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Darren Krein was from Aurora,CO. He was a second team USA Today A-A LB and was described somewhere as a "tackling machine." He emerged on the national scene at the end of his senior year when he was named to the USA Today team. We had to be ASU for him but we didn't tell him he was destined for...

I watched him (Jones) play in an exhibition with Redskins and he was not the same. Another unheralded, unknown, unrecruited player. We had so many....like the guys I mentioned earlier, Jimmie Jones, Russ Maryland, even Torretta. I remember mentioning Torretta to Alan Wallace of Superprep...

There was Compuserve back then. Maybe Prodigy, AOL?

I loved JJ but I’m not one to believe JJ would have scored more points. Erickson has a wide-open very potent offense. JJ ran the old Gary Stevens offense which he inherited from Schnellenberger who inherited it from Shula who inherited it from Paul Brown perhaps through Weeb Ewbank. I can’t...

It WAS a cheap shot. Everybody knew that. We had 3 very good DEs, I think all in the same class, recruited by JJ, Patrick, Rusty and Krein. Exceptional college players but none made it in NFL. (Rusty didn’t have a chance obviously.)

Top 2 with Stubbs no. 1? Is that what you’re trying to say? You never saw Ted Hendricks then.

I’m skeptical. I have a recollection of Rusty being well known nationally and receiving official visits from some very good schools. Can’t prove it now, I’d have to find my old recruiting publications that I might have saved somewhere but too much work to find them.I think you might be wrong...