This begs the question, if he's good enough to start on an SEC team, why is he not starting at USC west?
Marshawn Lloyd
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This begs the question, if he's good enough to start on an SEC team, why is he not starting at USC west?
Lloyd no longer wanted to be a Gamecock, so I no longer have interest in his career.
9 carries, 42 yards.
1 reception, 12 yards.
Most carries on the team, but second in yards. Didn't see any scores.
No. But I was saying I thought he could have been if he could stay healthy. He’s already got durability concerns. I just think if he were able to prove he could stay healthy in a feature back role it would have benefited him.
That Branch Kid will still a lot of the attention.
Lloyd was yet another anomaly of "old" Carolina when you finally land a five star RB that then drops to a 4 Star back and then he has an ACL tear before his first carry. The kid is good but the injury will likely limit his trajectory, to some extent. Maybe the NIL was too attractive to turn down with him knowing the same.
Lloyd was yet another anomaly of "old" Carolina when you finally land a five star RB that then drops to a 4 Star back and then he has an ACL tear before his first carry. The kid is good but the injury will likely limit his trajectory, to some extent. Maybe the NIL was too attractive to turn down with him knowing the same.
Never said he was. But given our thin RB room, we may miss the 750 yards he gave us last year.
He did not gain 750 yards last year. He rushed for about 750 yards in his career. His net was 573 yards last year. He gained 621 last year total rushing.
While I would like to have him on the team, if we can’t replace that we suck.
And I was a Lloyd fan. Wish he could have stayed healthy to reach his potential. Maybe now he can.
Don’t sleep on DK. He’s averaging 5.1 ypc in his career here. It’s not like we’re putting a TE that’s never taken a handoff back there or something…
750 rushing and receiving last year.
Hardly irreplaceable, but with a thin RB room, it would have been nice to have that production return.
Agree he's got potential. But we're also talking about his third position, right?
That strikes me as us needing bodies back there.
Yes absolutely, but DK has taken on everything thrown at him, so he was a great candidate with all the tools, just needed to rework his body a little. I think it will turn out to be a good experiment. I'll bet you he can get us more than 750 run/catch yards, just his "want to" will get that!
No, what's interesting is how narrow minded you appear here, and how shallow your thinking is. First, it's not about transferring. It's about how he went about it. He was subversive, meeting with Beamer saying all was good, and then a few days later off he goes. It's about pushing Gamecock fans to buy his crap, as they believe he will represent us, and then DD'ing to SoCal. It's about being a cancer on this team coming down the stretch, faking an injury because he didn't like how they were relying on Rattler instead of him. He was a selfish, ME FIRST, type of player who didn't care about this team at all. That's why people are pissed at him, not just because he transferred. So, it's not just some posters trying to tell a kid how to run his life. It's about loyalty, your word actually meaning something and being a person of character and ethics. And we have every right to expect that of anybody representing our university. I find it "interesting" how some posters can't understand that...
And I laugh every time a BETA allows people to just S*!T all over him, and still kisses their a$$. Bravo betaboy!
EXXXXXXXXXXXACTLY!!!! And that was ONLY part of it. Too many posters make holier-than-thou statements with little to no real information, and don't realize how ridiculous they sound. Good post.
I guess you don't understand, or maybe you are just ignorant to the stats. But there are tens of thousands of NFL talented players who NEVER got a shot at the NFL. Happens every single year, for decades and decades. Maybe research the percentages.
No it doesn't. Speaking of a flawed line of thought... That is just shallow thinking. What it could say is many things, but the system, conference and type of ball being played is a bigger part of it. Different conferences play different version of football. It's why a team like OSU can breeze through the BIG for years and years, and get pummeled when playing an SEC team most of those years. The SEC puts more players into the NFL than any other league. That's their point. And it's an empirical fact. So you can wonder and twist your way around it any way you want, but in the end, the only true measure is championships. When's the last time SoCal did that?
Yep. This probably should have been the first move. He's also seen a lot of football from 3 different positions, and much older and mature than most of the guys he's going to be playing against. He's just a dude that does whatever he's asked, without complaint....and generally does them well. I think he's primed for a big season.
Never said the SEC didn't put more players in the NFL. And yes, the SEC has more talent and championships than any other conference.
Just saying that if a guy leaves a more talented TEAM for a lesser, you would expect him to step up the depth chart, not down.
True, but hope is not a plan. I'm more than surprised at our inability to bring in some real names by year 3.
Well, it looks like we have the answer to why Lloyd left. He saw this OL coming, and wanted no part of sacrificing his career over it.
We also got a preliminary answer to the DK at running back question. It appears he really is just a warm body back there.
We also got a preliminary answer to the DK at running back question. It appears he really is just a warm body back there.
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Personally, I don't think it matters which team or conference one plays for. Play the game you love at the school you love. That said, there really is no comparison between Southern Cal's football tradition and ours.
Exactly! With their legacy, Southern Cal doesn't need to ride on the coat-tails of their conference.
I am not sorry he left. To me, he WAY under performed to his billing etc. He wouldn't make the top 10 in RB's that have played for South Carolina, imho.