HA!
I've been making the Michael Irving joke for years, but it's an evergreen because people just keep ******* it up...
IRVIN! 5 freakin' letters! Come on, OP, you had ONE JOB, to spell all the nominees' names correctly!
I keed, I keed...
Yes, per the criteria cited by another poster, Ted was only lacking on the "won a national championship" criterion. BUT HE HAS A MAJOR POSITIONAL AWARD NAMED AFTER HIM, so that should count for something and offset the fact that he played on some lesser UM teams...
The final 4 is:
Ray Lewis
Michael Irvin
Ed Reed
Warren Sapp
I absolutely love Ted Hendricks. College - dominant individually, not on good UM teams. He had a few lean years in the NFL. To me, he JUST misses the Final 4.
Russell Maryland was one of my all-time favorites at the time I was a...