http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content....&CID=572307
bush highlights ... really i see nothing .. i see a big guy with no balance at all
And this is all you've seen? I'm not being sarcastic in asking. I am curious. Your opinion is certainly shared by a few I respect and have watched him quite a bit.

CC, I have to laugh man. This is the third highlight video (the YouTube one I reviewed for DraftGuys, the SportsIllustrated one and this Rivals one) that people agree makes him look overrated, but you dismiss. Now you know I love you and your opinion, and you did win the division over EBF and I in Z30, but isn't it just possible that it's not that all the video highlights are bad, but that he just isn't that good?
I think assumption is the lowest form of conversation.

I have not rendered an opinion on Bush since December. That opinion merely stated that he is an unknown (while ranking him in the top ten of admittedly very premature rankings). I don't care for this class of backs, and that should be very clear to you by now. How many times have I said that?
We all know Bush's weaknesses and we all know he was working on them. I thought the 120 yards in 17 carries for 3 TDs against Kentucky showed a changed back. You cannot help but be impressed with the spin move and sick leg drive into the endzone with lowered pads. His pads come down and he hits it with great power. That's what we needed to see. And despite your comments above he was exploding through tacklers in that game. It was a very impressive night.
You cannot reasonably grade a back based on his highlights. I've argued that before and don't want to do it again. I can think of, and I'm sure Nowak can recall, a couple dozen remarkable big plays by Bush that do not appear in any of those highlights. This dude set the school record with 23 rushing TDs in 05 and he was soft, knew it, and promised to work on it. There's a few TDs in the highlights but anyone watching Sportscenter on Saturdays in O5 surely remembers some of those missing long runs, bodies bouncing off him, dragging LBs, outrunning safeties, soft hands, quick feet... just not much for power running and big contact. He drags people though. Look at the TD before the TD pass in your own highlights. I agree with Scott Wright. Bush has great balance. Sorry, but he does. You guys are seeing him getting tripped up by guys shooting at and hitting his feet. What a sorry set of highlights. He stumbles once, but go back and watch his feet getting taken out from under him. Any back goes down when that happens. I also agree he runs with great vision and patience. But when he slows down, it's pretty much the end of the play give or take a few more yards.
It's an unusual package in a big back. Guys his size don't have a great history of longevity. They are big targets. I chuckle when people worry about Garrett Wolfe's durability. I worry about the big guys. Okoye, Word, Butts, Means, others... not many long productive careers. Flashes of brilliance and they fade away.
But none of them were the athlete Bush is. I think he sticks around for a long time. He's got great hands. He could make a nice HBack. He will be good in pass pro and what a big target for a safety valve. If the Raiders can put together a legit NFL offense instead of that bed and breakfast attack they boasted, Bush is a great redzone player both as a runner and a receiver. He is money inside the 20. Will that ever matter? Will it increase his fantasy value? I plead ignorance.
So my opinion is a mixed bag like it is on so many of these backs this year. Forming definitive opinions is almost silly. Why do it? The most factual thing we can report about Bush is that he looked like he may have addressed his weaknesses and broke his leg, so we don't have enough film to be sure of much. Everything else, and I don't much care who publishes or posts it, is overly presumptuous to me.
Bush as a feature runner is probably too big a target and too slow of foot. He just doesn't gear up fast enough to be featured successfully, unless it's a full blown West Coast Offense that is constantly sending him to the edges and flats... HBack stuff again. His long speed is underrated though.
I think you have to disconnect from standard RB evaluation when a 6-2 250 pound dude is toting the rock. You have to play closer attention to the pressure he puts on the defense. The yards accumulated at the end of ugly clumsy runs. Those college boys wanted no part of him in some of those clips. Defenders slide off him where they probably take down a Kenny Irons or Lo Booker. Then he gets tripped up by someone smart enough to dive at his shoes and someone says he goes down on first contact and has poor balance.
He has value. Maybe more to the Raiders than us fantasy guys, but those 23 rushing TDs and his nose for the endzone are intriguing, as was the burst and power he displayed against Kentucky last year. I also thought he was valiant in the Gator Bowl the year before. Virginia Tech's defense was nasty and he went at them all day.
One of my current themes is that these guys look much the same in the NFL as they do in college. The old school arguments about what will and won't work in the NFL are breaking down. If it is working in the NCAA and the production is based on ability, then it's going to be diluted but similar in the NFL. Vince and Reggie didn't have a prayer in the NFL according to many. What they did only worked in college they argued. They looked pretty much the same to me, and they were both very good. Same with little Mo Drew. Same guy I loved at my alma mater. Cutler looked better in Denver than he did at Vandy. The college game has changed. It is more of an NFL farm system than ever and every conference is littered with ex NFL coaches.
Anyway Construx, I haven't dismissed anyone's opinions. I'm open minded to him being worthless indefinitely, or perhaps being a solid contributor. I do not see a feature back, fwiw.
And beating you and EBF in our division is not very impressive.