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Super Bowl-winning coach hits mark with team message, picks all-time Georgia offensive stars
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Super Bowl-winning coach hits mark with team message, picks all-time Georgia offensive stars
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Tough to pick all time RBs at Georgia but I gotta go Herschal, Gurley and Chubb. A healthy and unsigned jersey Gurley but I dare say a healthy Gurley over all of them. He is the most electric player and showed up in every big moment. Best RB I've ever personally watched in the red and black. He was a walking 10-15 yards or TD. His kickoff returns were insane, so much fun to watch. Everybody was scared of #3
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QB: Stafford, Bennett, Tarkenton; RB: Gurley, Chubb, Hearst; WR: Green, Scott, McConkey, Pickens; TE: Bowers, McMichael, Watson; OL: Stinchcomb, Thomas, McIntyre, Glenn, Jones; K: Kasay and Butler; P: Thorson, Camarda, Butler
I think for RB, you got to go with Walker and Gurley. As good as Chubb, I think he is a notch below Gurley at both speed and power.
Anybody that doesn’t have Herschel as #1 RB never saw him play. In my opinion #1 TB in college history not just at Georgia.
In your opinion being the key point. HW today would not be the freak he was in 1980.
Pretty much agree with most of Gruden's choices..GoDAWGS!
Went to school with Gruden… a real solid citizen who I met again later in life and found inspirational (setting aside his unfortunate controversy). I place a lot of weight on what he says, as he's pretty unbiased, so this is a heck of list that I find compelling.
On a related "best of" note, I'm not sure if all of you DN posters have seen this today, but (FINALLY) Stetson got some real respect from the MSM sports-writing world:
The 25 Best College Football Quarterbacks of the Past 25 Years
I think the logic is solid (it's about leadership and results, not just measurables) and really appreciate Sports Illustrated (the cream-of-the-crop from the old days, IMHO) doing SBIV, UGA, and the fan base a solid here 🤠
Great picks by Gruden. Herschel Walker was an absolute beast at RB. Had to gang tackle him with usually at least three defenders when he had his balance and was at full steam.
Very rare for one guy to tackle him and when that did happen it was usually very early in his run where he hadn’t gotten balanced and traction yet. He was just freakish at the position. Verses UF he dragged like four or five defenders into the end zone from like 10 yds. out on one play !! Incredible !!
Also Loved Gruden’s motivational speech to the Dawgs !! If they really paid attention and I feel they did, the advice that both KS and Gruden are giving them are far more potent than just the words when Applied on and off the field. This 2025 team I Believe is being underestimated by allot of naysayers and that’s actually a good thing !! The Dawgs are gonna put a big bite on some teams that will shock the “experts” !! Go Dawgs !!
Well your opinion is exactly that and it has about as much credence as my wife's opinion would when it comes to football. Herschel was a physical freak without equal then or now. There has never been another running back with his size that had the speed and agility he possessed.
Thanks for posting that info. !! Good read !!
hahaha just say you started watching UGA football in 2015 and call it a day. Herschel was the best college football player to ever step on the field. Period. Hearst Gurley 2 & 3 imo. But 1 is t debatable
"Walker, it’s worth noting, had 238 yards rushing and also scored a touchdown in the 26-21 win over Florida in 1980."_____ @MikeGriffith
Lol....looks a lot like, most of the game stats of 1980, probably.
Imo.…If Dooley had trusted Belue to spread the ball around, a little more....Lindsey would've done a helluva lot more, than he wound up doing. All they had to do, was "feed him the ball".
But, because the ground game is safer...[and, in '80 very effective].…that honor went to Walker. Otherwise, we would've been treated to more moments like the Florida fun-run.
Lindsay Scott was one of the most deceptively fast players I've ever seen... and had the quickest hands of any of em. He is definitely among the best...as is AJ Green and five or six others.
Mathew Stafford!!??? Over Tarkenton or Bratkowski? I don't think so. Stafford developed into a darn good Quarterback. He just didn't do it at UGA. That came after he turned pro.
Imo...Gruden nailed the OL and RB's. Though...I can't believe he was that far off on the QB. Must have been throwing, a still active Stafford, a dawg bone in case he had to work with him in the booth one day. Okay....I get it. Lolol
To add to the below conversation....I also think Charlie Trippi and Frank Sinkwich deserve strong consideration.
Of the two...I'd go with Charlie Trippi, even though Sinkwich was the Heisman Winner. From everything I've heard...Trippi was actually, the better of the two…and deserved the Heisman in '46, I believe it was.
But, the "Yankee Media couldn't stomach giving UGA the award again".…so soon after Sinkwich won the award and UGA won The Natty, [1942]. However....Trippi, did win the SEC Championship & The Maxwell Award in '46.
Trippi's time with UGA was split, because of the war...I assume. He returned in 1945-46. His place in the backfield was also split....between halfback and quarterback.
They might not've given Trippi the Heisman after he "earned it"....but, even today...everybody knows whassup. Lol
Didn't Trippi play both ways on defense too?
Long list of RB's to choose from. Herschel undisputed no matter your opinion. What if he had played his SR year?! OMG. He would have had 3,000 yards lol! I mean, the opponents D game plan was to stak the line and stop him, but didn't ever work and bigger and faster as a SR?
Anyway, Lars Tate, Rodney Hampton, Robert Edwards often get forgotten but they were all beasts too, just barely under the best. Keith Henderson comes to mind. But Herschel, Hearst, Gurley, Chubb, were all on another level. Herschel was still head and shoulders above them all in his own league. For any college RB ever. Including Bo.
I still to this day would have liked to have seen Barry Sanders, but as many of you know they were not on TV due to NCAA sanctions.