Yep, Portis is kind of the forgotten man amongst our running backs from Edge to Gore. I'll admit I wanted McGahee to be the starter over him in 2001. All I heard before the season was this guy McGahee was a beast. Portis must have been the goods to keep McGahee from starting and he didn't disappoint. Portis made me forget about the McGahee talk.
"Move work from Denver to DC like Portis" - Jadakiss
Shaq Quarterman
Portis was a second round pick.
Good catch. Yep, #51 overall in that draft class. I had to look it up. Not sure why I was thinking he went in 4th round. One of the steals of that draft class.
Great Kid...mediocre (at best) LBer...
That's because the MLBers once he left, were even worse than him....That's a reflection on how God awful our LBer evaluations..recruiting and specifically coaching have been since forever...Absolute Toilet water...and still is.....
@Rellyrell ...again, don't get me wrong...Shaq is an Outstanding kid...That's obvious....Great student from a Great family...but the combination of Lousy LBer coaching, and limited skills were horrible...Now, I do feel Better LBer coaching would've masked Shaq's deficiencies by 10 fold...If I hear one more person say our LBing coaching was adequate, I'll rip my F-ing hair outta my head...
That's because from 89-93 Erickson's recruiting was ***...mainly at OL & QB....How in the name of God, do you go from Walsh..to Erickson..to Torretta..and then Costa??....He knew Bama had the #1 DL in America..with the 2 Best DLmen Curry & Copeland...and March out a Sloth footed QB...with a Garbage OL....and an Offense that left Torretta without a sizeable RB to help with blocking??....and 3/4ths of the time, said RB (Conley etc...) were split out wide at the snap??
That's recency bias at play. He was appreciated back then. His senior season was my freshman year at UM. He and Burgess Owens going in the first round was a big deal. Back then, who would have thought that two players from UM would go in the first round!
Harris & Jones were WIDE open for easy TDs against Nebraska in 95 OB...and Costa blew both....We had NO business losing that game....if our DL was at full strength, (Riley out with ACL...Holmes and Lang banged up)...we win that game regardless of Costa's sorry ***...I'll say it till I'm no longer alive...That was the Best performance (Sapp) by an Interior DLman in UM History...until he succumbed to exhaustion....He threw Frazier around to the point he was benched for Berringer....name ONE single player who caused Frazier to be benched, in his career at Nebraska??....You can't...As much as I idolized Jerome...and Tez....Sapp was the best of the Lot....
Gino even was Destroyed on his 35yd TD Pass to Lamar in the 92 UM vs FSU game...I didn't think he'd get up...Absolutely Annihilated...
Mario “Jesus” Cristobal (Our future savior and the Second Coming of the Messiah) was manhandled in that game. They had to put Zeb Lubinsky in who was OK but slow out of his stance because Gino didn’t bark out signals in Russian after he first did them in English.