20 Years - The Run

[PaladinFan]

20 years ago this week (December 18, 1999), arguably one of the most dominant IAA/FCS players in history made a play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02t-qgwhmm8

[Bisonator]

That was it? A 58 yard run and he didn't even score on it? Impressive.

[PaladinFan]

I've watched that play a hundred times, but I've never focused on YSU's #1.

#1 is a cornerback that clearly wants no part of Peterson. He's trying to let everyone else tackle him. Once Peterson fights through everyone else, the only guy left is #1, who despite not wanting to be involved, gets thrown off the field.

[PaladinFan]

That was it? A 58 yard run and he didn't even score on it? Impressive.

Do they teach a troll class at NDSU?

Actually, GSU was backed up with holding on the next play, and Peterson stormed into the end zone from 22 yards out. So, what, 80 yards on two carries?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYefzbdgbOw

[Bisonator]

Do they teach a troll class at NDSU?

Actually, GSU was backed up with holding on the next play, and Peterson stormed into the end zone from 22 yards out. So, what, 80 yards on two carries?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYefzbdgbOw
Guess I just don't see what's so impressive about that play that it's brought up 20 years later? Must of been all the missed tackles by the Penguins. xlolx

[ST_Lawson]

Do they teach a troll class at NDSU?

Actually, GSU was backed up with holding on the next play, and Peterson stormed into the end zone from 22 yards out. So, what, 80 yards on two carries?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYefzbdgbOw

I mean, NDSU's freshman RB Jalen Bussey played 1 quarter of 1 game this season. First time he ever touched the ball in college was a 65-yard TD run. Second time he ever touched the ball in college was a 45-yard TD run, so that's 110 yards and 2 TDs on 2 carries. Finished the game with 123 yards on 6 carries with those 2 TDs, and that was all in 1 quarter...and he's a true freshman redshirting this year.

Don't get me wrong, Peterson was an absolute beast. I remember, we played them in playoffs the year before, but I don't see much in that run that sets it apart from a number of other really great runs that I've seen...usually a couple every year.

[Chalupa Batman]

I mean, NDSU's freshman RB Jalen Bussey played 1 quarter of 1 game this season. First time he ever touched the ball in college was a 65-yard TD run. Second time he ever touched the ball in college was a 45-yard TD run, so that's 110 yards and 2 TDs on 2 carries. Finished the game with 123 yards on 6 carries with those 2 TDs, and that was all in 1 quarter...and he's a true freshman redshirting this year.

Don't get me wrong, Peterson was an absolute beast. I remember, we played them in playoffs the year before, but I don't see much in that run that sets it apart from a number of other really great runs that I've seen...usually a couple every year.

Some people think it’s up there with the Tommie Frazier run against Florida. It’s a fine run, but not on close to that level.


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[POD Knows]

It never gets old watching him shed #1

[Redbird 4th & short]

MOnt St mixing things up nicely

[PaladinFan]

I mean, NDSU's freshman RB Jalen Bussey played 1 quarter of 1 game this season. First time he ever touched the ball in college was a 65-yard TD run. Second time he ever touched the ball in college was a 45-yard TD run, so that's 110 yards and 2 TDs on 2 carries. Finished the game with 123 yards on 6 carries with those 2 TDs, and that was all in 1 quarter...and he's a true freshman redshirting this year.

Don't get me wrong, Peterson was an absolute beast. I remember, we played them in playoffs the year before, but I don't see much in that run that sets it apart from a number of other really great runs that I've seen...usually a couple every year.

The distance isn't relevant. That play is designed to get 3 or 4 yards.

There is no way you watch a number of runs every year of nearly sixty yards with half a dozen broken tackles and throwing D1 defensive players into the sideline.

The only run I've seen that falls in with AP's dash is probably Marshawn Lynch's "beast mode" run nearly 10 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSBJxtEed1s

You can tell on the 22 yard run that he's completely gassed and defenders are still bouncing off him.

[ST_Lawson]

There is no way you watch a number of runs every year of nearly sixty yards with half a dozen broken tackles and throwing D1 defensive players into the sideline.

It's not a common thing, but 1-2 a year, absolutely.

[Redbird 4th & short]

Impressive run, especially with him still easily shedding blockers down field .. but also agree in this day and age with better conditioning, this has become much mroe common. I see Robinson do similar stuff downfield with tacklers, but mmore often than not, he has broken away if gets that far down field. Coprich was similarly good at breaking tackles, but he was just more slippery than Robinson and could absorb hits and recover immediately ... but at 205 lbs, Coprich was 20 lbs lighter, so a little faster and quicker. 225 lb Robinson is more like Walter Payton, when he knows he will be hit, he delivers the hit first.

[cx500d]

20 years ago this week (December 18, 1999), arguably one of the most dominant IAA/FCS players in history made a play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02t-qgwhmm8
What a pussy...no desire to get into the end zone

[PaladinFan]

Impressive run, especially with him still easily shedding blockers down field .. but also agree in this day and age with better conditioning, this has become much mroe common. I see Robinson do similar stuff downfield with tacklers, but mmore often than not, he has broken away if gets that far down field. Coprich was similarly good at breaking tackles, but he was just more slippery than Robinson and could absorb hits and recover immediately ... but at 205 lbs, Coprich was 20 lbs lighter, so a little faster and quicker. 225 lb Robinson is more like Walter Payton, when he knows he will be hit, he delivers the hit first.

Marshaun Coprich is arguably the one of MVFC's greatest running backs.

Coprich, in more games, rushed for 4,000 fewer yards than Peterson. Peterson, in addition, was doing that during a time when the Southern Conference was unequivocally the top league in the country. He's not making that run against Kumquat State - that was Jim Tressel's 12-1 Youngstown State team in the national title game.

There's no running back in FCS/IAA football in the last 20 years anywhere in the conversation with Adrian Peterson. Coprich actually won the Sporting News award that is named for Adrian Peterson.

[cx500d]

Marshaun Coprich is arguably the one of MVFC's greatest running backs.

Coprich, in more games, rushed for 4,000 fewer yards than Peterson. Peterson, in addition, was doing that during a time when the Southern Conference was unequivocally the top league in the country. He's not making that run against Kumquat State - that was Jim Tressel's 12-1 Youngstown State team in the national title game.

There's no running back in FCS/IAA football in the last 20 years anywhere in the conversation with Adrian Peterson. Coprich actually won the Sporting News award that is named for Adrian Peterson.
That’s an unfair comparison. Peterson had the advantage of being in a system that had a triple option that no one has ever seen before, plus he had @#SouthernSpeed​tm

[FUBeAR]

It's not a common thing, but 1-2 a year, absolutely.
https://pics.me.me/thumb_video-or-it-didnt-happen-memegenerator-ne-video-or-it-didnt-53391849.png

[ElCid]

https://pics.me.me/thumb_video-or-it-didnt-happen-memegenerator-ne-video-or-it-didnt-53391849.png

Well, back in 16, down by 10 with about 5:30 to go in game against Samford, and our undefeated SOCON record in jeopardy, Cam Jackson had what you could view as an outstanding run of 63 yards. I think 6 or 7 guys touched him. More of a finesse run than a power run, but still sweet. Oh, and we obviously came back and won.

Oh yeah, here is the video. It at about 1:24 of this highlight video.

https://youtu.be/iFrKnzh0huU

[BisonFan02]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Aqv8tBLqg

1990 Natty in the D2 days....NDSU ran the veer. Not as impressive obviously. haha

People remember that AP run because he tossed a guy that wanted no part of tackling him. As far as carrying defenders, I can rattle off a list of Bison RBs that have highlights that include many instances of carrying demoralized defenders. xlolx The dude was a straight up freak over his career....but I wouldn't single it out in a single highlight by calling it "The Run"....get the same **** with Bison fans that remember former QB Bentrim with "The Pitch"

Tyler Roehl....Bruce Anderson...even guys like Cofield and Brooks...

How about Carson Wentz running over a YSU defender into the endzone? :D

[cx500d]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Aqv8tBLqg

1990 Natty in the D2 days....NDSU ran the veer. Not as impressive obviously. haha

People remember that AP run because he tossed a guy that wanted no part of tackling him. As far as carrying defenders, I can rattle off a list of Bison RBs that have highlights that include many instances of carrying demoralized defenders. xlolx The dude was a straight up freak over his career....but I wouldn't single it out in a single highlight by calling it "The Run"....get the same **** with Bison fans that remember former QB Bentrim with "The Pitch"

Tyler Roehl....Bruce Anderson...even guys like Cofield and Brooks...

How about Carson Wentz running over a YSU defender into the endzone? :D

Someone break out “the pitch”


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[BisonFan02]

Someone break out “the pitch”


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Recorded with a Nokia phone from the same time. :D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGz05dUz5Tc

[cx500d]

Recorded with a Nokia phone from the same time. :D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGz05dUz5Tc

O c’mon, the only bricks in those day were Motorola’s


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[BisonFan02]

Last post in my mini-hijack of this thread. xlolx I vaguely remember these Georgia Southern teams from the late 90s....the Bison were very much still D2 but getting closer to making the jump. I graduated HS in 2002 and in my HS years, this was OUR RB.....Bison fans will remember this fella.

https://www.bisonillustrated.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Lamar_Gordon_NDSU_Bison.jpg

[cx500d]

Last post in my mini-hijack of this thread. xlolx I vaguely remember these Georgia Southern teams from the late 90s....the Bison were very much still D2 but getting closer to making the jump. I graduated HS in 2002 and in my HS years, this was OUR RB.....Bison fans will remember this fella.

https://www.bisonillustrated.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Lamar_Gordon_NDSU_Bison.jpg

We shoulda went fbs in 1990


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[JSUSoutherner]

How about Carson Wentz running over a YSU defender into the endzone? :D
I feel like the difference between AP and Wentz is while Wentz can dive over an FCS linebacker AP continued on and did this in the NFL...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpNhsDB1jYQ&feature=youtu.be

Carson Wentz, however, is a Faberge egg that has yet to last a whole NFL season.

[marenlee]

I feel like the difference between AP and Wentz is while Wentz can dive over an FCS linebacker AP continued on and did this in the NFL...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpNhsDB1jYQ&feature=youtu.be

Carson Wentz, however, is a Faberge egg that has yet to last a whole NFL season.

Uhhhhh, what?


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[JSUSoutherner]

Uhhhhh, what?


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Wentz is the new Romo.

[marenlee]

My point was wrong Adrian Peterson. GSU Peterson had a short NFL career.


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[BisonFan02]

I feel like the difference between AP and Wentz is while Wentz can dive over an FCS linebacker AP continued on and did this in the NFL...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpNhsDB1jYQ&feature=youtu.be

Carson Wentz, however, is a Faberge egg that has yet to last a whole NFL season.

Wentz played his entire rookie year and is looking like he'll finish this year too.....go take a lap saxy.

Also...that is the wrong AP. xlolx

[cx500d]

My point was wrong Adrian Peterson. GSU Peterson had a short NFL career.


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I was wondering what the point of the video of the Adrian petersen that went to Oklahoma was.


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[JSUSoutherner]

I was wondering what the point of the video of the Adrian petersen that went to Oklahoma was.


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Oh.

I am certainly very dumb.

Disregard my previous posts in this thread.

*Runs*

[caribbeanhen]

Guess I just don't see what's so impressive about that play that it's brought up 20 years later? Must of been all the missed tackles by the Penguins. xlolx

I always thought you were smart

[POD Knows]

I feel like the difference between AP and Wentz is while Wentz can dive over an FCS linebacker AP continued on and did this in the NFL...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpNhsDB1jYQ&feature=youtu.be

Carson Wentz, however, is a Faberge egg that has yet to last a whole NFL season.Yea, we talking about the same AP?

[POD Knows]

Oh.

I am certainly very dumb.

Disregard my previous posts in this thread.

*Runs*
Yea, you didn't have a lot of brain cells when you were active on this board and your recent hiatus hasn't improved your position. Take a pill, get laid or something and come back here when you have a clue.

[Mocs123]

Adrian Peterson was the most dominate collegiate football player I have ever seen play.

I know that many NDSU fans think that if you don't play for NDSU then you're inferiror, but Petterson was a man among boys. A lot GSU fans (and later App fans) were just as cocky and arrogant as a lot (not all) of NDSU's are today, and I hated them, so I certainly don't want to admit that anything GSU was good, but Adrian Peterson was one HECK of a football player.

[Mocs123]

Oh.

I am certainly very dumb.

Disregard my previous posts in this thread.


*Runs*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Peterson_(American_football,_born_1979)

[JSUSoutherner]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Peterson_(American_football,_born_1979)

Noted.

[uni88]

Adrian Peterson was the most dominate collegiate football player I have ever seen play.

I know that many NDSU fans think that if you don't play for NDSU then you're inferiror, but Petterson was a man among boys. A lot GSU fans (and later App fans) were just as cocky and arrogant as a lot (not all) of NDSU's are today, and I hated them, so I certainly don't want to admit that anything GSU was good, but Adrian Peterson was one HECK of a football player.

NDSU Fans:
Anything you can do, we can do better.
We can do anything better than you.

Other FCS Fans: No you can't.

NDSU Fans: Yes, we can.

Other FCS Fans: No, you can't.

NDSU Fans: Yes, we can.

Other FCS Fans: No, you can't.

NDSU Fans: Yes, we can, Yes, we can!

[ST_Lawson]

People remember that AP run because he tossed a guy that wanted no part of tackling him.

Hell, if we're looking at things like that, I remember Mike Scifres (punter) having to tuck the ball and run with it one time...pretty much did the exact thing AP did with the guy trying to stop him. Slowed up for a second, then just shoved the guy down right out of bounds. I think Scifres only got ~20 yards and a first down on that though.

Coprich, Stecker, Zenner, etc.
I even remember seeing WIU's Nikko Watson reel off a similar run. He didn't do much in the way of setting records, but the dude was huge for a RB (he was 6'0" and every bit of his listed 250lbs) and was very difficult to take down. He'd have 4-5 guys on him at the same time and still the pile would be creeping forward.

[Bisonator]

I always thought you were smart
I always knew you weren't

[caribbeanhen]

I always knew you weren't

because I thought you were?

[PaladinFan]

Hell, if we're looking at things like that, I remember Mike Scifres (punter) having to tuck the ball and run with it one time...pretty much did the exact thing AP did with the guy trying to stop him. Slowed up for a second, then just shoved the guy down right out of bounds. I think Scifres only got ~20 yards and a first down on that though.

Coprich, Stecker, Zenner, etc.
I even remember seeing WIU's Nikko Watson reel off a similar run. He didn't do much in the way of setting records, but the dude was huge for a RB (he was 6'0" and every bit of his listed 250lbs) and was very difficult to take down. He'd have 4-5 guys on him at the same time and still the pile would be creeping forward.

If you can find video of a 50+ yard run with a runner breaking half a dozen tackles and throwing a D1 player into the sidelines, post it.

[AmsterBison]

Love that run.

[Sycamore62]

its a nice run. breaks two weak arm tackles then 2 guys knock themselves off of him , he stiff arms a terrible attempt off of him, a guy has a nice downfield block and a guy pushes him out of bounds.

would have been really impressive just to outrun guys and score untouched.

[PaladinFan]

its a nice run. breaks two weak arm tackles then 2 guys knock themselves off of him , he stiff arms a terrible attempt off of him, a guy has a nice downfield block and a guy pushes him out of bounds.

would have been really impressive just to outrun guys and score untouched.

It is really impressive. Full stop. Arguably the greatest running back in FCS history just shredding one of the country's top defenses like they were a high school team.

The guy that eventually gets him down - #45 - still gets run over. He just manages to grab Peterson's ankle as he goes down. Absent that, Peterson scores.

Peterson isn't trying to outrun anyone after about the first 20 yards. He initiates all of the contact the last half of that run.

[Grizalltheway]

That was it? A 58 yard run and he didn't even score on it? Impressive.
I know. And he didn't even play for NDSU.

[Sycamore62]

It is really impressive. Full stop. Arguably the greatest running back in FCS history just shredding one of the country's top defenses like they were a high school team.

The guy that eventually gets him down - #45 - still gets run over. He just manages to grab Peterson's ankle as he goes down. Absent that, Peterson scores.

Peterson isn't trying to outrun anyone after about the first 20 yards. He initiates all of the contact the last half of that run.

What was more impressive wast that after the game they all went out to the parking lot and watching him walk across the retention pond.

[PaladinFan]

I know. And he didn't even play for NDSU.

I thought North Dakota State invented football, though.

[cx500d]

I thought North Dakota State invented football, though.
Well, modern football only. I think the ivies or somebody invented the touch/flag variety where they only needed leather helmets, more for style because the top hats wouldn't stay on.

[FUBeAR]

I thought North Dakota State invented football, though.
Blasphemer! The game of Football was gifted upon NDSU when Moses descended to Fargo, riding a bison & carrying the tablets upon which Coach Yahweh had inscribed the X’s & O’s for A-Gap Power and 9 other plays.

[POD Knows]

I thought North Dakota State invented football, though.Didn't invent, just perfected.

[ysubigred]

20 years ago this week (December 18, 1999), arguably one of the most dominant IAA/FCS players in history made a play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02t-qgwhmm8I remember this like it was yesterday I was setting about 6 rows up on that sideline and when he did that I turned to my friend that was with me and said we're screwed. The rumor in the tailgate lot was Peterson was out for the game because of an injury if he was injured I'd hate to see him at full strength? [emoji2962]

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[dewey]

What a run. In the title game. Breaking tackles, carrying defenders and throwing the last defender aside like a rag doll.

Dewey

[dewey]

Last post in my mini-hijack of this thread. xlolx I vaguely remember these Georgia Southern teams from the late 90s....the Bison were very much still D2 but getting closer to making the jump. I graduated HS in 2002 and in my HS years, this was OUR RB.....Bison fans will remember this fella.

https://www.bisonillustrated.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Lamar_Gordon_NDSU_Bison.jpg

Yep. Lamar Gordon. He was the guy that made you get to the game early because he broke quite a few long runs real early in the game and you didn't want to miss one. He almost lead us to the 2000 National Championship. Lost in the National semifinals to Delta State on their kitty litter field.

End thread drift.

Dewey

[dewey]

I knew a little bit about Adrian Peterson but I looked on Wikipedia's page about him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Peterson_(American_football,_born_1979)

WOW!

Between high school and college he ran for over 13,000 yards.

It is surprising he only won the Walter Payton award one time.

Dewey

[PaladinFan]

I knew a little bit about Adrian Peterson but I looked on Wikipedia's page about him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Peterson_(American_football,_born_1979)

WOW!

Between high school and college he ran for over 13,000 yards.

It is surprising he only won the Walter Payton award one time.

Dewey

Many assume that Peterson was just another "good" FCS running back - the type you see pop up every year or two. He wasn't. He is a class to himself.

The Walter Payton was won the next season (2000) by a different SoCon running back, Louis Ivory. In 2000, Ivory rushed for 2,079 and 16 touchdowns. Peterson rushed for 2,056 and 19 touchdowns. Nothing really Peterson didn't do, but Ivory edged him out.