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A lot of good names here.
Could name a lot of guys on that 2000 team that never won a NC.

I'll go with Melvin Bratton. Great back.
Left it all out on the field.

Walsh has to be somewhere in there too.
Played probably the toughest schedule of all UM QB's.
Never lost a game*.
 
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IMO, Darryl Williams. We didn't have a safety come to being close to as good as Williams until Reed in 2000 (who was obviously better by that time).
 
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Gransapo said:
Jacory Harris. He was a different player before FSU ripped his arm out of his socket. Shouldn't have played the rest of year but thanks to Radio's tremendous roster management there were no other QBs. He kept playing and never complained - even when he was being roasted alive by the fans. He also had to deal with ****face Pat Nix and Mark "Throw It Deep" Whipple.

Plus he is the last QB to beat FSU.

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Jacory CHOSE to throw it deep whenever he could. Let's stop pretending that J12 was the victim, Whipple was a decent OC(The only hire Randy made that didn't cause me to break out into laughter). Especially when you compare it to the guy that preceded him.
 
rccollins said:
CJ RIchardson - wasn't our best safety ever obviously, but he hit so **** hard.


and of course Duke.. mainly by some idiots on this board. Duke was incredible all the time.
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CJ ruined the Arizona State kick return unit BY HIMSELF. Two consecutive kickoffs, two HUGE hits, and two fumbles. The game was over in Tempe from that moment forward.
 
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Dwayne Johnson.

Best play as a DL was sacking Charlie Ward when Ward ran into him. Chased San Diego State's Aztec Warrior mascot into the stands during a brawl. Donated millions back to The U, enough to have the locker room named after him. He may be a contributor to the IPF. Better pro wrestler than Larry Pfol.
 
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Eddie Edwards.

Played in the awful eras of the 70s, before many of the Cane great DTs. He was the third overall pick in the draft, and had a good NFL career.
 
Canedude08 said:
rccollins said:
CJ RIchardson - wasn't our best safety ever obviously, but he hit so **** hard.


and of course Duke.. mainly by some idiots on this board. Duke was incredible all the time.
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CJ ruined the Arizona State kick return unit BY HIMSELF. Two consecutive kickoffs, two HUGE hits, and two fumbles. The game was over in Tempe from that moment forward.
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CJ had a momentum changing pick in the 94 FSU game. Game-changing turnover in the first home game after Washington broke The Streak.
 
Was just about to post this!!! These two were ones that get don't mentioned nearly enough. Dan Morgan was the top linebacker in the nation his senior year and many people thought Bubba would revolutionize the position at the next level.
 
bj1478 said:
Brock Berlin... Beat Fsu and Florida 5 times no losses in just two years is big.

03 and 04 team had talent should have won 03 title just off defense.


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If Berlin would of played in 03 like he did in 04 we would of won the chip that yr.... Usc, lsu, or Oklahoma would of gotten curb stomped
 
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I'll say Rodney Bellinger.

It has to be somebody from 1983 because there's no guarantee anything else follows minus that season. Then I had to isolate the secondary, which was so spectacular. I attended every home game. That team not only led the nation in yards allowed per pass attempt -- my favorite stat -- but a little known fact is the defense didn't allow a single play beyond 28 yards the entire season, until that bowl game against Nebraska. Ten consecutive foes were held to 17 points or fewer after the opening debacle at Gainesville.

I could have chosen others from the secondary. Calhoun is the obvious pick from the bowl game, given how it ended. But Bellinger was often the defensive star of that game and that season, with so many clutch tackles versus the run and pass.

In desperate situations #4 would flash and make a critical tackle, seemingly out of nowhere and often by ankles and inches.

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Somebody nominated Ottis Anderson earlier in this thread. He was obviously high profile including Super Bowl MVP. However, it's true that he is desperately underappreciated these days, by younger Canes fans and even ones who grew up with those '80s teams as first memory. Anderson was an absolute freak, and superior in college to any Miami running back who followed. Amazing feet. The first defender had no chance. Unfortunately not many clips are available.

Anderson got heavy after his first few years in the NFL. Too many fans envision him as a plowhorse type in his Giants years. The reality of his younger years could not be further removed from that. Prior to our glory years, Ted Hendricks and O.J. Anderson were the two dominant athletes who stood out after I started following the Canes as a young kid in the late '60s.
 
Howard Clark
Chris Campbell
Andre King
James Jackson
Brock Berlin (what came after him was ****)
James Lewis
Wesley Carroll
Corn Green
Dexter Siegler
 
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