Vince young wouldn't belong on this list even if he had played in Lincoln, or at least he wouldn't belong in the top ten. He was a great QB, but not that great.
The best player I ever watched play here was Barry Sanders. That guy was flat out amazing. But we still beat his butt every year.
Red Grange has to be in your top two. I never saw him, but by all accounts he was an incredible player.
True but back then Husker fans thought Ken Clark was a better runningback. :facepalm:
Why do you care what some tiny minority of uninformed fans thought? What an odd comment.
It wasn't a tiny minority back then it was the majority. I'm not excluding myself from that group either. If I remember right Nebraska fans used the score against Barry Sanders as a reason for Ken being a better player. The fact that Nebraska line was so much better then Okie state line might have more to do with Clark having better yards that game.
:facepalm: <<<<<< this was for how myopic Nebraska fans can be when they compare former and current Huskers on the team to other teams.
Barry Sanders only started one year at OSU - his Heisman year in 1988. His first two years there he backed up Thurman Thomas. So that means that Ken Clark and Sanders would really only have been compared with each other that year.
In 1988 Sanders rushed for 2,850 yards, with 3,461 all-purpose yards and 37 rushing TDs. He torched team after team, including Nebraska; although we won the game 63-42, Sanders rushed for 189 yards and 4 TDs.
In 1988 Ken Clark had 1,500 yards and 12 TDs. Against OSU he ran for 256 yards and 3 TDs. Clark was good, but you had to have been talking to the most uninformed fans in all Huskerdom if they really, truly thought Clark was even comparable to Sanders. It's difficult to imagine people watching the two run and thinking they were close in skill.
Here are the highlights of their head-to-head game. Sanders doesn't come into the action until 4:15 goes by, but it's well worth watching the first four minutes just to see Steve Taylor run circles around the OSU defense. Barry's very first run on this highlight clip should prove to anyone with any kind of football knowledge that he not only was better than Ken Clark, but better than just about any running back, college or pro, ever. You can't have watched this kid play and think he was anything but the best RB on the field, I don't care how much :koolaid2: you're drinking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZxIAPzec1g
I was at this game as a freshman. Nobody I talked to in my house, nobody in the stands around us, nobody tailgating before or after this game ever talked about Ken Clark being better than Barry Sanders. Near as I can remember we were just damned glad to have jumped on them early and kept outscoring them, because once Sanders got going he was unstoppable.