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DAILY DEBATE: Greatest CB in (U) Miami history?

Who is the Greatest CB in School History?

  • Robert Bailey

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Roland Smith

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Ryan McNeil

    Votes: 30 20.5%

  • Carlos Jones

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Duane Starks

    Votes: 19 13.0%

  • Phillip Buchanon

    Votes: 38 26.0%

  • Mike Rumph

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Artie Burns

    Votes: 2 1.4%

  • DJ Ivey

    Votes: 3 2.1%

  • Antrel Rolle

    Votes: 53 36.3%
  • Total voters
    146
  • Poll closed .
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Rellyrell said:
I’m going McNeil:
-2x Nat’l Champion
-Consensus All American
-Pro Bowler
-NFL Interception Leader (Not sure how he didn’t make the pro bowl this year)
-45 total turnovers created at the NFL level
-Made my Chicago Bears’ lives a living ****

Not sure any CB has this type of resume. Only thing missing is a Super Bowl; although, Antrel could make 1/2 an argument b/c he played CB early on b4 moving to S at the NFL level.
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Memnon said:
The criteria can be College or Pro's.
I personally went with both to make my choice.

For me, it's Duane Starks.

Mostly, based on what he did in the NFL. Being apart of the greatest Defense in NFL history, the 2000 Ravens Defense, he had one of the best & most underrated seasons for a CB ever.
- 49tks 23PD's & 6INT'S
which culminated in one of the most fitting moments of his career, the Pick 6 in Superbowl XXXV.

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Something he had done in college as well...
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He gets overlooked for the impact he had on that (Ravens Defense), because of guys like Ray Lewis, Rod Woodson, Samuel Adams, Tony Siragusa etc, but he was a major contributor & catalyst to why the Ravens 00 Defense was so dominant. He & Chris McAlister were absolute Lockdown Cover Corners.

Due to the totality of his career, he's #1 IMO.


There's also a really good arguments to be made for Ryan McNeil & Roland Smith, if you're just going by what they did at Miami.

But what say you?
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I would opine as an old dude that John Turner (Norland) from the late 1970s and Ronnie Lippett from the early 1980s belong on this sort of list. At least definitely over 2-3 on the list. But I have no issue with Ryan McNeil and Duane Starks being on top. Also, Tolbert Bain.
 
MedleyCane said:
I would opine as an old dude that John Turner (Norland) from the late 1970s and Ronnie Lippett from the early 1980s belong on this sort of list. At least definitely over 2-3 on the list. But I have no issue with Ryan McNeil and Duane Starks being on top. Also, Tolbert Bain.
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I wasn't even alive when they were playing, so I have nothing to reference about their time at Miami other than the word of old timers.

But I respect their accomplishments & helping pave the way for the ones that came after them.
 
Memnon said:
I wasn't even alive when they were playing, so I have nothing to reference about their time at Miami other than the word of old timers.

But I respect their accomplishments & helping pave the way for the ones that came after them.
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I understand where you're coming from, as I remember during Hialeah Optimist days our coaches and old-timers talking about Ted Hendricks. I later understood what a great hs, college and NFL player he was but I was a toddler in Cuba and later in Brooklyn when he was excelling.

Sidebar: I've noted before....for being a program which barely won games in the 1970s, almost getting **** down, we had quite a few great players, many of them logging many years in the NFL. Crazy stuff.
 
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Brains said:
The defensive backfield of McNeil, Paul White, Casey Greer, and Daryl Williams was the ****.

The 1996 DBs were solid with Starks, Little, and Mack. But the other safety position was in constant rotation between Marcus Wimberly, Eugene Ridgely, and Chris Gibson.
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Not enough people talk about how good DW was. Ed Reed 1a, DW 1b
 
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