Can Tre Newton earn a repeat Flavor of the Week Award?
Without a Morning Coffee this week, there wasn’t an opportunity to talk about the newest Flavor of the Week for the season, the second winner even though there haven’t even been two games played yet. That would be redshirt sophomore running back Tre’ Newton, who was the most effective of the three backs in using his vision and patience to hit the proper holes. It’s known now that he isn’t a home run threat, but the ability to consistently pick up positive yardage and make the right play — in other words, be the very definition of “steady” — that has to this point make Newton stand out among the running backs, according to Mack Brown: Tre’ has a great knack for finding the hole and then he has this burst that he gets through it. We laughed. We didn’t make the third and two, but he scored three times on the goal line and when you guys interview him I try to watch the interviews and see what our kids are saying, and Tre’ said, ‘Boy when I feel that goal line I can just smell it.’ Well I
