knapplc
International Man of Mystery
Greetings, Husker Fans!! Since our beloved Huskers are not bowling this year, let’s turn our thoughts to players of yesteryear. Many of you have seen this ESPN list, their version of the top 25 college players ever, and have found much fault with it. Well, here’s our chance to show what we know.
This bowl season we’ll be running a “battle” of the top players college football has ever seen, and at the end I have every confidence that our top 25 will be far, far superior to ESPN’s. Here’s how it’ll work.
In this thread we’ll compile a list of nominees. This will give us our pool of players. From that I will create a March Madness style bracket of 32-64 players (depending on how many players we have nominated), with seedings. Top seeds will be matched against lower seeds, and will work their way up through the bracket in head-to-head votes. I will start four threads at a time, each containing a one-on-one battle, with a poll for voting. Individual battles will run for 48 hours, with the winner moving on to the next round. Ties will automatically go to the highest seed.
Who is eligible: Any player who has ever played Division I-A college football, any position, any era. For simplicity’s sake please indicate the team and year(s) each player played in your nominations. Feel free to nominate as many players as you like (within reason – don’t go crazy on me).
You are allowed – even encouraged – to lobby for your favorite player in a battle. Many people may not know why you should vote for Player A over Player B. Maybe Player A competed in a tougher era, or against tougher opponents, or was injured during half his games – whatever. Let your fellow voters know why they should vote for your guy, and be prepared to discuss the merits of your hero over theirs. That’s most of the fun of these battles!
NOTE – This is NOT a HuskerBoard contest, and no prizes will be given to HuskerBoard members. This is just for fun, and to generate some conversation.
So with that, let’s start the nominations process. I’ll get it kicked off with ESPN’s list – they have many names that should be included in our brackets. During nomination either post your nominee or second someone else’s. Read through the nominations and seconds, and don’t bother seconding a guy who’s been seconded several times already – they’re going to be in at that point.
The ESPN List:
1 Red Grange
2 Barry Sanders
3 Herschel Walker
4 Doak Walker
5 Sammy Baugh
6 Jim Thorpe
7 Tony Dorsett
8 Bo Jackson
9 Roger Staubach
10 Vince Young
11 Charles Woodsen
12 Earl Campbell
13 Glenn Davis
14 Hugh Green
15 John Elway
16 Tom Harmon
17 Bronco Nagurski
18 Jim Brown
19 d!(k Butkus
20 Charley Trippi
21 Archie Griffin
22 George Gipp
23 Johnny Rodgers
24 Reggie Bush
25 Ernie Nevers
I’ll keep the Master list updated as we go…
This bowl season we’ll be running a “battle” of the top players college football has ever seen, and at the end I have every confidence that our top 25 will be far, far superior to ESPN’s. Here’s how it’ll work.
In this thread we’ll compile a list of nominees. This will give us our pool of players. From that I will create a March Madness style bracket of 32-64 players (depending on how many players we have nominated), with seedings. Top seeds will be matched against lower seeds, and will work their way up through the bracket in head-to-head votes. I will start four threads at a time, each containing a one-on-one battle, with a poll for voting. Individual battles will run for 48 hours, with the winner moving on to the next round. Ties will automatically go to the highest seed.
Who is eligible: Any player who has ever played Division I-A college football, any position, any era. For simplicity’s sake please indicate the team and year(s) each player played in your nominations. Feel free to nominate as many players as you like (within reason – don’t go crazy on me).
You are allowed – even encouraged – to lobby for your favorite player in a battle. Many people may not know why you should vote for Player A over Player B. Maybe Player A competed in a tougher era, or against tougher opponents, or was injured during half his games – whatever. Let your fellow voters know why they should vote for your guy, and be prepared to discuss the merits of your hero over theirs. That’s most of the fun of these battles!
NOTE – This is NOT a HuskerBoard contest, and no prizes will be given to HuskerBoard members. This is just for fun, and to generate some conversation.
So with that, let’s start the nominations process. I’ll get it kicked off with ESPN’s list – they have many names that should be included in our brackets. During nomination either post your nominee or second someone else’s. Read through the nominations and seconds, and don’t bother seconding a guy who’s been seconded several times already – they’re going to be in at that point.
The ESPN List:
1 Red Grange
2 Barry Sanders
3 Herschel Walker
4 Doak Walker
5 Sammy Baugh
6 Jim Thorpe
7 Tony Dorsett
8 Bo Jackson
9 Roger Staubach
10 Vince Young
11 Charles Woodsen
12 Earl Campbell
13 Glenn Davis
14 Hugh Green
15 John Elway
16 Tom Harmon
17 Bronco Nagurski
18 Jim Brown
19 d!(k Butkus
20 Charley Trippi
21 Archie Griffin
22 George Gipp
23 Johnny Rodgers
24 Reggie Bush
25 Ernie Nevers
I’ll keep the Master list updated as we go…
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