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Title: All-Time MSU by decade
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on March 15, 2021, 11:50:42 AM

1980s MSU All-Star Team:
I liked MSU in the late 80s.  I was a kid, but I viewed their program like Clemson - crazy-tough defense with a good running game...always good, but rarely elite.  While Clemson was sort of the toughest team in the weaker ACC, MSU was plenty tough, but not skilled enough to consistently take on UM, ILL, OSU, etc.
Anyways....
QB - Dave Yarema and either Dan Enos or Bobby McAllister......I recall McAllister being a running QB, but Enos ran, too, and had twice the rushing TDs.  Coin flip for me.
RB - Lorenzo White, Blake Ezor, Tony Ellis, Carl Butler.......reeeeally falls off after Ezor, had a few productive RBs in the early 90s that just miss here.
WR/TE - Rison, Ingram, Ted Jones, Daryl Turner, Otis Grant, Bobby Morse (RB), with the TE being either Al Kimichik or Butch Rolle
Basically the whole passing game is going to Rison, lol.

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Title: Re: All-Time MSU by decade
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on March 19, 2021, 11:25:41 AM

70s Spartan All-Stars:
QB:  Ed Smith and.....I guess Charles Baggett - bad passer, but looks like he could run the option at least
RB:  Steve Smith, Eric Allen, Levi Jackson, and Richard Baes.....replace Baes with Baggett when/if you want to run the option
WR/TE:  Kirk Gibson, Eugene Byrd, Mark Brammer (TE), Gordon Bowell (TE), Mike Hurd, Smith (RB)
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Any memories of these guys?  All I know about them is that one hit a HR in a couple of World Series.

Title: Re: All-Time MSU by decade
Post by: ELA on March 19, 2021, 11:43:14 AM

Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on March 19, 2021, 11:25:41 AM

Any memories of these guys?  All I know about them is that one hit a HR in a couple of World Series.

Between Gibson, Steve Garvey and Robin Roberts, MSU football could field a pretty solid baseball team.

Minnesota has a dude who might have something to say about that.

Title: Re: All-Time MSU by decade
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on March 19, 2021, 11:47:43 AM

90s Spartans!  What is your profession!?!  
QBs:  Bill Burke, for sure.  Then there's like 3 guys with nearly the same stats:  Miller, Shultz, Banks.....I'd go with Banks.  
RBs:  Tico Duckett, Irvin, Goulbourne, Renaud.  I always thought of Sedrick Irvin as a slow Marshall Faulk.  Is that weird?  And the elder Duckett played like Florida's Errict Rhett - played like he weight 240, but only weighed 210.
WR/TE:  Plaxico, Gari Scott, Mason, Coleman, Haygood, probably Muhammad for name recognition over Nigea Carter...and I need a TE......Josh Keur.
Acutally, I think Irvin's 100+ receptions should be in there.
So I'll go Burress, Scott, Mason, Coleman, Keur, and Irvin.  
I could also slide Scott Greene in there, for Coleman, but idk.