in all honesty I have no clue who is gonna be the better prospect. I think lamar miller is explosive much like trich. I think being a redshirt sophmore, miller obviously has to improve from blitz pickup and blocking. I don't suspect that you think that many sophmores are fully developed in that aspect of their game anyway. I think if miller had stayed another year he would have put up similar numbers to what trent did this year. Trent obviously had more td's but 3 against both kent state, and north texas and 4 against ole miss is half his production from a td standpoint, since we pointed out that mcnutts production came against ****ty teams. He had roughly 60 more carries than lamar and I think if you ante up 60 more carries to lamar you have a very similar output statistically speaking. Factor in the major difference in the stable alabama program and the anything but stable miami program I think the only difference we are talking about is another year of technique and metal reps in the blocking game. Maybe a little better body of work as a pass catcher out of the backfield wouldn't hurt either. I believe lamar did cough it up twice against twice against FSU, and jacory threw a pic for three turnovers. I can't roast a guy for fumbling twice... I dont think it's a habit and I can point to adrian peterson as a fumble artist who seems to be doing okay. james also has two rush tds for a yard a piece. SO I'm not sure what we are arguing about. Besides, this was a mcnutt thread and now we aren't talking about mcnutt.
It's just my preference of miller over trent. Trent will probably do better right away, but I'm not sure he has the better career. I've been wrong more than I've been right though, that's why I run a motorgrader and don't scout for an nfl team!
You're certainly entitled to have any opinion you like. I'm not "arguing" with you, I asked you a question. I figured you might have something substantial to back up your assessment. That's typically what we try to do here in the draft forum regarding prospects. You can prefer a one-legged rodeo clown over Trent Richardson as far as I'm concerned.
However, I think it may be helpful to you if you understand that Trent Richardson and Marvin McNutt are two completely different caliber of football players and athletes. You're correlation to their production makes little sense to me. It's almost as if you've never watched Trent Richardson play. It wasn't really my intent to even make Trent Richardson and Lamar Miller a 2-man battle for the top RB prospect, that's what you're trying to do. I don't think Miller is as good as Doug Martin or David Wilson either. If you'd like to make a comparison or have a debate there, it's might actually be one worth having.
Furthermore, Trent Richardson isn't a better back because of his rushing yardage or TD's. It's a lot more to it than that. Hell, Bobby Rainey has more rushing yards than Richardson but that doesn't mean he's a better prospect.
Lastly, I don't think you have a clue what you're talking about in regards to Kent St. Other than LSU, Kent St. was the best run defense Bama played all season. Kent St. has a better scoring defense than 7 teams in the ACC, and had the 33rd ranked run defense in the entire country....which is also better than all ACC teams except for 3. Kent St. was 21st in TOTAL defense, which is better than every team in the ACC except for 2. Kent St. was 21st in 1st downs allowed... also better than every team in the ACC except for 3.
Kent St. had a 335 pound, run stuffing immovable rock by the name of Ishmaa'ily Kitchen, who's one of the more underrated DT's in this draft... and he played lights out against Bama's offense in week 1.
They also have a sophomore DE by the name of Roosevelt Nix who's one of the best sophomore NFL defensive line prospects in the entire country. You'll be hearing about all the talking heads hyping him up soon enough. As in next year when he's draft eligible. Trent only played 2 quarters against Kent St. anyway (the 1st and 3rd quarters).