Journey Brown wins PA state 60 meter. Improves time AGAIN!
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I believe the kid has put up some big numbers on the football field already. Don't sleep on this kid.
Haven't seen much of his tape but as Nittany.Lion pointed out Journey Brown opened eyes nationally as a sophomore with that 700-yard, 10-TD performance. With good size and blazing speed, just can't understand the lack of offers. Assume the staff chose JB over the Lovett kid who was committed to Rutgers.
Sa Sa was never a high school track stud. He didn't even run track until his jr or sr year. He was good because he is just so naturally talented, but he never really concentrated on being a sprinter in terms of how to get out of the blocks, etc.
Brown is a sprinter, plain and simple. He knows what he is doing on the track. Running 6.8 takes a lot more than just being fast, gotta know the sprinting technique.
Brown is a sprinter, plain and simple. He knows what he is doing on the track. Running 6.8 takes a lot more than just being fast, gotta know the sprinting technique.
Yeah. The shot putter is the story here. Brown is fast but he's not in the same class as the shot putter.
We already have the BIG indoor 60 meter champ on campus! Not sure if he could play football though.
I think I recall a combination of Brown playing for a small school in a lightly-recruited area and him needing to get his grades and test scores up. He hit the camp circuit, but not particularly hard and not until late in the process - which didn't help him.
Wow....we have a shot putter that is faster than Journey Brown.....holy smokes!
If Journey could sprint at the level that the kid shot puts then we'd really have something to yap about. Holy smokes is right!
This is in no way a knock against Journey Brown, but I'm told by observers that Meadville-DuBois game was just a gawd-awful high school football game played between two gawd-awful teams in an area (D-10 and D-9 larger schools) that -- with the exception of a couple teams (Erie Prep, McDowell) -- has been known for gawd-awful football for the last decade or so. Those were two teams incapable of tackling anybody or defending even the simplest run and pass plays.
I did not see that game, but did see both teams play other opponents that year. I also saw the game in Warren the night Brown's Meadville team scored 70+ points and lost. Every third or fourth play was a long touchdown with virtually no resistance from either team's defense. Trust me when I tell you it was very bad football.
Journey Brown can flat out fly. There is no question about his speed. I saw him play three times in his high school career and can't even begin to offer an informed opinion about what kind of college career he could have at PSU. He could -- and I hope he does -- transition well to the Big Ten level. But that jump is so huge that it could be a struggle. Time will tell.
Did you actually read the words the poster wrote? .......... BEFORE you "responded"?
DuBois played a lot of other teams that year...how many other RB's gained 700 yards and had 10 TD's against them? It's not like they couldn't ever tackle anyone or they would give up over 100 points every game...but they didn't. I don't care who you're playing against, if you can rack up 700 yards in a game you can play football. Many players play against some bad defenses throughout their career, how many of them gain over 700 yards in a game?
Let's be fair. Devon Smith was the team's third-highest yardage receiver in 2011, and was second in the conference in punt returns in 2010. He was never able to translate his track speed to D1 football, but it wasn't as though he was invisible here - he was a valuable depth option on some pretty offense-starved teams in 2010 and 2011.
He also tended to trip and fall over yardlines. He certainly didn't do much when he transferred to Marshall if I recall.
Wasn't it one of our own who called the USC football players track athletes. I believe it was Koa Farmer. And we saw how well it works for USC. The issue here isn't pussy it's monkey. Put succinctly, let's see what he can do when he puts on a Penn State uniform. Until then he's got his work cut out for him.
Looks like after taking his redshirt year in 2012, he was the third-leading receiver on their team in 2013, with 39 receptions, 653 yards and 4 touchdowns. He was also their primary punt returner, averaging 15 yards per return with one touchdown. Not busting the doors down, but it looks like he was a solid contributor there in the one season he played.
