Cedric Cobbs....Arkansas tailback around '03....not sure he was ever a household name because he seemed to have trouble getting his head on straight, but his highlights were fun when he was focused and got just a little help. Best/worst memory I have of him is the 2003 Ark/LSU game. LSU figured out something with the blocking scheme in the second half and Cobb went quiet, but man did he run wild on us for a half that day. That '03 tiger defense was pretty good, too.
I was talking just the other day with a guy about Cecil Collins. He's LSU's version of "The Best That Never Was." Insane athletic potential. He played his high school ball not far from me, and the amount of stuff that came out his community covered up to get him to LSU was ridiculous at best, immoral and possibly criminal at worst. There are guys who have discipline problems, and then there are the Cecil Collins of the world....I met him one time after he was booted at LSU and landed at McNeese (where he was subsequently also booted). He wasn't just "not the sharpest tool in the shed"....he seemed to have legit trouble putting a sentence together. I remember coming away with the impression that he was surely not all there and have never been sure since how much his actions were his fault and how much fault lay with people who should've looked out for him. He still made an NFL team, I think one of the Florida franchises, but he broke into a woman's house and went to prison shortly thereafter. Never heard much more about him. Still, the thought of him and Kevin Faulk sharing carries on the same team make LSU fans both drool and cry to this day. He had some RUNS in those 4 games.
