were definitely flashes of what might be to come). Dunn could've (should've?) taken that opportunity to be the upperclassman who took over for Hyde. It didn't happen and Elliott became great. Elliott was always going to eventually be great (overall best, imho), but Dunn had a chance to delay that ascendance and didn't.

That brings us to 2016. Samuel, another Urban want/get of whose talent we've only really seen flashes and two hungry and talented RBs (one of whom Urban took over a higher-ranked back, at the time, re-visiting Elliott's recruitment) are ready and pushing. That says to me that Dunn has to just destroy it this spring and summer in order to be the man. Reports that he and Weber are neck and neck right now do not bode well for the older guy who's never made it happen before.
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You realize you are talking about a first round draft pick in Zeke right? Dunn would have seen the field earlier in all but probably a small handful of programs.
 
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ShowMeBuck said:
You realize you are talking about a first round draft pick in Zeke right? Dunn would have seen the field earlier in all but probably a small handful of programs.
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Yes, I said I regard Elliott as the overall best we've ever had. My point was that before that happened Dunn had a chance to beat him out. There was a short window when he could've stepped in (if he was good enough) and that didn't happen. I'm not blaming him. I feel for the guy and have been (obviously in a much lesser context) in a similar position. I'd like to see him come out and make himself a draft choice. However, for him to make that happen I think he'll have to really distance himself from the two younger backs and from what we've read that hasn't happened. Maybe he and Weber aren't really that close and Meyer and Alford are just trying to motivate him. Obviously, I have no knowledge of that.
 
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It's Now or Never Time For Bri'onte Dunn

Football careers are really hard to predict; really hard.

There are players who explode onto the scene to be major contributors almost immediately. Remember a guy named Maurice Clarrett? Go back a little further. How about Andy Katzenmoyer. A bit further and you may remember a freshman named Archie Griffin. More recently, players like Ezekiel Elliott and Joey Bosa have come aboard and by their second season established themselves as something special.

We’ve also seen the other side of that. It took five years for Darryl Baldwin to get on the field, and all he did was help win a national championship as a starter at right tackle. Chase Farris had a solid senior season as a starter also waiting five years for his chance. It took Curtis Grant four years to find himself as well as fellow linebacker Etienne Sabino. Both those guys were highly recruited, but weren’t large contributors until very late in their OSU football careers.

There’s another guy on the OSU roster who has been around a long time, so long that a lot of people have kind of written him off. His name is Bri’onte Dunn, and he wants very much to finally be a factor as a running back at Ohio State.

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Dunn arrived at OSU in 2012, a highly-touted prospect who was ranked either a four-star back or a five-star back depending on which recruiting service you looked at. He played in 11 games as a true freshman and gained 133 yards and scored two touchdowns for the undefeated Buckeyes.

Dunn contributed early, but had the misfortune to arrive on the OSU roster about the time a guy named Carlos Hyde was finding his stride as a Buckeye running back. Hyde, who himself had to do a little waiting for his turn, was going to be hard to beat out, so hard that in his senior season he kept freshman Ezekiel Elliott on the bench, and that’s saying something. When Hyde left after two years in the starting role Elliott emerged, and that meant more waiting time for Dunn.

“It’s been a long journey,” Dunn reflected recently.

“Some people have a quick journey, some people have a long journey.”

Entire article: http://theozone.net/Ohio-State/Football/2016/News/Its-Now-or-Never-Time-For-Brionte-Dunn
 
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I always thought Rod Smith was just a break away from a fantastic year - never happened. there are only so many Hyde to Elliott, George to Pepe Pearson shifts out there...
unless you think Cassady to Clark to Bob White, Hubert Bobo to Ferguson to Snell - skip, skip, to Otis to Hayden to Archie to Johnson to Springs to Byars - skip, skip - Robert Smith, Jeff Cothran and Raymont Harris to MOC to Wells to Pittman to Hyde to Elliott.

Almost as good as the linebacker lineage - oh wait, that's Penn State.
 
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