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re: Most talented football player to go to waste from your favorite team?
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:39 am to TupeloReb
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:39 am to TupeloReb
Rolando McClain. Dude was a muh fuggin beast in college. He was nasty, physical and a vocal leader on the team. However, he was a major bust in the NFL. Props to him going back to bama to finish his degree. He is still my favorite player in the Saban era. So sad to see his NFL career turn out the way it did.
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Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:39 am to PepaSpray
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Reuben randle
That's who I was thinking of as well. It would have been fun to watch him play with a half decent QB.
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:40 am to danfraz
Kenneth Hall.
Playing for the Sugar Land High School Gators (Sugar Land, Texas) from 1950 to 1953, Hall established 17 national football records, several of which still stand over 50 years later.
Hall's career prep rushing record of 11,232 yards (1950: 569 yd; 1951: 3,160 yd; 1952: 3,458 yd; 1953: 4,045 yd) stood until Nov. 16, 2012, while his 32.9 points per game (1953/12) is still a national record. His record of 38 one hundred-yard games was tied by Steve Worster in 1966, but wasn't broken until the mid-1980s by Emmitt Smith, which was recently broken by Rushel Shell of Hopewell High School in Pennsylvania. Hall also finished his career with 14,558 yards of total offense (11,232 rushing/3,326 passing), a record that would last until being broken by Nitro (West Virginia) High School's future Major League Baseball player J. R. House in 1998
Then he went off to college at Texas A&M. And he failed. He was a spectacular failure, a lights-out failure, a flameout.
He quit midway through his sophomore year, then begged and cried his way back onto the team for his junior season, but then quit again. He never started a game for the Aggies and didn't letter. The coach didn't like the way Hall didn't block and the way he didn't play defense and, truth be told, the way Hall didn't think the moon was hung on football. Hall wasn't amused by the coach's colorful language and abusive manner.
The coach was Bear Bryant, who when asked the other day what went wrong with Ken Hall, responded, "I don't think anything went wrong with him. It was me. I was stupid. You're a fool to think, as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike. He should have been an All-America for me. With him, we'd have won the National Championship in 1957. Without him, we lost it."
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tl;dr Bear Bryant wasted perhaps the greatest tailback in HS history.
Playing for the Sugar Land High School Gators (Sugar Land, Texas) from 1950 to 1953, Hall established 17 national football records, several of which still stand over 50 years later.
Hall's career prep rushing record of 11,232 yards (1950: 569 yd; 1951: 3,160 yd; 1952: 3,458 yd; 1953: 4,045 yd) stood until Nov. 16, 2012, while his 32.9 points per game (1953/12) is still a national record. His record of 38 one hundred-yard games was tied by Steve Worster in 1966, but wasn't broken until the mid-1980s by Emmitt Smith, which was recently broken by Rushel Shell of Hopewell High School in Pennsylvania. Hall also finished his career with 14,558 yards of total offense (11,232 rushing/3,326 passing), a record that would last until being broken by Nitro (West Virginia) High School's future Major League Baseball player J. R. House in 1998
Then he went off to college at Texas A&M. And he failed. He was a spectacular failure, a lights-out failure, a flameout.
He quit midway through his sophomore year, then begged and cried his way back onto the team for his junior season, but then quit again. He never started a game for the Aggies and didn't letter. The coach didn't like the way Hall didn't block and the way he didn't play defense and, truth be told, the way Hall didn't think the moon was hung on football. Hall wasn't amused by the coach's colorful language and abusive manner.
The coach was Bear Bryant, who when asked the other day what went wrong with Ken Hall, responded, "I don't think anything went wrong with him. It was me. I was stupid. You're a fool to think, as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike. He should have been an All-America for me. With him, we'd have won the National Championship in 1957. Without him, we lost it."
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tl;dr Bear Bryant wasted perhaps the greatest tailback in HS history.
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:41 am to mwlewis
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Jimmy Johns
This is the correct answer.
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:42 am to TupeloReb
Tray Blackmon, Mike Dyer
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:42 am to TupeloReb
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:42 am to Mirthomatic
Crowell for us probably, he had the talent and potential, just soft, lazy and a dumbass.
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:51 am to TupeloReb
AJ Suggs
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:52 am to Lord of the Board
From a college star to pro bust perspective, Troy Williamson gets a nod. Of course the only reason he was taken 7th overall in the NFL draft was his speed; he had the hands of a lamp post.
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:56 am to Mirthomatic
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tl;dr Bear Bryant wasted perhaps the greatest tailback in HS history.
Sorry players from Texas are pussies.
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:56 am to CockHolliday
Robert Ratliff is the correct answer
Posted on 7/5/13 at 9:57 am to TupeloReb
This one is easy for me. Le'ron Mcclain.
Shula never utilized him as a ball carrier and when he did the dude was a battering ram. He was talented enough to get the bulk of the carries for the ravens one year but not talented enough to carry it for shula
Shula never utilized him as a ball carrier and when he did the dude was a battering ram. He was talented enough to get the bulk of the carries for the ravens one year but not talented enough to carry it for shula
Posted on 7/5/13 at 10:02 am to Riseupfromtherubble
He came to mind for me too. Shula is an idiot
Posted on 7/5/13 at 10:07 am to TupeloReb
Cecil Collins. Incredible talent that went down the drain.
Posted on 7/5/13 at 10:15 am to CBandits82
Stephen Garcia or Wesley Saunders
It also would've been great to see Lattimore with a better O-line blocking for him
It also would've been great to see Lattimore with a better O-line blocking for him
Posted on 7/5/13 at 10:20 am to T-boneKing
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Sorry players from Texas are pussies.
It isn't the Texas players who whine and excuse a loss because they were "emotionally and physically drained by a big game last week".
But that's not being fair to Bama's players, I suppose. Maybe it's just the Bama fans that are pussies.
Posted on 7/5/13 at 10:20 am to TupeloReb
I agree Dex could've had a more productive career with better coaching but shite he was also hurt a ton his freshman and sophomore years. Also I gotta correct you on one thing and don't feel bad bc I've had to correct a few fellow Rebs on the topic-
Dexter started lining up at tb in the I during the 2008 game at Arkansas. I was there and remember him moving the chains several times with some hard running and great vision. Actually just looked it up and he had 11 carries for 54 yards.
Dexter started lining up at tb in the I during the 2008 game at Arkansas. I was there and remember him moving the chains several times with some hard running and great vision. Actually just looked it up and he had 11 carries for 54 yards.
Posted on 7/5/13 at 10:24 am to MetryTyger
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Perrilloux Shepard Mahthieu (sort of) Wing (sort of) But above all of these, Cecil Collins.
this
Posted on 7/5/13 at 10:27 am to Riseupfromtherubble
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This one is easy for me. Le'ron Mcclain.
Him and Prothro are the only two correct answers for UA in recent memory. Shula had no fricking clue how to use Le'Ron and he literally ruined Prothro's career because he's a fricking imbecile.
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