Beano Cook Will Flip if He Sees This
College Football, Media Gossip/Musings January 4th. 2008, 11:56am
SI.com has a pretty rad feature up this week - the best players in college football history … by numbers. Deion Sanders, according to SI, is the best player in college football history to wear No. 2. Understandable.
But at No. 5, SI chose Reggie Bush … which might make sense to whippersnappers, until you look at who the runner-up was: Notre Dame living legend Paul Hornung. Has Beano Cook been made aware of this? It’s probably a good idea to hide it from the old coot. He will not be pleased.
Other ruminations: nice perm, Dan Marino, the Rocket got the shaft, Herschel > Bo?, no Michael Irvin (!), and is Merlin Olsen still announcing? Loved when he worked with Bob Trumpy on NBC in the 80s.
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January 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
SMU with *two* on the list: Dickerson (#19) and Doak Walker (#37). Nice.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
You mean SMU with everyone good who ever played there, on the list.
I loved Merlin Olsen as well. Not the football, the FTD commercials.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Herschel averaged 1,700 yds and 18 TDs a year. That’s pretty sick. Bo was sick too, but Herschel had pneumonia.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Hornung got the trophy on, what, a 3-8 team? Bush got his Heisman because of what he did to Fresno State.
As Nick Bakay would say, PUSH
January 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Remember this was a college thing not an all-time thing. Herschel in college was a better player than Bo Jackson. In the NFL we saw Herschel enter the league after the USFL and be a good back not a great back. BO played a few years and at the height of his career went down with an injury and never played again. The potential of Bo is remembered more than the actual career and maybe that is why we think higher of Bo. Herschel Walker in 1980 was the best College RB of all-time..period. I have never seen Paul Hornung play but he played for a losing Notre Dame team and his popularity was better than his play (as I have read) while Reggie played for a winning team and his popularity was better than his play..edge for Reggie..he won games.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
yeah, reggie bush over paul hornung jumped out at me. so did this:
no. 31. the runner up was penn state linebacker shane conlon. while conlon was great, another penn state linebacker wearing no. 31 eclipsed all of conlon’s marks and was deemed “the best linebacker in penn state history” by none other than jack hamm.
who was that? paul posluszny.
i just thought it was interesting that the runner-up for no. 31 wasn’t even the best no. 31 at the same position at the same school.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
the two best college running backs i ever saw were billy sims and herschel walker.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Barry Sanders doesn’t make that list?
January 4th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Yes, he did.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I recall Dick Enberg being paired w/ Merlin Olson. The greatest announcing team in NFL history.
Trumpy’s partner in those days was Don Criqui.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Staubach over Leak?
Verne Lundquist sez hold on a second.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I still don’t get why on that Top 25 college players list Reggie Bush is on there but neither Ron Dayne nor Ricky Williams are…just how many yards, Heismans and (in Dayne’s case) Rose Bowl MVP’s does a player need to win in order to beat out a guy who didn’t even get the ball on his team’s biggest play
January 4th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I guess you are right hercules. So Trumpy was the color guy?
I have always liked Don Criqui. Most underrated ntwork announcer over the last 20 years IMO.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Yeah, Trumpy and Olsen were both color guys.
I like Criqui a lot too.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Because Reggie looked like a man against boys against a team that lost back-to-back games to Nevada and Louisiana Tech after they played USC.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Yes! Don Criqui was fantastic.
What was the team - Criqui and Olsen?
And Dick Enberg (in his prime) and Trumpy?
January 4th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Dornoch: Kyle Rote, Craig James, Don Meredith….three more good players from three different generations who played at SMU. Bite me.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
no Lawrence Taylor at 56, thats a shame right there
LT was the man at Chapel Hill
January 4th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
This list makes me want to punch things.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Irish..No 56 for LT because he wore 98 in college.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
TBL - it was Enberg-Olson and Criqui-Trumpy.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
well arent i stupid as always huh roman
January 4th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Is it wrong to say that I would probably wear an OJ USC throwback if I got my hands on one?
January 4th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
narrator…no, and if you find one, tell me where you got it.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Isn’t Don Criqui now relegated to calling all of CBS’ lousy games now?
I always enjoy listening to him, don’t remember him in his prime
January 4th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
SI screwed over Mean Joe Greene twice:
1. Put him behind Orlando Pace at #75.
2. Forgot an “e” on his name.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
He is cbh and I never understood it. Guess they would rather send Ian Eagle, Gus Johnson or Kevin Harlan to the game so they can yell at us for 3 1/2 hours.
Glad to see others are Criqui fans. He has a great sense of humor as well. Too bad he gets such awful games. Handles them like a pro though.
ms621, is SMU even a real school? Dexter Manley has a better grasp of the language than Dickerson.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Do you think Dickerson ever went to class? Good christ, I hear a rumor when I was a student that one of the ways he was ‘compensated’ was he was given a phony student job: turning on the sprinklers of the practice field every morning. For which he was paid around $400/hour. And he never even did it. I put forth great SMU players, I never said anything about their own personal intelligence. Craig James, for one, makes me cringe every Thursday night and Saturday afternoon during college football season. Of course his smugness kind of overshadows everything else.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I see Eric Turner on the list. Never forget when he was playing for the Browns and was on the air with the Fabulous Sports Babe. She asked him, “where is this team, right now, as they prepare to face the Steelers?”
Well he took the question literally and responded by saying that Cleveland was such and such miles from Pittsburgh and that it was located in Ohio near a big lake. HA HA HA.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Irish..don’t feel bad my knowledge for the subject stems from walking around the parking lot at Giant Stadium hammered and checking out other people’s jerseys. The throwback UNC Taylor 98 is worn by some and it is a sweet jersey.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
As an SMU grad twice over — hell yeah it’s a real school. They have just sucked at football since 1987 (and basketball since 1994).
Dickerson made more money at SMU than he ever did in the pros…
January 4th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Jerryl Sasser was the man!
January 4th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
#27: Eddie George
Go tOSU
January 4th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
But grungedave, I can report the soccer team still kicks ass for whatever that’s worth.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Monday Night Football paid him a lot of money to mumble his already jumbled thoughts.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Word is he never cashed any of those checks. To him it was just a small strip of paper that had no round black and white picture of some old dude in the middle. He figured they were reciepts and threw them out.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
TBL: The teams were Don Criqui and Bob Trumpy and the other, No. 1 team was Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Reggie Bush was the best player in the land on a team defending it’s National championship. Paul Hornung was the best player on a team that went 3-8, and who only won the Heisman because Rednecks didn’t want to give the Heisman to the best player in the country, Jim Brown. Reggie Bush over Paul Hornung by a landslide.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Darrell, while I agree Reggie was better than Hornung…the best player in the land the year Reggie won the Heisman was Vince Young, hell he wasn’t the best RB on his team in my opinion…LenDale White was more important to that team than Reggie Bush…Reggie just gave you the highlights.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Ron Powlus was robbed!!!!!
January 4th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
He still has his three Heismans.
- Beano Cooke