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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 941535" data-attributes="member: 7261">I won't go back to posts, but there are people here that think Badger Running backs are always over-rated due to strong offensive lines.  While a few high end UW running backs have failed (Monty Ball) or burned out (Dayne) there have been a lot of successful ones too.  Ball failed due to his off the field stuff, Dayne just burned out.  This particular poster was gloating because he predicted that Jonathan Taylor would fail due to Badger OL making him look good.  Not sure when, but maybe 2-4 games into Taylor's rookie season, that had gotten off to a slow start, said Poster came back to "gloat" saying he knew all along that Taylor was over-rated.Anyway, young running backs gravitate to Wisconsin and they have another one, a 17 year old named Braelon Allen that has already turned a lot of heads.  If you saw this years OL, you wouldn't attest his year to them.  If he stays healthy, look out.In really what amounted to about 10 games:<table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>186 rushes</td><td>1,268  yards</td><td>6.8 yds/carry</td><td>12 TD's</td></tr></table></blockquote>

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