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OrangeAfroMan

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SI All-time College Football Team
« on: December 24, 2023, 11:33:49 PM »
Forget top 100 players, this is more manageable.  
I have a big, handsome SI college football book and the centerfold is a hand-drawn illustration of their all-time team.  
So I'll post it, and you simply just share your edits.  The rule is whoever you take off, you have to say who you would replace him with.
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QB/P: Sammy Baugh TCU
RB: Glenn Davis ARMY
RB: Red Grange ILL
RB: Jim Brown SYR 
RB: Herschel Walker UGA
RB: Jim Thorpe CARL
RB  Doak Walker SMU
RB/RET: Gale Sayers KU
FB/DT:  Bronko Nagurski MINN
WR: Jerry Rice MVSU 
End: Leon Hart ND
WR: Johnny Rodgers UNL
T: Orlando Pace OSU
T: Ron Yary USC
G: John Hannah ALA 
G: Pudge Heffelfinger YALE
C/LB: Chuck Bednarik PENN
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DE: Bubba Smith MSU
DE: Hugh Green PITT
DT: Lee Roy Selmon OU
LB: Jack Ham PSU
LB: Tommy Nobis TEX
LB: Lawrence Taylor UNC
CB/WR: Charles Woodson UM
CB: Deion Sanders FSU
S:  Kenny Easley UCLA
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HC: Knute Rockne ND
HC: Bear Bryant ALA, A&M, UK
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So there's 26 players.  Definitely skews old school - lots of backs, some of which would play defense as well.  A few 2-way players.  No kicker...I guess they're going for it and going for 2 all the time.
Who would you replace and with whom?
« Last Edit: December 25, 2023, 05:18:18 PM by OrangeAfroMan »
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Re: Top 100 Players....ever
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2023, 12:01:18 AM »
Tebow over Baugh.
Bo in for Thorpe.
Butkus in for Bednarik.  I know the Ivy League was legit back in the day, but by WWII, the Big Ten was as good or better.
Will Shields in for Huffer Puff or whoever.  Having some dude no one's ever heard of was dumb on their part.
Fitzgerald in over Rice (yes, I lowball FCS players, but if Rice went on to be a 5th round draft pick and fizzled out 2 years in the NFL, I don't think he'd be on all these all-time teams for college).
Derrick Thomas in for Ham.
« Last Edit: December 25, 2023, 05:26:08 PM by OrangeAfroMan »
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Re: Top 100 Players....ever
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2023, 09:02:48 AM »
that's a lot of work on Xmas day
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Re: Top 100 Players....ever
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2023, 10:14:31 AM »
Yeah.. I'd have trouble getting it down to 1000!

Best since 2004 maybe? 20 years?
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Re: Top 100 Players....ever
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2023, 12:23:38 PM »
Ol' Spaghetti Legs from the nineteen dicketies has got to be up there.
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Re: Top 100 Players....ever
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2023, 04:59:35 PM »
Yeah, I have another idea.  Hold my eggnog.
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2023, 05:29:19 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on December 24, 2023, 11:33:49 PM
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QB: Tim Tebow UF
RB: Glenn Davis ARMY
RB: Red Grange ILL
RB: Jim Brown SYR
RB: Herschel Walker UGA
RB: Bo Jackson AUB
RB  Doak Walker SMU
RB/RET: Gale Sayers KU
FB/DT:  Bronko Nagurski MINN
WR: Larry Fitzgerald PITT
End: Leon Hart ND
WR: Johnny Rodgers UNL
T: Orlando Pace OSU
T: Ron Yary USC
G: John Hannah ALA
G: Will Shields UNL
C/LB: Dick Butkus ILL
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DE: Bubba Smith MSU
DE: Hugh Green PITT
DT: Lee Roy Selmon OU
DT: Ndomukong Suh UNL
LB: Derrick Thomas ALA
LB: Tommy Nobis TEX
LB: Lawrence Taylor UNC
CB/WR: Charles Woodson UM
CB: Deion Sanders FSU
S:  Kenny Easley UCLA
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HC: Knute Rockne ND
HC: Bear Bryant ALA, A&M, UK
Here's mine.
I'd also probably remove a RB and add a DT (Doak for Suh).
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We'd run a single-wing and I truly believe we'd never have to pass, even against this defense.
« Last Edit: December 25, 2023, 05:34:48 PM by OrangeAfroMan »
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2023, 07:18:39 PM »
Earl Campbell should at least be mentioned
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2023, 07:36:45 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on December 25, 2023, 07:18:39 PM
Earl Campbell should at least be mentioned
I agree.  How can an all-time team not have him and/or Ricky Williams?

You could make the argument that having Davis AND Grange AND Sayers is overkill.  Why do you need 3 small/fast guys?
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #9 on: December 25, 2023, 07:46:32 PM »
I would substitute WR/KR/CB Woodson for QB/RB/KR/CB Nile Kinnick.  To this day Kinnick still holds the Iowa career record for defensive interceptions. 
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #10 on: December 25, 2023, 09:43:08 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on December 25, 2023, 07:18:39 PM
Earl Campbell should at least be mentioned
Nice mention 

Barry Sanders
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #11 on: December 25, 2023, 10:43:25 PM »
Quote from: LittlePig on December 25, 2023, 07:46:32 PM
I would substitute WR/KR/CB Woodson for QB/RB/KR/CB Nile Kinnick.  To this day Kinnick still holds the Iowa career record for defensive interceptions.
I'd consider it cheating, but maybe include Kinnick at CB and move Woodson to safety.  
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #12 on: December 25, 2023, 10:43:33 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on December 25, 2023, 09:43:08 PM
Nice mention

Barry Sanders
Replacing who?
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #13 on: December 25, 2023, 10:51:19 PM »
QB: Tim Tebow UF
RB: Glenn Davis ARMY
RB: Red Grange ILL
RB: Earl Campbell TEX
RB: Herschel Walker UGA
RB: Bo Jackson AUB
RB/RET: Barry Sanders OKST
FB/DT:  Bronko Nagurski MINN
WR: Larry Fitzgerald PITT
End: Leon Hart ND
WR: Johnny Rodgers UNL
T: Orlando Pace OSU
T: Ron Yary USC
G: John Hannah ALA
G: Will Shields UNL
C/LB: Dick Butkus ILL
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DE: Bubba Smith MSU
DE: Hugh Green PITT
DT: Lee Roy Selmon OU
DT: Ndomukong Suh UNL
LB: Derrick Thomas ALA
LB: Tommy Nobis TEX
LB: Lawrence Taylor UNC
CB/WR: Charles Woodson UM
CB: Deion Sanders FSU
S:  Kenny Easley UCLA
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HC: Knute Rockne ND
HC: Bear Bryant ALA, A&M, UK

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Sanders in for Sayers.
Campbell in for Brown. 
Again, those are guys that NFL achievements inflate their college reputations. 
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