Hugh Green voted best all-time defensive player

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Postby billybud » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:55 pm

Nope...LT was ..a rare combination of speed, brawn and mean.

I remember Green and the 1978 Pitt/FSU game...a 7-3 defensive thriller....FSU beat Pitt and Hugh Green his senior year...36-22.
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Postby billybud » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:04 pm

FSU had no problem with Green....scored 36 points..won the game in his greatest year.
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Postby mountainman » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:10 pm

I don't have a clue who was the best ... lots of good ones. I can say that Bruce Smith from Virginia Tech has to be in there somewhere. That guy was so dominating that he would make offensive coordinator change their game plan to avoid his area of responsibility. :D

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Postby billybud » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:37 am

That 1980 Pitt team was good...they went undefeated in 1980 except for their 36-22 loss to FSU...I watched that game at Doak with my wife. Green was not a factor. Mark May was a member of that Pitt squad.

The following year, 1981, was the year of FSU's infamous "Octoberfest"...

@ Nebraska
@ Ohio State
@ Notre Dame
@ Pittsburgh
@ LSU

Dan Marino repayed the 1980 loss by killing FSU in Pitt....a game that wasn't televised in Tallahassee (it was 1981).
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Postby billybud » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:08 am

You know...you almost have to separate by era....Butkus was a monster in his day...he had no peer.

And only Rolltide may even recall his name...but the hero of my youth, Lee Roy Jordan, was the southern linebacker of his era.

The full integration of the black athlete in the post 1965 years, changed the complexion (pun intended) of college football.

I would have to think in terms of the era......
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Postby billybud » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:18 am

Lee Roy Jordan was small for a MLB (he went about 215 in the pro's) but his 30 tackles against Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl was one of the great performances by a defender.
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Postby Derek » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:52 pm

Current Era....David Pollack. :lol:

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Postby Spence » Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:25 am

It is hard to pick an overall defensive player, all time, but I would pick Jack Tatum. He was a baaaad man!
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Postby billybud » Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:35 pm

Hacksaw Reynolds was a mean son of a gun at LB....he was raised down the road from Tallahassee..legend has it that his nickname came from sawing a car in half after a tough loss...

Hacksaw Reynolds and Jack Youngblood made one of the fiercest LB duo's in the pro's.
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Postby Spence » Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:30 pm

I agree with Youngblood and Reynolds. Ham and Lambert were a good pair also.
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Postby Spence » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:26 pm

billybud wrote:Nope...LT was ..a rare combination of speed, brawn and mean.


Taylor would probably be my pick also, at least most talented.

Being a Buckeye, I would throw Jack Tatum into the mix. He wasn't as good all around as Taylor, but pound for pound the assassin was the hardest hitting player in football. Tatum's philosophy of, wrapping them up and hitting them all the way to the ground is how coaches teach tackling today. He played with no mercy.
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Postby openSkies » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:35 am

I can't believe no one has mentioned Bruce Smith yet =]
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Postby mountainman » Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:18 am

mountainman wrote:I don't have a clue who was the best ... lots of good ones. I can say that Bruce Smith from Virginia Tech has to be in there somewhere. That guy was so dominating that he would make offensive coordinator change their game plan to avoid his area of responsibility. :D


I did .... the Mountaineers had to play against that guy. :lol:

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Postby Spence » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:21 pm

Bruce Smith belongs.
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