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.
Hugh Green voted best all-time defensive player
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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).
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).
“If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.”
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......
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......
“If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.”
Current Era....David Pollack. 
What did you expect??
What did you expect??
They’re either going to run the ball here or their going to pass it.
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands.
- John Madden
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands.
- John Madden
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.
Hacksaw Reynolds and Jack Youngblood made one of the fiercest LB duo's in the pro's.
“If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.”
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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.
"History doesn't always repeat itself but it often rhymes." - Mark Twain
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mountainman
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.
I did .... the Mountaineers had to play against that guy.
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