Statistical bias? Ok then using your logic Barry Sanders is not the greatest college running back of all time because of SOS, and all the rest of the things you mentioned. Statistical bias is everywhere in college football. There is no way around it. That’s why using it as some sort of ammo for a retort is useless. Take the NFL. Who is the best QB to ever play? Tom Brady? Is he that much better than Tarkenton? Stabler? Grange? How far back you want to go?
Stats are how players are judged. That’s just fact. Saying Etienne is my hero just shows how your argument has failed. I stated a fact that goes against our fans perceptions. Does that mean I like Etienne better than any of our former RBs? Absolutely not. My favorite TN RB is Charlie Garner . I would take him 100 times out of 100 over Etienne. That doesn’t change the fact that statistically speaking Etienne was much better.
Yes, statistical bias is everywhere and that's why an opinion based on those bias stats cannot be presented as irrefutable fact. Etienne wasn't that much better than Garner when you adjust for length of career, but he was better statistically speaking, so your last sentence is fair. But that doesn't mean that if you dropped Etienne in that UT offense he would have out-performed Garner. That is my whole point. Because we;ll never know neither you, nor I, nor anyone else can say one player was absolutely better than anyone else a university ever had.
Btw, I called him your hero because you chose to irrationally marry your arugment him. I don't believe he's your hero, but making light of you in that fashion was more polite than just calling you out for being dense and obtuse. I wouldn't have wasted my time typing if your original posts had just stated Etienne was statistically better.