most over-rated msu recruit of all time
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He could punt the hell out of the football except against NC in the Peach Bowl because they blocked 2 of them.
Todd Jordan was the best practice quarterback in NCAA history. It's not his fault that actual games made him **** his pants and start throwing the ball to the other team. (This is the only way I can explain him always coming out of Spring practice as the #1 QB only to be benched halfway through the first game of the season).saddawg said:
No, he was recruited as a QB. If I remember right, we played QB his true freshman year vs Bama in B'ham. I believe that was is his first action of that year too. Could anyone image bringing in Russell for a few plays vs Bama this year? Anyway, He redshirted during the 90 season. Then Jackie brought in Watson Brown. Brown installed the option. The QB position then needed an athlete instead of a pocket passer.
He was pretty damn good his senior year under Arians and before the team quit. Have I told y'all the story on that team/that year? Haha.
He was pretty damn good his senior year under Arians and before the team quit. Have I told y'all the story on that team/that year? Haha.
I do remember being in the bathroom during the first game in 91 and some old fart was complaining how much better Jordan was than Sleepy. I was like **** we are up 28 in the first half. In 93 I do remember Taite emerging. I want to say he played most of the games toward the end of the season even with the alleged rape incident.[b said:
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I have got to say that I wanted more from Dontae but he sure gave us some wins in the 2000 year. Seeing him and Zo both get 100 yards vs UF was priceless.
I had forgotten about him. He was a national blue-chipper everyone in the country wanted and turned out terrible. Add that to the fact that he was one of the only little brothers who followed their older brother (Sean) to school here, and it's a double "We are Em-State."
Does that count for this poll? If it's only for guys who made it into a State uniform, I'll go with Marvin Byrdsong. Actually, the Byrdsong brothers make the Morgan brothers look like Mannings.
Category 1- WTH happened? I've got to go with Marvin Byrdsong here. This was a Parade AA, he had the size, he was wanted by pretty much everyone and then he did nothing. I think he started as a freshman, and I kept waiting for him to get better, and it just never happened, and he eventually was Croomed.
Category 2- WTH happened after your Fr. and So. years? Has to go to Dontae Walker. He looked like an NFL RB in high school and then for two years at State, and then they opened that damn Barnhill's.
Category 3- Breakin' the law, breakin' the law! Richard Burch. This guy again had NFL size and possibly NFL talent. He was the son of a minister. And then he got busted for marijuana, got Croomed because of it, went to Valley for a year, and then went to jail.
Category 4- Breakin the law, Al Capone style. Nick Turner. Counterfeiting money? Seriously? Why? The best part about that whole fiasco was some Ole Miss fan running up to tell me that Joe Lee Dunn and four of the defensive players at MSU were counterfeiting money. After I heard that, I laughed. What else are you going to do when you hear something like that?
Category 5- Rusty Linton Memorial Award for Advances in Medical Excellence (shaped like a hacksaw and sponsored by Milwaukee tools) Ray Ray Bivines. A career ending hamstring injury? WTF?
Category 6- Chose to focus on the relationship instead of football because his girlfriend was more important than some silly game award sponsered by eHarmony.com- John Micheal Marlin.
Category 7- The Bronze Star- Awarded to Kevin Fant for the fact that while he never totally lived up to his promise, he earned his scholarship. He showed us glimpses of hope against Ole Miss in 2001, and then it all hit the fan, including not having an o-line, allowing teams to tee off on him, and having a receiving corp that sucked, and Jackie Sherrill's insistance on using Dontae instead of Norwood because "Norwood needed to work on his blocking" (Yeah, so did the o-line, and you kept playing them to), Johnnigmeir getting his panties in a wad because Fant needed to buy some tires, and Jackie Sherrill forcing him to run a QB sneak for no logical reason against Troy (State) causing him to injure his ankle and make him even more of a sitting target. I bet Fant still wakes up at night and screams after having nightmares about LB's about to tee off on him.
Category 8- We don't want to claim you either- Tommy Kelly.
Category 9- Really, you're embarassing yourself trying to act like Fred Smoot. Please stop. Korey Banks.
Category 2- WTH happened after your Fr. and So. years? Has to go to Dontae Walker. He looked like an NFL RB in high school and then for two years at State, and then they opened that damn Barnhill's.
Category 3- Breakin' the law, breakin' the law! Richard Burch. This guy again had NFL size and possibly NFL talent. He was the son of a minister. And then he got busted for marijuana, got Croomed because of it, went to Valley for a year, and then went to jail.
Category 4- Breakin the law, Al Capone style. Nick Turner. Counterfeiting money? Seriously? Why? The best part about that whole fiasco was some Ole Miss fan running up to tell me that Joe Lee Dunn and four of the defensive players at MSU were counterfeiting money. After I heard that, I laughed. What else are you going to do when you hear something like that?
Category 5- Rusty Linton Memorial Award for Advances in Medical Excellence (shaped like a hacksaw and sponsored by Milwaukee tools) Ray Ray Bivines. A career ending hamstring injury? WTF?
Category 6- Chose to focus on the relationship instead of football because his girlfriend was more important than some silly game award sponsered by eHarmony.com- John Micheal Marlin.
Category 7- The Bronze Star- Awarded to Kevin Fant for the fact that while he never totally lived up to his promise, he earned his scholarship. He showed us glimpses of hope against Ole Miss in 2001, and then it all hit the fan, including not having an o-line, allowing teams to tee off on him, and having a receiving corp that sucked, and Jackie Sherrill's insistance on using Dontae instead of Norwood because "Norwood needed to work on his blocking" (Yeah, so did the o-line, and you kept playing them to), Johnnigmeir getting his panties in a wad because Fant needed to buy some tires, and Jackie Sherrill forcing him to run a QB sneak for no logical reason against Troy (State) causing him to injure his ankle and make him even more of a sitting target. I bet Fant still wakes up at night and screams after having nightmares about LB's about to tee off on him.
Category 8- We don't want to claim you either- Tommy Kelly.
Category 9- Really, you're embarassing yourself trying to act like Fred Smoot. Please stop. Korey Banks.
Started his freshman and sophmore year but then flunked out of school. If only we had the LSU/UT tutors he would be in the NFL right now.
We did run the triple option part of his time at MSU.
He was recruited to play in a pro style offense.
When he got on campus we ran the option for 2 years.
We then went back to a pro style offense.
He was recruited to play in a pro style offense.
When he got on campus we ran the option for 2 years.
We then went back to a pro style offense.
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