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OrangeAfroMan

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Best #33
« on: July 02, 2018, 09:42:31 PM »
Vote!  This is a democracy, dammit!
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Re: Best #33
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2018, 09:46:29 PM »
I don't remember Foreman being anything special

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Re: Best #33
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2018, 09:54:10 PM »
Then don't vote for him, lol.  I guess 2,000 yard seasons grow on trees now.  I guess you could say Barry Sanders wasn't anything special (just one big year).
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Re: Best #33
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2018, 10:19:04 PM »
I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to be here.  I forgot his Doak season was that good.  I was just saying I didn't remember him being that good.  He deserves to be be here.

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Re: Best #33
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2018, 09:23:56 AM »
this one is tough...

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Re: Best #33
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2018, 10:04:37 AM »
D'onta was a stud.  Pretty much the only bright spot on those woefully inept Charlie Strong offenses.

Not the best player on this list, but man I was glad to have him.

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Re: Best #33
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2018, 11:51:05 PM »
Wright might have had the best season for a LB, ever.  
164 tackles
31 TFL
15 sacks
5 forced fumbles

This is a career assessment, but that one season was bonkers.
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Re: Best #33
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2018, 11:19:34 PM »
This is interesting in that Barry Sanders was a runaway winner for a tough number, but the guy who had the best season for a RB before Sanders doesn't even get a vote here (yet?).  Hmmph.
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Re: Best #33
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2018, 10:27:11 AM »
obviously Marcus was a system back or didn't do well in the NFL or just kicked too much B1G butt in the Rose bowl

I went with Slingin Sammy, but I'd have voted Marcus ahead of anyone else on the list
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Re: Best #33
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2018, 06:00:48 PM »
List of 3-time, consensus All-Americans since the WWII era:
Doc Blanchard & Glenn Davis (same backfield @ Army)
Kenny Easley (UCLA)  didn't win his number
Hugh Green (Pitt)
Jerry Robinson (UCLA)
Doak Walker (TCU)
Herschel Walker (UGA)
James Laurinaitis (OSU)  ain't gonna win his number
« Last Edit: July 05, 2018, 06:26:06 PM by OrangeAfroMan »
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Re: Best #33
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2018, 06:23:48 PM »
We rag the Heisman voters but we have a QB/RB bias too

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Re: Best #33
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2018, 06:25:34 PM »
Yeah, it's gross (inevitable?).
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