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2 Once in a Generation Players at LSU
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:50 am
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:50 am
Ben Simmons & Leonard Fournette.
If Fournette doesn't win the Heisman or any type of championship (SEC or NC)
Then these two elite, once in a lifetime talents, matriculated at LSU and the school has the following to show for it:
0 SEC Championships
0 Heisman Trophies/ Naismith Awards
0 National Championships
0 CFB Playoff/ NCAA Tournament Appearances
That's not too good. Hopefully, the bball team goes on a run and sneaks in somehow. Otherwise, it's all on LF7 next year.
Just imagine, ESPN presents 30 for 30: What Could Have Been. How LSU had an NFL HOFer and an NBA HOFer on-campus at the same time, yet the school has nothing to show for it.
Sidenote: Ben Simmons current averages according to ESPN.COM are LINK
2015-16 Season
PPG
19.5
RPG
11.9
The irony
If Fournette doesn't win the Heisman or any type of championship (SEC or NC)
Then these two elite, once in a lifetime talents, matriculated at LSU and the school has the following to show for it:
0 SEC Championships
0 Heisman Trophies/ Naismith Awards
0 National Championships
0 CFB Playoff/ NCAA Tournament Appearances
That's not too good. Hopefully, the bball team goes on a run and sneaks in somehow. Otherwise, it's all on LF7 next year.
Just imagine, ESPN presents 30 for 30: What Could Have Been. How LSU had an NFL HOFer and an NBA HOFer on-campus at the same time, yet the school has nothing to show for it.
Sidenote: Ben Simmons current averages according to ESPN.COM are LINK
2015-16 Season
PPG
19.5
RPG
11.9
The irony
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:51 am to gatorguru
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Once in a Generation
its amazing how many of these I have seen
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:53 am to NYCAuburn
LeBron was in this generation
Adrian Peterson and D-Mac were in this generation
Itsofacto, Simmons and Fournette are not once in a generation players.
Adrian Peterson and D-Mac were in this generation
Itsofacto, Simmons and Fournette are not once in a generation players.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:53 am to NYCAuburn
Oh look another LSU thread
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:53 am to NYCAuburn
Hershel, Bo, even Cam were once in a generation players.
Not sure I would put Fournette there.
Not sure I would put Fournette there.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:53 am to gatorguru
Original thread.
Would read again.
Would read again.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:56 am to gatorguru
Thanks for your concern/obsession.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:58 am to SummerOfGeorge
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Adrian Peterson and D-Mac were in this generation
Itsofacto, Simmons and Fournette are not once in a generation players.
I'll give you Peterson, but it's time for people to start grasping the fact that Fournette is going to surpass McFadden in almost every meaningful stat, in a tougher SEC West.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:58 am to gatorguru
Fornette has his work cut out for him to be considered "once in a generation" outside of the LSU fan base. He hasn't even been the best RB in his conference the 2 years he has been in the SEC.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:59 am to RB10
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Fournette is going to surpass McFadden in almost every meaningful stat, in a tougher SEC West
I'm not even arguing D-Mac is better than Fournette (though I think he was), but Fournette is clearly not on some other plane talent wise from him, hence the "once in a generation" label dispute.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 9:00 am to gatorguru
Fun filled fact... In 3 seasons with emmitt smith UF has the same 0's on the scoreboard. Best part is you didn't have a single 8+ win season.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 9:00 am to RB10
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it's time for people to start grasping the fact that Fournette is going to surpass McFadden in almost every meaningful stat, in a tougher SEC West.
Probably but that doesn't really matter because they will if and when Fournette passes him.
I can also give you advantages that Fournette had over D-Mac
This post was edited on 2/24/16 at 9:02 am
Posted on 2/24/16 at 9:01 am to SummerOfGeorge
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I'm not even arguing D-Mac is better than Fournette (though I think he was), but Fournette is clearly not on some other plane talent wise from him, hence the "once in a generation" label dispute.
"Once in a generation talent" is one of the most overused sentiments in sports. Period.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 9:05 am to MoarKilometers
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Fun filled fact... In 3 seasons with emmitt smith UF has the same 0's on the scoreboard. Best part is you didn't have a single 8+ win season.
that's fine. Emmitt wasn't even the first RB taken in the 1990 draft. You can't compare Emmitt's HS and college career to the hype and production LF7 had in HS and now college. LF7 will be the first running back taken in 2017
Posted on 2/24/16 at 9:08 am to Roses of Crimson
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Hershel, Bo, even Cam were once in a generation players. Not sure I would put Fournette there.
So if Fournette goes for 2000 again and hell lets say he breaks Walkers record, you would put him there? I would agree as of today I would not say he is a once in a generation player, but he is awfully close imo.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 9:10 am to Nissanmaxima
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So if Fournette goes for 2000 again and hell lets say he breaks Walkers record, you would put him there?
As a ONCE IN A GENERATION player?
No, I would not look at him as the defining player of my generation at running back. Not at all.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 9:13 am to SummerOfGeorge
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No, I would not look at him as the defining player of my generation at running back. Not at all
Why not? Bo and Herschel were 3 years apart, yet you list both of them as generational talents.
Fournette will be 8 years removed from McFadden and Peterson.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 9:14 am to RB10
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"Once in a generation talent" is one of the most overused sentiments in sports. Period.
It is...I give you that...but with the way humans have reproduces...we have shortened the generational gap so to speak. A generation used to be 30 years (from a standpoint of age difference between parent and child)....
once in a generation would be more frequent than once in lifetime...correct?
I think that's where you have to start the debate is how you define that term.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 9:15 am to RB10
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Why not? Bo and Herschel were 3 years apart, yet you list both of them as generational talents.
Fournette will be 8 years removed from McFadden and Peterson.
I mean, how are we defining generations here? Also, I didn't list anybody as generational.
Besides, I think Todd Gurley is just as elite a running back talent as Fournette is, and under any metric he would be in the same generation.
This post was edited on 2/24/16 at 9:16 am
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