Ridiculous, huh? You mean like how many players are pulled off some special teams in order to "save" them for a more valuable role? There are countless examples.
I disagree with your statement that Miami's loss would be equal to Oregon's loss. Oregon would still have an explosive offense, albeit less so. Miami would simply not have any explosiveness on their offense at all.
Your last two sentences make no sense to me. His touches were limited because they were going to other players. Many of us think those touches within the actual offense will have more value to Miami. Therefore, like many have stated here, in order not to overuse him, I'd use him as a sprinkle on KOR and PR, but would focus his contribution more on our offense.
Name all these examples. Sammy Watkins returned kicks. Bush returned kicks. Ellington returned kicks until Watkins came around. Thomas returns kicks. Great players who can do those special things do them in college. Your assertion is more an NFL thing.
My last sentences make sense because you make it sound like he was being under utilized on a team that scored 34 offensive pts and put up over 400 yds. If the offense was on the field more, then he likely would've gotten the touches you wanted him to get while still being the primary kick returner.
Oregon's offense is better and more explosive because they've been doing it longer. Its practically second nature to them at this point. You won't convince me they have better overall talent at WR albeit Miami's is young. IF Fisch wants this uptempo shotgun spread to be the thing at Miami, its gonna take some time before it gets going fully. BTW look where all the explosive plays have come from for Oregon. Primarily from Thomas. He is where their offense will get its explosiveness from. Their tempo causes problem and the O-line does a great job and thats why they put up lots of points. But he is the juice for them. BTW making judgements after one game about who can be explosive in this offense is jumping the gun a bit.
For every Sammy Watkins, there's an Adrian Peterson, who was kept off of Kick Return in order to save his value. Look at Ladanian Tomlinson's college career. While he started to get KOR early on, as he became more important to his team, his KOR went all the way down to ZERO. I guess Nick Saban and Alabama had no idea what they were doing when they pulled Trent Richardson off of KOR. As for Reggie Bush, I think he was used correctly. He was an edge player and it was in his best interest to never be an every down back. Ellington was previously part of a two-back system. Your assertion is a generalized statement. Great players are used however they're most valuable to their team. My assertion, along with many posters on here, is that Duke's our ONLY explosive offensive player and therefore should be utilized mostly there.
Your previous statement makes no sense because you're saying that our ****ty defense kept our offense off of the field and limited their opportunities. In reality, it works the other way around. Our ****ty defense kept placing our offense ON the field.
Your last paragraph is simply confusing. According to you, Oregon's offense works better because they've been doing it longer, but then you cite equal talent at WR as support. What? How did you suddenly stick Oregon as a point of emphasis to this thread. Are you saying we're trying to be Oregon? Did you somehow understand anything I said as us trying to be Oregon?
The entire point of this thread is that, if we do not use the entire field, I believe we are going to struggle.
