Plenty to critique about Bill this year and over his career, but there seems to be an implication that Robinson = Randle. I really think that if this was the case it would've shown up on the field by now. Generally if talented players are here all 4 years they make there way onto the field. I remember that after his SO year his HS coach was making excuses for Robinson that he didn't get the reps in practice because other guys would jump in ahead of him, which IMO is ridiculous. If the kid could play he would be playing.
Nobody on this board knows what happened early in his career, me especially. This kid had true freshman talent though. If he were handled differently and asserted into the fold from the beginning, maybe Robinson would have handled things differently.
FAN is correct as usual, there are very few guys with real talent that never got a chance. Bryce had a few opportunities and I believe he would of had more had he stayed and the Joe Hall and Daniel Davis types that got their shots.
That said, it seems like Snyder 2.0 has not rotated backs nearly as much as I remember him doing the first time around. Obviously having DT in 09 and 10 makes it seem like a no brainer (William Powell's 10.9 ypc tho). Now we have his commitment to Hubert, who is not a gifted as DT or DS but seems to be getting the a similar percentage of carries, even though we have a some guys on the bench that could at least be a good change of pace.
I think its fair that a change of pace back would be nice, especially some one with more size to go along with Hubert. I heard good things about Leverett in the spring, so I thought maybe he'd be the guy, but that doesn't seem to be the case. As is, our back up is smaller than our already small feature back.
To be fair, I think the staff had a guy each year since they've came back, but they didn't always work out completely. Powell got hurt while Thomas was here and Pease reportedly had some concussion issues his first year, and never got fully implemented.
