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re: Longest droughts without a 1,000 yd receiver
Posted on 3/12/26 at 6:32 am to DawgsLife
Posted on 3/12/26 at 6:32 am to DawgsLife
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One of my favorite players that played for Auburn. Pat Sullivan to Terry Beasley was fun to watch. I might be misremembering, but it seems they were both in the running for the Heisman? Is that right, or am I older than I thought I was?
ETA Just looked it up, and apparently I am older than i thought. Don't see Beasley anywhere in the Heisman voting. He was still one of my favorite receivers.
I read an article that said he could jump over a car speeding at him flat footed.
Dont know if that is true or not but it's a damned shame his legend doesn't reach further.
The athleticism and toughness he had in the prime football days when everything goes to make a tackle doesnt get talked about enough. He lived very dark days after football dealing with CTE.
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Posted on 3/12/26 at 7:00 am to jangalang
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He lived very dark days after football dealing with CTE.
Did not know this. hate to hear it. Oddly enough there were several Auburn players I enjoyed watching. Sullivan, Beasley, Bo (of course), Takeo Spikes
After Auburn, LSU probably had more of my favorites, but part of that was because I was born in Baton Rouge, and had relatives that graduated from there. While living in BTR, George Rice was a family friend, and he would wrestle around the floor with me and my brothers.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:24 am to DawgsLife
Many days of seizures...He ended up marrying a psychiatric nurse if that tells you his shape at all.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:27 am to FAT SEXY
That game was Sumlin's demise.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:33 am to DawgsLife
He went into great detail about the issues he was dealing with in an autobiography that came out in 1999. It’s an inspirational but *very* cautionary tale.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:56 am to AGGIES
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Seems like an insignificant stat. Considering UGA being one of the oldest on the list really destroys the correlation between success and 1,000 yd receiver.
Or maybe Georgia is the data outlier not on the curve…are you an idiot or just trying to make yourself feel better about a&m being on the list…or both?
Posted on 3/12/26 at 9:30 am to Crimson Wraith
Good Lord, Jordan Matthews for Vandy was 13 years ago? I refuse to believe that.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 9:44 am to Solo Cam
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AJ Green never got a thousand yards? That's insane considering he has Stafford.
they were only together for 1 season in 2008. Even though his talent was obvious, Richt was never the kind of coach to rack up meaningless stats just to pump up a guy's resume. Prime example- in AJ's first 2 career games we played GA Southern and Central Michigan. If we WANTED to, we could've thrown it to him 15 times and let him put up video game numbers. But instead he caught 5 total passes for 80 yards, combined. He simply wasn't needed in those blowouts, not ot mention we had an upperclasman Knowshon Moreno to feed as well. Once conference play started AJ averaged 90 YPG.
In 2009 he had joe cox at QB and also missed 3 games, but still put up over 800 yards.
In 2010 he had a wildly inconsistent Freshman at QB and was suspended 4 games, yet also still put up over 800 yards.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 9:58 am to lsufball19
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did AJ Green never have a 1000 yard season?
It's mind boggling, but sadly true.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:35 am to jangalang
Wow. Sounds like he is doing well now, though, so that's good. Thanks for catching me up. I lose track of players once they leave college. I don't watch or follow the NFL anymore, so it's good when I get caught up on some people.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:41 am to Bigbens42
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He went into great detail about the issues he was dealing with in an autobiography that came out in 1999. It’s an inspirational but *very* cautionary tale.
I played a little footbal along, long time ago. I used to love to hit, and would seek out contact both in practices and in games. It was pretty normal back then to lead with your helmet and i would go helmet to helmet more often than not just tohave hard contact with what seemed like a harmless thing. Years later I had headaches and went to the doctor and he said I had bone chips in my neck, and had I hit someone wrong, could have been paralyzed. I thought he would wnat to remove the bone chips, but he said they has fused themselves to my spinal column in my neck and could be dangerous to fool with them now.
The things we do in our youth affect us for the rest of our lives, sometimes!
Posted on 3/12/26 at 2:01 pm to Crimson Wraith
It is kind of ironic that Auburn is the team that has had the longest drought on this list...
Yet they had just had Cam Coleman who according to his worth on the open market is considered potentially a generational receiver.
And now he isn't going to achieve that status at Auburn.
Yet they had just had Cam Coleman who according to his worth on the open market is considered potentially a generational receiver.
And now he isn't going to achieve that status at Auburn.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 2:14 pm to AUstar
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What surprises me more is Florida hasn't had one since 2002, the year Spurrier left. I figured Meyer or Mullen would have done it.
Both ran run heavy spread schemes outside of one year at MSU for Mullen (2015.)
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