• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

vBook: Most Rushing Yards for OSU in 2005

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
Oh8ch

Oh8ch

Cognoscente of Omphaloskepsis
Staff member
I will try to roll these out once a week or so, but here is the first.

Who will have the most yards rushing for OSU this season (not including the bowl game)?

Keep in mind that this bet doesn't get settled til November and anything you wager will tie up your vCash til then.
 
strohs said:
Sweet.
I think, worst case is I come out even, best case I come out 200v up.
Click to expand...
I split my bet on the odds. 500 on Pittman at 2:1, 250 on Haw at 4:1. 95% chance I wind up +250.

Although there's an outside chance that if our running game is as attrocious as it was last season, Ginn could wind up the leading rusher with only 400 yards.
 
Upvote 0
In a spread offense, with a mobile QB, and a trio of dangerous speed receivers, there should be a whole lot of daylight for a RB to run to. That's a scenario custom-made for an agile, quick-twitch RB -- and one that doesn't require him to take a terrible Eddie-George-style pounding.

If he's half as gifted as the gurus claim he is, Maurice Wells should have a field day most every Saturday this Fall.
 
Upvote 0
Pittman has the most game experience. Is there any doubt he will get the start against Miami and UT?

He will at least have two games to prove himself. If he has two 100+ games he is the starter for the year. I'm NOT saying Haw amd Wells won't get their touches, it's just Pittman has a distinctive upperhand.
 
Upvote 0
I went with haw because I fell he has the chance to be a special back...I think Pittman can be good though, so it was a tough decision, but I went with the gut feel...I hope they both have 1000 yards :biggrin:
 
Upvote 0
OSU5NC said:
Pittman is risky though. He's not the most durable back, and there could be a chance of injury. I really don't know which way to go on this, but I probably won't bet until 2 or 3 days before the bet closes.
Click to expand...

I dont think you can say he is injury prone after playing sparsely his freshman year of college.
I personally dont know much about his H.S. career though...
 
Upvote 0
There was a reason he played sparsely. There was the one off the field incident, but he also hurt himself against Cinci, and got dinged up later in the year (wear and tear) as well. I really don't know who to pick here, seems like it's dead even between Haw, Pittman, and Wells.
 
Upvote 0
Some people are bad at predicting the future, it looks like. :tongue2:

Just bringing up another old vBet to see where we are. The money on Pittman looks safe -- he's at 563. Troy Smith is second, with somewhere around 298. Gonzales has more than Ginn (net), with 8. Ginn has 1 net yard.

Haw has less than 10, I think, and Wells is around 50-60.
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top