What makes a good running back?

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From a purely analytical standpoint, his evaluation technique and method is very good. Too bad that extra factor literally blinds the eyes of scouts and recruiters to the point that they will actually turn their backs on a potential white recruit when they've gone to a school to recruit a bruva.
 
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Sometimes I think that if coaches and recruiters really were "colorblind", and players were chosen purely on athletic merit for each position (as in, an observer could watch the players perform but be unaware of their race), QBs would be almost universally White, while defenses would have more parity between White and Black, and there would probably be more than a handful of White runningbacks, too.

If you're a White dude trying to play runningback in college or in the pros, even if you slaughtered tons of Congoids in high school games, you've got as much chance of making it at the next level as Jesse Jackson does with getting through a primary school reader without stuttering a dozen times over words like "playground" and "race-baiter".
 
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