Some ideas for the Dooley’s Dozens come from something I see in a game or think about in the shower (bad visual, I know).
Or sometimes, I get a text from a friend who is working on a story and it gives me an idea. In this case, it was Chris Low from ESPN, who was doing a piece on Missouri’s Cody Schrader.
He wanted to know if Florida had produced a running back who was white and rushed for 1,000 yards in the last 50 years.
I had to look it up to be sure, but the answer was no. Low’s research found that there have been only three in the SEC – Schrader, LSU’s Jacob Hester and Mississippi State’s Wayne Jones.
But while I was doing my own research, I decided a great Dooley’s Dozen would be the 12 seasons Florida has had a 1,000-yard running back.
Except they haven’t. So, we included one who came close. (Of note: the combined rushing yards for Montrell Johnson and that other guy who transferred to Georgia were 1,570 last year and 1,560 the year before.)
I put these guys in the order of their rushing yards, not how good I thought they were.