Choose Your Half Back

[Trinton Breeze]

Choose the Hurricane that you would want to be in the backfield

Ottis Anderson​

• 3,331 rushing yards
• 15 rushing touchdowns

Willis McGahee​

• 2,067 rushing yards
• 31 rushing touchdowns

Edgerrin James​

• 2,929 rushing yards
• 32 rushing touchdowns

Who you guys taking?

 

[F-MarioCristobal]

Pre-injury I think I'd have to go McGahee.

Might just be because I was too young to remember Edge and not alive for Ottis. Willis was the first RB I tried to be like when I was a RB. Made my dad drop $$ on the orange oakley visor, I had to wear the number 2, the black socks, and I had to have the same gloves that he wore.

 

[canecrazy23]

Choose the Hurricane that you would want to be in the backfield

Ottis Anderson​

• 3,331 rushing yards
• 15 rushing touchdowns

Willis McGahee​

• 2,067 rushing yards
• 31 rushing touchdowns

Edgerrin James​

• 2,929 rushing yards
• 32 rushing touchdowns

Who you guys taking?

Edge will always be my favorite.

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

If you can turn injuries off, the best backs I've ever seen at Miami in my lifetime (started going to games in 1989) was:

1. Frank Gore
2. Willis McGahee
3. Edgerrin James
4. Clinton Portis

The ONLY caveat here is, we didn't get to see Frank do it as a starter against good comp. But I don't care, that 2001 season, he was literally breathtaking. You guys gotta remember, this was pre-internet, for the most part. It existed, but it was 0.0001% the way it is today. So there were plenty of people going to the games who knew who Frank was and what he did at Gables. But the vast majority of people in that building did not. So when he came into the game and got his first carry, you could literally feel 50K people gasping. It was insane. He was shot out of a ******* cannon, with lateral agility I've rarely seen from anyone, ever. So if you wanna say he wasn't #1, I get it. The other guys definitely did more against good teams, by the time Frank rehabbed to become the starter, he wasn't the same player as he was as a true freshman. But to me, again this is all assuming injuries never happen, that 2001 season from Gore was one of the best running backs I've ever seen in person, at any level from any team. He was literally breathtaking.

 

[Brains]

Edge

 

[SWFLHurricane]

For one yr....Mcgahee (02)
For 4yrs....Edgerrin

 

[AtlAtty]

To put those stats in context, McGahee’s yards and TD’s are almost all in one season. He was better than any RB ever at UM for one season and it’s not really close.

But career is a different issue and, IMO, Edge had the best career at UM.

 

[561Cane]

Edge...not even close.

 

[QuattroCane]

I'd have to say Lenny Kravitz...wait what???

 

[ddann]

Edge but I reserve the right to change my answer if we need a halfback pass in the snow

Might as well go ahead and change your answer, then. Halfback passes in the snow are ALWAYS needed.

 

[AtlAtty]

One more factor to add. McGahee in the Swamp was his really his coming out party and a lot of us breathed a sigh of relief that he could handle the work load after Gore went down with the ACL injury in pre-season. McGahee was (best **** Vitale voice) flat out awesome against UF.

 

[MadCane19]

IDK tough call, but I do know Will Allen purposely dirty hit McGahee to start the steal in the Fiesta Bowl !

 

[Stats02]

Edge. Easy decision.

 

[theribdoctor]

Edge, but they all hold a special place in my heart.