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The Power Five => SEC => Topic started by: OrangeAfroMan on July 12, 2018, 11:21:48 PM
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I was thinking this would be a good thread - just bringing up random guys that many may have forgotten.
For me, I just drove cross-country, and for some reason, Cecil Collins popped in my head while I drove through Louisiana.
Collins only played 4 games in his career, in 1997 for LSU. But he was notable because he rushed for 8.3 yards per carry. He only played because Kevin Faulk got hurt. Rondell Mealey took over after him - but for a 4-game stretch - it was Cecil Collins getting it done.
Any of you have some random players that swirl around in your head from time to time?
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kelly washington... juco transfer with tons of 'tude, ran roughshod over LSU in the regular season game as they simply didn't have a response for him- and when they actually did cover him other players broke free... it was a fairly tight game leading up to his 'discovery' on a crossing route right in front of the LB/SS seam... if he had been discovered a quarter sooner the yardage might have been a NCAA record.. (or LSU would have had more time to figure it out and shut it down)... i think he had 276yds iirc receiving that game. he flashed several times that season afterward, but LSU beat UT in the SECCG, and Washington bounced i think it was to the Eagles, and I never heard about him again.
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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.
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marvin constant. mentioned him on the b1g board in similar thread. had a very promising career that was ended with an injury on last second goal line stand to win game vs lsu in 99.
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A more of a never-was for Florida was Willie Green. He was a top RB recruit, but kept tearing up his knees at UF. I believe he had 5 major knees surgeries and never did anything. In high school, he had similar numbers to Emmitt. He was a speed back, though, and everyone was so excited to have him at uF.
Anyway, yeah, he ends up as a major cocaine trafficker in FL and going to jail. So there's that.
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Jared Lorenzen, offensive guard for Kentucky.
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He was merely large at UK....he didn't get super-sized until Arena football.
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Odell Thurman....played at UGA and finished around '04, I think. Got less pub than defensive teammate David Pollack but I remember him being fun to watch. He was really good.
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Didn't he get booted from the team for disciplinary reasons?
BTW, Afroman may have been kidding about Jarad Lorentzen being a guard, but he was a 300 pound plus butterball qb for Kentucky who was quite good.
What ever happened to the orange haired fan from whom who Afro adopted his name from? I remember he went everywhere college games were televised and they showed him in many games?
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Thurman was drafted by the Bengals with David Pollack and lasted about as long, never had his head on straight. Richt had hi suspended early and often at UGA.
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Marcus Lattimore.
Chris Leak
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Didn't he get booted from the team for disciplinary reasons?
BTW, Afroman may have been kidding about Jarad Lorentzen being a guard, but he was a 300 pound plus butterball qb for Kentucky who was quite good.
What ever happened to the orange haired fan from whom who Afro adopted his name from? I remember he went everywhere college games were televised and they showed him in many games?
I don't know who you're talking about. I know the Washington State guys go wherever Gameday goes, waving their flag way up high.
My moniker was given to me by the GatorVision jumbo-tron guys in the Swamp. I had front row tickets for a couple of years, and I was right by their home base. I had blue face paint and a big orange afro wig, and they named me with my own graphic on the screen: Orange Afro Man!
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Back in the 70's or 80's there was this fan who had long orange hair who went to games all over the country. He was always shown on television and became a minor celebrity. I thought that might be the person the you used to come up with your name. What happened to him?
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Yeah, no. Hooray for another hypocritical believer!
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Back on track...
Andrew Pinnock, RB, South Carolina
He never ran for a lot of yards, but he was a big boy and always fell forward. His only 2 100-yard games were against Vanderbilt. I just remember thinking it must not be too much fun tackling him. 250 lb RB, wore #4 for the Gamecocks.
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Terry Hoage is a fellow some of you may recall. He was an unrecruited kid out of Texas who made good grade. Dooley offered him on advice of a friend out there. Those days are gone.
Anyway, he played on the UGA 1980-1984 teams and was a two time AA. He now runs a winery in CA.
http://www.thestatewines.com/
https://robbreport.com/food-drink/wine/former-super-bowl-champion-terry-hoage-wine-winning-2776697/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW9L9pDlGW0
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Yeah, a 2x All-American isn't exactly what the spirit of the thread is really about.....
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Yeah, a 2x All-American isn't exactly what the spirit of the thread is really about.....
He is under the radar for most fans though.
He's my hero.
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How about a guy who was really good and had a great career but whom most people wouldn't know? Does that fit the spirit of the thread?
Kevin Mawae is one of my favorite Tigers of all time, easily top 3, if not #1. Great, great attitude, and a great player to boot. He was recruited to the "glamour position" for O-linemen, left tackle, but things changed and circumstances dictated such and such, and he wound up playing center for LSU. His position wasn't the only thing that changed, as Mawae signed up to an LSU team that had just won a pair of SEC championships to cap the 80's, only to watch the team fall into a pit that was LSU football of the 90's. A 4-year starter, Mawae played on some truly wretched college teams, although he distinguished himself rather well. He went on to a 16 year career at center in the NFL, was an 8 (?) time Pro-Bowler and 6 or 7 time All-Pro, and he also served as president of the NFL Players Association for little while.
After football he's continued to be somewhat of a friend and ambassador for the LSU program. He applied for the open O-line coaching job a few seasons ago but wasn't hired. He's currently some kind of offensive analyst at Arizona State, and I hope he does well and moves into coaching where he has expressed interest. Don't know what kind of position coach he'd make, but I hope he succeeds in whatever he's doing, out there with the SunDevils or anywhere else he winds up.
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I knew of him as a pro - had no idea he went to LSU.
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He is under the radar for most fans though.
He's my hero.
idk about that, he's linked with Terry Kinard (Clemson) as the best early-80s safeties that I'm aware of outside the city of Los Angeles.
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I miss Leonard's Losers. Does anyone remember Leonard Postoasties? UGA fans should since he was a Georgia Grad.
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I knew of him as a pro - had no idea he went to LSU.
Oddly, during the worst decade in program history, LSU probably fielded its most outstanding OLs in program history. I mean, we've had plenty of good ones in the up years, even guys who do well in the NFL, but the 90's gave us Mawae, Alan Faneca, and Todd McClure. NFL studs and complete beasts in college.....they just played on some really crappy LSU teams. Even our best OLs of the last 20 years don't measure up to those guys, I don't think.
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Yeah, I remember the 58-3 game in Baton Rouge. LSU was a layup back then. But those Faulk-Collins-Mealey backfields could run you over for a time, though. Spurrier really pounded LSU up until '97.
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In a weird quirk of the quantum vacuum, did you know that half the state of Louisiana--probably about 2 million people--were in Tiger Stadium for that '97 game to see LSU upend #1 ranked and perennial Tiger tormentor, the Florida Gators? Even though the place held around 80k at the time or so.
Just ask them. Everybody was there. Everybody saw it.
I wasn't.
Dammit.
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The only UF-LSU game I attended in Tiger Stadium was 01 I believe....something like 41-15? A big Gators win.
That 97 Florida team was good, but....
but the QB play wasn't great
but UGA finally beat Spurrier
The defense was largely lights-out that year. But Ole Herb Tyler kept getting the corner, looked like he was jogging, lol. He got the job done that day.
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How about a guy who was really good and had a great career but whom most people wouldn't know? Does that fit the spirit of the thread?
Kevin Mawae is one of my favorite Tigers of all time, easily top 3, if not #1. Great, great attitude, and a great player to boot. He was recruited to the "glamour position" for O-linemen, left tackle, but things changed and circumstances dictated such and such, and he wound up playing center for LSU. His position wasn't the only thing that changed, as Mawae signed up to an LSU team that had just won a pair of SEC championships to cap the 80's, only to watch the team fall into a pit that was LSU football of the 90's. A 4-year starter, Mawae played on some truly wretched college teams, although he distinguished himself rather well. He went on to a 16 year career at center in the NFL, was an 8 (?) time Pro-Bowler and 6 or 7 time All-Pro, and he also served as president of the NFL Players Association for little while.
After football he's continued to be somewhat of a friend and ambassador for the LSU program. He applied for the open O-line coaching job a few seasons ago but wasn't hired. He's currently some kind of offensive analyst at Arizona State, and I hope he does well and moves into coaching where he has expressed interest. Don't know what kind of position coach he'd make, but I hope he succeeds in whatever he's doing, out there with the SunDevils or anywhere else he winds up.
I love that we have this dude on our staff, even just as a lowly "analyst" which have a lot of limitations on the amount of direct coaching they can give. Looking through his twitter he is through and through all for ASU though as if he was the school's biggest fan which is very cool to see.