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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: OrangeAfroMan on July 02, 2018, 09:42:31 PM

Title: Best #33
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 02, 2018, 09:42:31 PM

Vote!  This is a democracy, dammit!

Title: Re: Best #33
Post by: ELA on July 02, 2018, 09:46:29 PM

I don't remember Foreman being anything special

Title: Re: Best #33
Post by: OrangeAfroMan 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).

Title: Re: Best #33
Post by: ELA 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.

Title: Re: Best #33
Post by: Entropy on July 03, 2018, 09:23:56 AM

this one is tough...

Title: Re: Best #33
Post by: utee94 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.

Title: Re: Best #33
Post by: OrangeAfroMan 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.

Title: Re: Best #33
Post by: OrangeAfroMan 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.

Title: Re: Best #33
Post by: FearlessF 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

Title: Re: Best #33
Post by: OrangeAfroMan 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

Title: Re: Best #33
Post by: ELA on July 05, 2018, 06:23:48 PM

We rag the Heisman voters but we have a QB/RB bias too

Title: Re: Best #33
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 05, 2018, 06:25:34 PM

Yeah, it's gross (inevitable?).