#22 Dom Bragalone RB

1. FBS offers, IMO, are a poor judge of college or NFL success. Appalachian State made an entire program out of getting and finding guys that FBS programs were not identifying and developing like Armanti Edwards. How many people thought Vernon Adams would be good enough at QB to start at Oregon next season? Eastern Washington was the only one to take a gamble on him, and it paid off immensely. Their two wins over Pac 12 schools cannot be measured in regards to the football prestige of the school.

2. Having said that, how to these guys fall through the cracks? One way is playing at small HSs – big schools can’t focus on every local HS in the country, so they tend to focus on the bigger football-factory types for the most part. The second is getting heads-up from local kids from schools where the large schools tend to not actively recruit very hard. Cam Richardson from NW Lehigh is a prototypical example. The third is injuries – sometimes a guy shines bright junior year, but then gets injured, or circumstances conspire to have a less than stellar senior year. The reasons are many.

Personally, I have no idea if Dom or Micco will be the next coming of Rabih Abdullah or not, but I’m excited to see them in brown and white to see what they are capable of. Incidentally, if you’ve been around Lehigh a while Abdullah is my first team Mountain Hawk All Half-Century team. I was in the stands watching him carve up Cornell for the Lehigh rushing record and he was a man among boys.

Look who is projected to start day one. I think someone mentioned that in this thread!

LG,
Please stop. Yosha had enough injuries to terminate his career. That was truly unfortunate. During his shortened season however, he averaged 5.3/ypc, which is slightly more than our swiss cheese rush defense gave up and just slightly less than Rabih Abdullah averaged for his career. Had Yosha stayed healthy, my guess is that his career may have been quite prolific…..but we’ll never know that and you would never have admitted it.
So tell me in advance. What does DB have to do in order to earn your respect? Think carefully because if he does it, I’m holding your feet to the fire

Dont be mad TMH, i know you LOVED Yosha…LOL. He was what i said he was. He did what i said he would. LOL he played in 7 games and avg 45yds a game…WOW! He was injury prone his whole life and LU took a HUGE risk on him and lost. The BIG Miami U transfer who was a WALK ON there…LOL. Hope he gets a good education at Indiana University (he will walk on there next yr). As for Bragalone, I hope he rushes for 1000 yds and 20tds! Brisker will unseat him, i actually think Bragalone is the THIRD best freshman back behind Brisker and Thevaya, Theveya is a talent, he will see the field this yr and shock everyone. I think hes LU homerun and energy back, all other backs are just power.

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