Comments on: ESPNU ranks the top 10 college running backs of all time. http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/06/26/espnu-ranks-the-top-10-college-running-backs-of-all-time/ Losers With Socks: SEC Speed Sat, 19 May 2012 18:56:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ryan Potter http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/06/26/espnu-ranks-the-top-10-college-running-backs-of-all-time/#comment-91955 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:36:08 +0000 http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/06/26/espnu-ranks-the-top-10-college-running-backs-of-all-time/#comment-91955 if you want a reason why most of the great athletes are black then my reason would be because most of the black youth look to sports as their only way to succeed in life. athletes are their heroes and that is what they want to be one day too. it is part of the culture black kids are brought up in. most black families are also raised by single mothers and because of that the kids dont always have a reason to stay in school. while white families mostly do have dads so the kids stay in school more often and get other jobs by going to school. lets say 1 million black kids want to be pro football players and only 1% of them make it, well that is 10,000 black pro football players. there are just more black kids who work hard at sports than white kids.

]]> By: Ryan Potter http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/06/26/espnu-ranks-the-top-10-college-running-backs-of-all-time/#comment-91953 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:19:33 +0000 http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/06/26/espnu-ranks-the-top-10-college-running-backs-of-all-time/#comment-91953 hey jonkoncak, you seem to think that there is a difference between white, black, and other “races” and that black people are more athletic than white people. actually there is zero difference besides the amount of pigmentation in the skin and amount of fat in certain parts of the face (eye lids, nose, lips). there is really only one race, the human race. there is a DNA difference between dogs and wolves but not white and black people. that is why our “races” can mate successfully unlike some animals with multiple species groups. we humans have one species, homo sapien.

]]> By: jonkoncak http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/06/26/espnu-ranks-the-top-10-college-running-backs-of-all-time/#comment-32028 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:10:05 +0000 http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/06/26/espnu-ranks-the-top-10-college-running-backs-of-all-time/#comment-32028 Oh, I know that. I’m not pissed at the thought someone says Bo over Herschel. It’s apples and apples really. Bo could’ve stuck to track and field, but had to chose a path and he could sprint his ass off for $10,000 on the track or $1,000,000 on the grid iron and diamond. Easy choice.

To me, Bo and Herschel were very similar, with Herschel getting the edge having the bigger body earlier in college.

]]> By: Taco Bell Soft Tacos http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/06/26/espnu-ranks-the-top-10-college-running-backs-of-all-time/#comment-32020 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:35:20 +0000 http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/06/26/espnu-ranks-the-top-10-college-running-backs-of-all-time/#comment-32020 Jon, the bobsled comment was a joke. I was just wondering if anyone still remembered Walker as an alternate for the Olympic Bobsled team or not.

]]> By: jonkoncak http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/06/26/espnu-ranks-the-top-10-college-running-backs-of-all-time/#comment-32013 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:48:05 +0000 http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/06/26/espnu-ranks-the-top-10-college-running-backs-of-all-time/#comment-32013 Corn Nation, you bring up an interesting scenario; guts vs. talent. Yes, Red Grange would have the guts to take on Takeo Spikes head-on with a leather helmet. Then he wouldn’t do it ever again. You have made a dangerous, blanket statement about all of today’s players that can’t be backed up with facts. Players back in the 1940′s were, on average, slower and weaker than players since the 1980′s and to say that today’s players are gutless next to their 1940′s counterparts is personal opinion.

Another huge thing is that those white guys in leather helmets (hey, a great name for my new band) didn’t let the black guys play. It was a bunch of slow white guys against a bunch of slow white guys. Oh, what a show of “guts”. It would be about as entertaining as +40 year old men’s church basketball league. Look, us white guys can be fast and all, but let’s be honest, how many black guys were allowed to play major college football in the 1920′s, 30′s, 40′s, and 50′s? Very few nationwide and zero down here in the south. That is until 1970 when Southern Cal, with several black players, came in a pimped slapped Bear Bryant’s Arian tide 42-17 virtually ending athletic segregation in southern college football. By 1973 1/3rd of Alabama’s starters were black. I’m Dixie to the day I die, but, damn, my forefathers had some really jacked up opinions on race relations.

Easy Nebraskans, the rest of the nation can’t beat their perceived great humanitarian chests either as it wasn’t until the 1960′s that several black athletes were actually on rosters. Why does that matter? Simple, the best athletes weren’t out there until the 1970′s. So if that’s the case, how can anyone that played in the 1940′s be in the top 10 of any category that includes athletes from the modern era (post 1960′s)?

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