Makes me nervous. He keeps his legs moving after he gets hit. While it gains extra yardage, it leads to injury.


And that's my word.

9/22/2012 6:55:02 PM

Sports talk in my chit chat?
It's more likely than you think.

[Edited on September 22, 2012 at 7:01 PM. Reason : ... and TA was in.]

9/22/2012 7:00:42 PM

Suspend emory

9/22/2012 7:02:04 PM

well, lesa benz whatever the fuck is in sports talk

9/22/2012 7:02:40 PM

so he'll be called short on a game winning TD against the holes and work at bojangles?

9/22/2012 7:03:23 PM

Please tell me he actually works at Bojangles.
Honestly though, we would be lucky to have anoth.er back like TA.

[Edited on September 22, 2012 at 7:08 PM. Reason : ]

9/22/2012 7:04:44 PM

At least he holds on to the fucking ball (so far at least)

[Edited on September 22, 2012 at 7:09 PM. Reason : .]

9/22/2012 7:09:08 PM

I think I still have a TA jersey somewhere around here.

9/22/2012 7:11:22 PM

I see more of an Andre Brown

9/22/2012 7:19:58 PM

i have Andre Brown's game jersey, straight from Andre himself during the 2009 NFL Combine

9/22/2012 7:28:17 PM

The Gott-father is on

everyone stfu

9/22/2012 7:31:52 PM

He makes James Washington look like a bag of shit.

9/22/2012 7:40:53 PM

9/22/2012 8:20:47 PM

Thorton is nowhere near TA's level

TA is the most talented running back to be at State in the last 20 years, he was just either lazy or super injury prone

9/22/2012 8:30:24 PM

Or both.

Also dumb as a bag of hammers.

If he was at UNC, he would have graduated though.

9/23/2012 11:05:43 AM

you guys should feel bad about insulting TA's intelligence this much

what if he's reading this

oh wait, nigga can't read

9/23/2012 11:28:36 AM

for future reference, it's Thornton

9/23/2012 11:47:33 AM

^With a kick-ass first name.

9/23/2012 11:49:00 AM

TA's injuries arguably had as much to do with his (lack of) training as with his fighting for more yards. Thornton looked a bit like Mustafa in his cuts but with more burst, but then again he had fresh legs and was running against Citadel. If he has better work ethic and *discipline* than TA and Mustafa he definitely has the talent to have a lot of success.

9/23/2012 12:16:13 PM

TA McFumble

9/23/2012 12:24:25 PM

I'd say Mustafa is more like TA. Incredibly talented, but can't stay on the field.

9/23/2012 12:26:50 PM

if greene is incredibly talented, then TA was super duper incredibly talented.

it's silly to even compare the two, other than they both love weed.

9/23/2012 12:35:30 PM

Andre Brown is really the only back in recent memory that could compare to TA, and even he is a level or two below.

in terms of raw talent that is. TA won as many games for us as he lost.

9/23/2012 3:00:40 PM

god i loved watchin TA smash mouth them boys back in them golden years of NCSU football

and yea TA didnt train and didnt take rehab seriously.

[Edited on September 23, 2012 at 3:19 PM. Reason : s]

9/23/2012 3:19:01 PM

haha golden years??

more like golden year.

9/23/2012 9:20:30 PM

he shone brightly, then burnt out

9/23/2012 9:22:32 PM

Quote :

"TA is the most talented running back to be at State in the last 20 years"

Tony Baker says psshhhtttt. Andre Brown is right there with them.

9/23/2012 9:23:18 PM

^^^ nah, BHS meant the greg golden years.

TA was more talented than Baker and Brown. He just couldn't stay healthy/didn't have the work ethic.

[Edited on September 23, 2012 at 9:26 PM. Reason : d]

9/23/2012 9:25:34 PM

TA had a hell of an O-Line while Rivers was still there, and a much better passing attack that freed him up.

Both Baker and Brown had their share of injuries, and had 3 basic problems: Too much RB talent, some of the worst OL we've ever had, and for much of their careers terrible QBs that weren't going to beat them (of course when they got Russel that changed)

Give Brown a healthy year as the feature back in place of McLendon that gator bowl year, and Brown might out gain him.

9/23/2012 9:36:45 PM

TA had PR, Brown had Daniel Evans/Stone lolers to compare the two

9/23/2012 11:55:37 PM

And most importantly, TA had a MUCH better OL his first two years.

9/23/2012 11:57:59 PM

BigEgo you were like 5 when Rivers was here.

9/24/2012 12:03:07 AM

Damn, how'd I get a TWW account at 13?

I probably knew more about NC State football at 10 than 99% of students. I didn't have shit to do back then but play video games, watch football, and surf the internet.

9/24/2012 12:15:51 AM

That's unconvincing on a couple of different levels.

9/24/2012 12:42:40 AM

Don't care if you believe me. Like most people here, I'm fairly intelligent and had zero difficulty in school (especially 5th-8th grade AKA the Rivers years for me). I had a ton of free time to do whatever the fuck, and I was good at computers and have been a State fan since I was born.

9/24/2012 1:51:17 AM

Quote :

"I was good at computers and have been a State fan since I was born."

Done. Put him on the staff.

9/24/2012 6:43:06 AM

ThorNton

9/24/2012 9:16:54 AM

[Edited on September 24, 2012 at 12:33 PM. Reason : !]

9/24/2012 12:33:18 PM

In retrospect, this thread was a mistake. Thornton was nothing like TA. Ended up being pretty quiet this past season

1/28/2013 8:57:08 PM

EMCE you suck at twwing

1/28/2013 9:09:23 PM

script

1/28/2013 9:10:42 PM

i went to hs in pennsylvania, and i remember talking w/ a buddy of mine who was an ohio state fan and us both being super pumped about our respective freshman running backs. how foolish we look, in hindsight.

1/29/2013 2:27:34 AM

Turnover Anytime McClendon

1/29/2013 6:44:54 AM