All Pelini Team

[Cdog923]

Since it’s the offseason, I’d like to try something; I did this a few years ago at a different forum and had some success with it. I’m going to introduce voting for the All Pelini Team. We’ll look at each positions and choose an all star team based on players who started a majority of the time or had their largest contributions at Nebraska under Coach Pelini, with number of games started being the tiebreaker. For example: Joe Ganz was recruited by and spent 4 years at Nebraska under Bill Callahan. However, a majority of his impact was as a starting QB under Bo Pelini. Therefore, he is slotted for voting under Team Pelini.

 

Positions will be based on an 11 personnel package. Therefore, when it comes that time, you’ll be voting for 1 RB, 1 TE and 3 WRs. All stats and accolades will be from Huskers.com and Sports Reference. Voting for each position will be open for a week, after which results will be tallied.

 

Our first position is QB. You may vote for 1.

 

Joe Ganz: 16 starts

• Passing: 381/585 (65.1%), 5,125 yards, 44 TDs, 18 Ints

• Rushing: 115 attempts, 341 yards (3 yards/carry), 8 TDs

 

     Honors and Awards:

• Holds 23 Nebraska School Records

• NU Single-Game Record Holder for Passing Yards (510),

• Total Offense (528) and Passing TDs (7)

• Nebraska Season Record Holder for Passing Yards,

• Pass Completions and Total Offense

• Second at Nebraska in Career Passing Yards and Touchdown Passes

• 2008 First-Team Academic All-Big 12

• Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week (2007 vs. Kansas State; 2008 vs. Kansas State)

• 2008 Tom Novak Trophy Winner

• 2008 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Watch List

• Four-Time Big 12 Commissioner's Spring Academic Honor Roll (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)

• Three-Time Big 12 Commissioner’s Fall Academic Honor Roll (2005, 2007, 2008)

• 2008 Brook Berringer Citizenship Team

• 2004 Nebraska Offensive Scout Team MVP

 

Zac Lee: 12 starts

• Passing: 189/324 (58%), 2,250 yards, 14 TDs, 10 INTs

• Rushing: 120 attempts, 245 yards, 1 TD

 

     Honors and Awards:

• First-Team Academic All-Big 12 (2009, 2010)

• Big 12 Commissioner’s Fall Academic Honor Roll (2008, 2009, 2010)

• Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Academic Honor Roll (2008, 2009, 2010)

• Brook Berringer Citizenship Team (2010)

• Scout Team Offensive MVP (2007)

 

Cody Green: 4 starts

• Passing: 66/122 (54%), 657 yards, 5 TDs, 3 INTs

• Rushing: 68 att, 254 yards, 3 TDs

 

     Honors and Awards:

• 2010 Big 12 Commissioner’s Fall Academic Honor Roll

• 2010 Brook Berringer Citizenship Team

 

Taylor Martinez: 43 starts

• Passing: 575/962 (60%), 7,258 yards, 56 TDs, 29 Ints

• Rushing: 585 att, 2,975 yards, 31 TDs

 

     Honors and Awards: 

• Manning Award Watch List (2013)

• Davey O’Brien Award Watch List (2013)

• Walter Camp Award Watch List (2013)

• Nebraska Team Captain (1 of 6, 2013)

• Nebraska Team Captain (1 of 5, 2012)

• First-Team All-Big Ten (Coaches, 2012)

• Second-Team All-Big Ten (Media, Phil Steele, 2012)

• Chicago Tribune Silver Football Finalist (1 of 3, 2012)

• AT&T National Player of the Week (vs. Southern Miss, 2012, vs. Ohio State, 2011)

• Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (So. Miss, Wis., N’western, Michigan St., 2012, vs. Ohio State, 2011)

• Nebraska Career Total Offense Record Holder (10,233 yards)

• Nebraska Career Passing Yards Record Holder (7,258 yards)

• Nebraska Career Completions Record Holder (575)

• Nebraska Career Touchdown Passes Record Holder (56)

• Nebraska Career Starts by a Quarterback Record Holder (43)

• Nebraska Season Total Offense Record Holder (3,890 yards, 2012)

• Nebraska Season Total Touchdowns Record Holder (33, 2012)

• Nebraska Game Completion Percentage Record Holder (91.9 vs. Arkansas State, 2012)

• Nebraska Team MVP (2012)

• Nebraska Offensive MVP (2012)

• School Record Holder Total Offense By a Sophomore (2,963 yards, 2011)

• First-Team Freshman All-American (Rivals.com, 2010)

• Second-Team Freshman All-American (CollegeFootballNews.com, 2010)

• Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year (Coaches, Rivals.com, 2010)

• Big 12 Offensive Newcomer of the Year (AP, Dallas Morning News, Kansas City Star, San Antonio News-Express, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2010)

• Honorable-Mention All-Big 12 (Coaches, AP, 2010)

• Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award Semifinalist (2010)

• Maxwell Award Semifinalist (2010)

• Walter Camp National Player of the Week (at Oklahoma State, 2010)

• Rivals.com National Freshman of the Week (WKU, UW, KSU, OSU, 2010)

• Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week (at KSU, at OSU, 2010)

• School Record Holder Total Offense By a Freshman (2,596 yards, 2010)

• School Record Single-Game Rushing Yards by a Quarterback (241 at KSU, 2010)

 

Edited January 9, 2018 by Cdog923

[Cdog923]

This seems like one of the no brainers; you have one of the statistically most successful QBs in school history and a guy who set a lot of those passing records just a few years before. 

[suh_fan93]

Ganz easily for me.  Taylor was a great running quarterback but that throwing motion, the fumbles and the too often poor decision making were all frustrating and at times unbearable to watch.  

[Xmas32]

18 minutes ago, suh_fan93 said:

Ganz easily for me.  Taylor was a great running quarterback but that throwing motion, the fumbles and the too often poor decision making were all frustrating and at times unbearable to watch.  

 

Yeah I voted Ganz as well.  One of the fun hypotheticals I end up getting into with my friends is whether Nebraska would've won the MNC with Ganz in '09.  I think Nebraska would've had a pretty good shot given that Alabama struggled to put away Texas despite knocking Colt McCoy out of the game early.  On a side note, that game is still the biggest amount of money I've ever lost betting on a football game.  I think Texas was +4 or +4.5 and while I was able to get a little bit back betting Texas in the 2H, I think I might've thrown up after I watched McCoy get knocked out.

[Cdog923]

1 minute ago, Xmas32 said:

 

Yeah I voted Ganz as well.  One of the fun hypotheticals I end up getting into with my friends is whether Nebraska would've won the MNC with Ganz in '09.  I think Nebraska would've had a pretty good shot given that Alabama struggled to put away Texas despite knocking Colt McCoy out of the game early.  On a side note, that game is still the biggest amount of money I've ever lost betting on a football game.  I think Texas was +4 or +4.5 and while I was able to get a little bit back betting Texas in the 2H, I think I might've thrown up after I watched McCoy get knocked out.

 

I've always thought that if you pair the '08 Offense with the '09 Defense, Nebraska is in the discussion for the national title. 

[BIG ERN]

I get the 08' defense wasn't that good, but what is Ganz best win....7-6 Clemson??

[Cdog923]

8 minutes ago, BIG ERN said:

I get the 08' defense wasn't that good, but what is Ganz best win....7-6 Clemson??

 

Boy, do I have a thread for you: 

 

[irafreak]

Gotta go with Ganz as well. Martinez was a highlight reel but the good teams could slow him down. Ganz was steadier and would compliment a Bo defense better.

[Redux]

Not to be THAT guy, but I did this a while back:

 

 

 

This has the results

 

[Husker from Kansas]

TMart. Dude was a game changer unlike anyone we had after crouch, and in all honesty while I think TA was a good QB, he wasn't the game changer that TMagic was. Not to mention he got the hell beat out of him, and gave his absolute all to our program. Dude was an NFL caliber athlete who gave so much to our program that he couldn't pass a physical to be in the league. 

[junior4949]

Personally, I really don't think of Ganz or Lee as being Pelini QBs considering he isn't the one who recruited them.  They were simply here when he got here.  When I think of Pelini QBs, I think of TM and TA.  Both were pretty good, but the nod probably goes to TM.

[Cdog923]

19 minutes ago, Redux said:

Not to be THAT guy, but I did this a while back:

 

 

 

This has the results

 

 

Damn it! I did a search and these didn't come up. 

[suh_fan93]

I do think it would have been neat to see TM behind one of those great Husker offensive lines.  That dude had a burst and could keep his speed on long runs.  He was fun to watch when he was running free.

[Kiyoat Husker]

34 minutes ago, Cdog923 said:

 

Damn it! I did a search and these didn't come up. 

 

Look at the date, though.  I'm a firm believer in polls being time-dependent.  Two years is definitely enough of a temporal difference to qualify as a different set of data.  Interesting that it was Jan 5-9, though.  Same season almost exactly.

 

Will be interesting to compare.

[Kiyoat Husker]

On 1/9/2018 at 1:13 PM, suh_fan93 said:

Ganz easily for me.  Taylor was a great running quarterback but that throwing motion, the fumbles and the too often poor decision making were all frustrating and at times unbearable to watch.  

 

Agree.  Ganz was one of those guys that just had all the intangibles.  Great decision-making, leadership, field vision, elusiveness, etc.  I think he would have been just as good playing in Beck's offense.