Cdog923 Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Unsportsmanlike Conduct, the afternoon show on 1620, posed a very interesting off-season question today: It took me awhile, but this is what I went with: QB: 1995 RB: 2012 WR/TE: 2006 OL: 1982 DL: 2009 LB: 2002 DB: 1999 ST: 2015 1 Quote Link to comment
runningblind Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 (edited) This is fun off season fodder. QB: 2019 RB: 1982 WR/TE: 2014 OL: 1995 DL: 1988 LB: 1992 DB: 1999 ST: 1972 Changing my mind on ST back before I existed thanks to @Guy Chamberlin Edited June 7, 2019 by runningblind No one has picked up on my QB choice yet.... :) 1 Quote Link to comment
Hans Gruber Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 QB: 1989 (Gerry Gdowski isn't a bad consolation prize after other unit selections eliminate Gill, Frazier, Frost and Crouch.) RB: 1982 WR/TE: 2013 (Not many Nebraska teams started two receivers that would later be selected in the NFL Draft.) OL: 1994 DL: 1997 LB: 2003 (Barrett Ruud and Demorrio Williams) DB: 2010 ST: 2014 (I'll take a young Pierson-El returning punts before he was injured.) 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Nebfanatic Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 6 hours ago, Hans Gruber said: QB: 1989 (Gerry Gdowski isn't a bad consolation prize after other unit selections eliminate Gill, Frazier, Frost and Crouch.) RB: 1982 WR/TE: 2013 (Not many Nebraska teams started two receivers that would later be selected in the NFL Draft.) OL: 1994 DL: 1997 LB: 2003 (Barrett Ruud and Demorrio Williams) DB: 2010 ST: 2014 (I'll take a young Pierson-El returning punts before he was injured.) I like the 2010 db selection. Prince! Dennard, Hagg, Gomes. That squad was stacked at DB 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Hans Gruber Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 4 hours ago, Nebfanatic said: I like the 2010 db selection. Prince! Dennard, Hagg, Gomes. That squad was stacked at DB All four drafted and played at least two or three seasons in the NFL. Prince is still playing. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
MyBloodIsRed16 Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 2 hours ago, Hans Gruber said: All four drafted and played at least two or three seasons in the NFL. Prince is still playing. For Da Bears!!! 1 Quote Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 These are all pretty solid, but you don't have to be old to reach back and grab Johnny Rodgers over Demornay Pierson-El. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment
In the Deed the Glory Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 QB: 2001 (Crouch; wanted Frazier or Gill but...rules) RB: 1983 (Rozier) WR/TE: 1971 (Rodgers) OL: 1994 (Best OL in school history) DL: 1997 (Jason Peter, Grant Wistrom, Mike Rucker, Steve Warren all NFL Players, 2009 was a close second) LB: 1993 (Trev Alberts) DB: 1999 (Mike Brown, Ralph Brown, Keyou Craver, Clint Finley all NFL players) P/PK: 2009 (Alex Henery, Brett Maher) 1 Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 28 minutes ago, In the Deed the Glory said: QB: 2001 (Crouch; wanted Frazier or Gill but...rules) RB: 1983 (Rozier) WR/TE: 1971 (Rodgers) OL: 1994 (Best OL in school history) DL: 1997 (Jason Peter, Grant Wistrom, Mike Rucker, Steve Warren all NFL Players, 2009 was a close second) LB: 1993 (Trev Alberts) DB: 1999 (Mike Brown, Ralph Brown, Keyou Craver, Clint Finley all NFL players) P/PK: 2009 (Alex Henery, Brett Maher) I don't think all those 1990s fit withing the rules either 1 1 Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 I thought this would be a fun exercise but man, It’s crazy how stacked those mid 90’s teams were. Wanting to pick somewhere between 93 to 97 for virtually every position group. It’s insane. 1 Quote Link to comment
Cdog923 Posted June 7, 2019 Author Share Posted June 7, 2019 1 hour ago, JJ Husker said: I thought this would be a fun exercise but man, It’s crazy how stacked those mid 90’s teams were. Wanting to pick somewhere between 93 to 97 for virtually every position group. It’s insane. I had a real difficult time choosing between the '94 OL, '95 QBs, '95 RBs, and '96 DL. I do feel like I dropped the ball with the '02 LBs, but I picked them for Ruud, Shanle and Demorrio. On 6/6/2019 at 12:06 AM, runningblind said: This is fun off season fodder. QB: 2019 RB: 1982 WR/TE: 2014 OL: 1995 DL: 1988 LB: 1992 DB: 1999 ST: 1972 Changing my mind on ST back before I existed thanks to @Guy Chamberlin For a time, I had the '95 RBs and the '19 QBs; I decided I could trade AMart and LP/Green for Frazier and Burkhead/Abdullah. Quote Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 It's really early on Adrian Martinez, but really tempting. Certainly worth freeing up players from the glory eras. Or to put it another way; look what Adrian Martinez did with units that wouldn't come close to anyone's "best of" lists. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Okay, this sucks. Wouldn’t have guessed this would be so difficult but each pick takes out a five year window. To make it easier (I thought) I ranked the importance of the position groups based on Nebraska’s usual style of play or at least how important I perceive these groups to usually be. Had to start with the best possible lines up front. I also gave more weight to the list of names rather than specific years those names performed great. So a guy who may not have played as much as a frosh or soph but was awesome later in his career got weighted highly for all years he played. It was working pretty well until I came to the last category With this methodology I came up with; OL: 1994 (Stai, Wiegert, Zatechka, Taylor, Graham, Wilkes) DL: 1997 (Wistrom, Peter, Kelsey, Rucker, Warren) RB: 1982 (Rozier, Craig, Smith, Schellen, Rathman) QB: 2001 (Crouch) DB: 2009 (Prince, Asante, Dennard, Gomes, Hagg, O’Hanlon) LB: 1989 (Croel, Mills, Petko, Tyrance) WR/TE: 1971 (Rodgers, Woody Cox, Frosty Anderson, Jerry List) bonus- Johnny boosts the return game for ST P/PK: 1968 (Paul Rogers) this one is sort of weak but he did likely save Devaney’s job and pffft....they’re kickers and Henery wasn’t an option. Really would’ve liked to somehow get Tommie or LP or Gill or Suh in here...but rules. 1 2 Quote Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 I realize Special Teams is more than a return man, but looking at the rest of the units I don't think we'd do much kicking. Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 42 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said: I realize Special Teams is more than a return man, but looking at the rest of the units I don't think we'd do much kicking. Yeah, this team doesn’t even need a punter but the kicker (extra points) and return guys would be busy. Actually the original tweet this derived from did not specify special teams but rather called that position group P/PK. So I guess this particular all-time Husker team does not require returners or an all around ST. But I played it safe by taking Johnny Rodgers in the WR group. Quote Link to comment
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