Chris Low posted something yesterday that made me think:
… If I were sculpting an SEC football Mount Rushmore, Walker would be one of my locks along with Bear Bryant. I think you have to include Steve Spurrier in that group, too. As for the fourth member, let the debate begin. But, yes, Walker was the best I’ve ever seen play in this conference and really became almost a mythical figure. Hard to believe that it’s been almost 30 years since he played his last college football game. … “He’s running over people. Oh you Herschel Walker!”
I agree with those three choices. But who do you pick for the fourth? Bo Jackson? The GPOOE™? Archie or Peyton Manning? Nick Saban? (Okay, on that last one, I keed, I keed.)
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Walker, Bear, Spurrier, & Bo.
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Bo? Really? What did HE win? His stats weren’t even THAT outstanding. Freak of an athlete, but not on a par with the other three names you put up there.
I’d say you have to at least have a national championship and multiple SEC championships to get up there. That lets Bo out. Jake Scott and Bill Stanfill have credentials as good as Bo. I admit Bo had better commercials.
I’m a long way from being a Tebow fan, but the guy was the driving force on one national championship team, an interesting role player on another, and he was basically the Gators’ whole offense his last three years (which were all pretty good). Tebow never made a wrong turn at the goal line that cost his team a championship, either. I don’t know if he deserves to be up there, but he’s way ahead of Bo.
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Reggie Ball?
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I horse laughed on that one crane.
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roy kramer deserves a lot of recognition for the success of the conference over the last two decades. maybe he can have his own crazy horse-type monument, or at least a plaque in the parking lot.
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I was going to say Roy Kramer as well. His greed fundamentally changed college football forever and also made the SEC the dominant conference in the land. Perhaps we would have reached the current point of the tail-wagging-the-dog regarding television, the NCAA and college football as a professional sport, but Kramer certainly ushered in the beginning of this era.
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I could be talked into Archie, Bo or even Johnny Vaught.
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General Neyland.
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Second.
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Third
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Id keep it at 2 for now. No on really belongs on there with those 2 at this point. If SOS wins a conf. title at USC I’d change my mind. Past that I think Vince or Neyland would be ahead of any other players at 4.
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If Spurrier wins an SEC title with the Gamecocks, that’ll be a huge accomplishment, indeed. But let’s not forget that at the time SOS took over the Gators, they were the only charter member that had never gotten a title (that stuck), other than Vandy and Sewanee. During his tenure, UF roared to the middle of the pack in number of SEC championships, past the likes of Georgia Tech and Ole Miss.
But honestly, as I’ve said before, UF, FSU, and Miami ought to have statues of Willis Carrier outside their stadiums. Demographics made those programs as much as anything else.
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Hate to say it but it has to be Tebow.
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Agree.
And I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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Ron Franklin
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Over Uncle Verne? I think not!
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Well, we all need a little history likely, but I would put a quarterback with Walker, my vote would be a three headed manning.
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Bob Neyland
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Larry Munson.
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+whatever you call a 1 with a billion gazillion 0’s
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Adolph Rupp
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Interesting. As a hoops-first fan, in one way i like that.
On the other hand, although we are all to a considerable degree products of our time (Dooley, who strikes me as being approximately as racist as Tony Dungy — which is to say, not all — had all white teams because that’s just how it was), Rupp’s racism was pretty enthusiastic and well beyond go along to get along.
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I would go with Bo. Not quite as dominant as Walker, but very close. Probably the second-best player the conference has had, IMO. Tebow’s not even close. I could also go General Neyland, or maybe Vaught.
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Very close to as dominant as Herschel? Please. Herschel didnt lose an SEC game his entire career. He didnt lose a home game his entire career. He AVERAGED almost as many yards against Florida as Bo gained in 4 years against them. Herschel took the ball 30 plus times a game for 3 years, hardly ever missed any time. He dislocated his shoulder early in the Sugar Bowl as a freshman, ran to the sideline, popped it back in place and returned to lead UGA to a national championship win. Bo? He took himself out of at least one game with a “thigh bruise.” Auburn people love to bleat about “if Bo had that many carries, he’d have been WAY better.” What a load. Bo couldnt take the pounding, and he NEVER shouldered the load the way HW did, game after game, year after year.
I’m not saying Bo wasnt a good player, or a phenominal athlete. But if you think Bo was in any way comparable to Herschel Walker, you must not have ever seen Herschel play. He was a much better baseball player, though, so there’s that.
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As much as I hated Tebow at Florida, he exists on an another level that Bo never even approached. Bo’s legend is WAY overstated.
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Snake Stabler…with a super-hot blonde in his lap…dancing
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LOL. Can he share space with Joe Willie?
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Absolutely but with the caveat that there’s always a danger of a fistfight between Joe and Snake if Suzy Kolber is anywhere in the vicinity of the Mount
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Don’t forget the Cutty and water.
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Erk Russell, Jake Scott, Thomas Davis, Greg Blue
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I might nominate Billy Cannon, except for the whole counterfeiting thing…
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Bart Starr, Joe Namath, Peyton Manning?
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My thought process: Florida’s been good, but not so dominant that they should have 2 of the 4 on Mount SECmore. So Tebow’s out. Bo is HerschelLite, so he’s out. You have 1 coach, 1 player, and 1 who was both. So those bases are covered. In a nod to the leadership it took to get the SEC where it is today, I say Roy Kramer. Despite having less name recognition than the others, his vision was an integral part of the SEC’s growth, and a tribute to those working behind the scenes and often out of the limelight.
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Spurrier. Don’t forget he won a heisman as a player. As much as I hate to admit it he is a no brained
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Willie Martinez. Mike Bobo. Ray Goff. Joe Cox.
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Pulpwood Smith
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Hell yeah!!!!
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Danny Wuerffel was pretty incredible and gets forgotten. He won 4 consecutive SEC titles from 93-96, plus the 96 Heisman.
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That’s a good one. Still chuckling …
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Yeah, what Tom Poland said. Did the name Bobby Dodd ever cross anyone’s minds.
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I say Archie. You just have to be old enough to remember what a big deal he was at the time: the broken arm, the Heisman campaign which most of us believed (rightly or wrongly) was a Richard Russell-type he’d-be-president-if-he-weren’t-Southern deal. The symbol of a bygone (for better or worse; I say better) era. But he symbolizes (and embodies) all that was good about that time, and nothing that was bad.
The boys are irrelevant as far I’m concerned.
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Cleveland Gary.
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Neyland or Vaught.
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Marcus Lattimore.
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David Pollack.
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