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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: OrangeAfroMan on July 21, 2018, 09:37:14 PM
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Back at it again, think before you act!
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OK, I voted for a Cane
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That whole LB corps was sick - Barrow in the middle, flanked by Armstead and Darrin Smith.
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I had to go with the cane as well...
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Barrow and Armstead were just plain nasty next to each other. I think they reunited later in the NFL too. Play together on that Giants team that went to the Super Bowl against Ray Lewis?
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Yeah, but by then Barrow was relatively heavy and stiff due to aging.
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I'll never forget it - it may have been '91 or '92 maybe, Miami played Penn St and won. But on one play, Penn St's best WR O.J. McDuffie caught a ball by the sideline, got past the DB, and was sprinting down the sideline for a long TD. But one of Miami's backup LBs was right on his tail the whole way - didn't catch him from behind, but was literally step-for-step with him - and close enough so that McDuffie wasn't coasting just to stay out of reach. It has stuck with me to this day.
Back at Miami, Armstead and Barrow got the most publicity, but Darrin Smith was probably the fastest of the three. It probably wasn't fair having them all on one squad, lol.
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Those late 80's early 90's Miami and FSU teams change UNL's recruiting and Defensive design. Farley would not have been a UNL LB 5 years earlier. He was basically a large safety playing OLB.
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That's what they did - recruit safeties to play LB, and LBs to play DE. Size was traditionally valued in LBs. But if you could get smaller, faster LBs who could still make the tackle, they were all the more effective. I know Urlacher was a safety in HS and started that way in college, then went to LB and had a HOF NFL career.
Jevon Kearse moved closer to the LOS each step of the way - in HS he was a safety (frightening), college a LB, and DE as a pro.