how long can records last after 5/5?

If a player is that good that they put up big numbers year in and out, they will not be there for 5 years.

Derrick Henry should hold every rushing record in the SEC, but he mostly sat on the bench his first couple of years with us. Now, it isn't like he was sitting behind chumps - we were beyond stacked at RB during those years - but still, we're talking about Derrick fricking Henry. It was obvious whenever he did see the field that he was the best back on the team. If he had started his entire career with us as he should have, the question of who was the #1 RB in SEC history wouldn't even be a question.

Most of the elite athletes who rack up numbers to challenge these records won't be around 5 years, anyway. I'd guess some Bowling Green/FAU level players will be the most likely to be a threat.

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sat on the bench his first couple of years

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Hershel only played 3 years.

With the transfers you have to play multiple people arlt most positions besides prob QB and Special Teams now

Any SEC player that approaches breaking the interceptions or sacks mark will be in the NFL before year five, no question. Furthermore, no one is going to throw at a DB who already has 19 picks. So these records tend to protect themselves.

Rushing yards will be very difficult to get that amount without the NFL knocking. Especially with how things have become more of a running back by committee.

Tackles will be really hard. These aren't the old days where you can get 20 tackles a game as an MLB just stopping three yard dives. But, at the same time averaging 110 tackles a year isn't necessarily NFL worthy. It is vulnerable to being broken and will mostly require injury luck.

Of the remaining, I think passing yards can be most easily broken with a five-year starter that never receives NFL attention. Receiving yards will be most easily broken by an elite player in three years on a team that regularly runs deep in the playoffs ...especially with how they keep expanding it.

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Derrick Henry barely saw the field in 2013 because Saban didn't care how talented of a RB you were; if you couldn't block for the QB, you were all but useless to him.

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The main differences imo are that Herschel had 400 more carries to put up those flashy career totals, and Henry had 15 games to put up that flashy 2000 yard season. On a per carry basis, Henry had a higher average YPC, but Herschel beats him on a per game basis.


Since I'm a UGA fan I'll give you the homer take for Herschel over Henry - #1. Herschel came in and carried the team as a freshman, while most of Henry's stats came as a Junior with 2 years of practice time under his belt. That's big & it's also why his rate stats look better than Herschel.

#2. The 80s UGA teams were great, but also well below the talent level that was blocking for Derrick Henry. Herschel also didn't have a WR like Calvin Ridley to stretch the defense for him. That's going to help the rate stats again, which are the main things he has going for him over Walker.

Honestly though I'm a big Derrick Henry fan too. I was too young to see Herschel play and have long considered Henry to be the second coming. I've always put them in that same top tier along with Bo Jackson.

If Coach Leach had lived then Will Rogers would have broken the passing record.
And possibly would have been so high that might have never been broken.
As it was he was still over 14 grand total between State & Washington.

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Total Tackles: Andy Spiva Tennessee (1973–1976) 547 tackles

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damn!!! that one seems nearly impossible.