Have you heard of this guy?

Shame on you if you haven't. He'll be playing somewhere, I promise you, on Sundays in the NFL.
He's Chadron State's Danny Woodhead, a kid from North Platte, Nebraska who is now the most prolific running back in all of college football. That's correct, THE ALL-TIME, ALL-DIVISION NCAA rushing leader. He broke R.J. Bowers' career record last month and continues to drive defenses wild in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The Eagles are undefeated, ranked 3rd in the nation, and seeking to go deeper in the playoffs this year. You may remember a wide receiver in the NFL named Don Beebe who also played at Chadron State. He starred for the Buffalo Bills and Green Bay Packers.
Woodhead ran for 2,756 yards last year on his way to winning the Harlon Hill Trophy as the outstanding Division II player (thier Heisman). He also owns 7 state high school career rushing records. Records that won't be touched in many, many years, if ever.
The Eagles defeated our local team, the Nebraska-Kearney Antelopes (Lopers) 28-16 tonight before a standing-room only crowd of over 8-thousand people here in Kearney. There was national television crews carrying the game live for CSTV (college sports television), Altitude network, and NETV (nebraska public television). The atmosphere was as energized as I've EVER witnessed for a game. I've been to some huge Cornhusker games in the past and tonight was right there for intensity, electricity, and rowdiness.

[RooMorgans]

He's boiled!



Roo

[childslovegame]

OU Fan,

He ain't playing against anybody!

Smitty

[RooMorgans]

Originally Posted by childslovegame

OU Fan,

He ain't playing against anybody!

Smitty

That argument doesn't hold, though. Because the kid, in a way, isn't playing with anybody, either.

If you say that he's not playing against any valid competition, because the level of football is too low - you must then accept that his own team is of the same level. It'd be like putting two teams on the field with untweaked bases. You can't then say Team A is playing weaker competition when it plays Team B - because they are both at the same level.

Fundamentally, there's no difference between someone at Florida running rampant over someone from Georgia as there is someone from Kentucky Wesleyan running rampant over someone from Union College. Would the Wesleyan kid be able to play at Florida? Probably not. But that's not the issue.

What the kid above is doing is dominating his level at competition while playing for a team at that level, running behind linemen at that level, and playing for a coach who probably can only coach at that level and so on.

It's a 100-1 longshot that he'll ever play on Sunday, but this is just the type of kid that would get a look, because of what he's done against competition that at least on paper should be simliar to his own ability.

Ed

[Coach K-LO]

good post ED.... nice comparison........

[Reginald Rutledge]

Ed,

That's a great argument. You can take that argument even further by adding that a lot of great college players who may dominate the SEC, Big Ten, PAC 10, etc., will play on Sunday.

Yeah, when they get to play on Sunday such as a David Carr, Tony Mandarich, Rod Hill (Cowboys '80), you would have done better getting a kid like the one shown above at a lot less price and probably a more humble attitude.

I just watched some prima dona high school players who throw tantrums when a coach argue at them for a downfield clip whereas I have seen other kids, who are less athletic< will give their all if they had the chance to play-ala "Rudy" Ruttigger from Notre Dame.

Reg