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Sports 'journalists' (Who Don't Work For ESPN)

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buckeyemania11 said:
PFF with some more heaping click bait garbage

"Ranking the top 20 college football head coaches"

Ryan Day is not even listed.

But fucking Lance Leopold from Kansas is :lol:

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I saw "hot takes" and figured it must be a parody account. It's not. :lol:



He makes more tweets trying to rag on OSU than he does about UM. #RentFree
 
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LovelandBuckeye said:
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9 Buckeyes out of 22.

And that’s without Jim Parker, John Hicks, Randy Gradishar, Mike Doss, Cris Carter, Bill Willis, James Laurinaitis, Tom Cousineau, A.J. Hawk, Andy Katzenmoyer, Chic Harley, Jim Stillwagon, Bob Ferguson, Terry Glenn, Antoine Winfield, Malcolm Jenkins, Shawn Springs, and a few others who could be reasonably considered, AND without any of these guys who won the Heisman:

Troy Smith, Eddie George, Archie Griffin, Hopalong Cassady, Vic Janowicz, and Les Horvath.
 
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colobuck79 said:
I seem to recall that Dick Butkus could play a little also.
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Indeed. As the human race continues to get bigger, stronger, and faster (why is a discussion for another forum) in order to properly honor players of the past you have to look at how dominant they were in their time.

Butkus was hands down the most dominant linebacker of the 60s. There is a reason that the award for the best linebacker in college football is named for him. In fact, there are very few linebackers that were as dominant in their decade in the entire history of the sport. If I had to name one, it would not be someone from the 90s; it would probably be another Illinois linebacker, Ray Nitschke.

Nitschke played in the 50s, and even in that decade he was a throwback. He never wore a facemask. Against Ohio State in 1956 he took a helmet to the face on the opening kickoff. His four front teeth were knocked out. He played the rest of the game. More impressive things have been done in cfb history, this is far from the only thing that defines him, it's just an example of who and what he was.

(Edit I: The good guys beat the Illini 26-6 that day)
(Edit II: No other team scored >20 points against Nitschke's defense at Memorial Stadium that year. (Washington scored 28 out in Seattle))
 
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