VA_Cane_54
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Darryl Sharpton
I wouldn't call these fellows overlooked - just from earlier eras....
Hard to be overlooked when you're a perennial NFL all-pro like some of them were....and some of them were all-americans here, too...
And Williams was the #1 DT in the country out of Carol City....
When people think of our RB's, Banaszak and Foreman get brought up after Mike James and Javarris James and I know that's a prisoner of the moment but still.
Harrah probably should be in the Pro Hall of Fame and the everyday Miami fan in the street doesn't know he exists.
Burgess Owens, from what I've read, might've been the best cover corner the school has ever had and people will name Demarcus Van Dyke before him.
Lester Williams might be a stretch but again the current fan doesn't know who he is.
The older guys are big examples of just time causing some great players to be forgotten.
When I think underrated, I judge it by how the fanbase looks at you. Nobody would say that Banaszak is better than Portis, Gore, or McGahee but the fact that the overwhelming majority of fans haven't heard of him shows that he is underrated.
If I took 100 Miami fans, how many of them would know who Lester Williams is? Anything under 85 is a travesty.
Anyone who sat in the OB before Jim Kelly should not be surprised the old players are not known - nobody was ever there. Still a lot of our old guys had excellent pro careers but younger fans do not remember.
And that's a real shame.
Some guys who weren't all world like Jerome Brown, Cortez Kennedy, Warren Sapp, Edge, Portis, etc., but were pretty good players in the late '60s and early '70s were:
Bob Tatarek: undersized DT - 6 years with Buffalo
Tony Cline: DE - 10 years with the 49ers and Raiders
Dennis Harrah: - OL - great with the Rams
Joe Mirto: OL - tore up his knee on a tackle eligible play and didn't last long with the Dolphins
Rubin Carter: nose tackle - great with Denver
Tom "Silky" Sullivan and Woody Thompson: A couple RBs on some bad UM teams that played in the NFL after some modest careers at UM
A guy that had a pretty good career with the Bengals would be Eddie Edwards. I never saw him at UM. Hopefully someone can give their take on his UM career
Willie Smith. Look him up.
Pete Banaszak
Chuck Foreman
Dennis Harrah
Lester Williams
Burgess Owens
If you go back to the 30's-50's you have even more with Jim Dooley, Don Bosseler, Al Carapella, and a bunch more. The heyday teams with Ottis Anderson, Bubba Franks, Brett Perriman, and Eddie Brown don't nearly get their dues because so many great and usually better players have played their own positions. There's a ton of underrated guys but with our history some guys are going to get overlooked.
Stanley Shakespeare (RIP), played in Eddie Brown's shadow, but a **** good WR
Basil Proctor
What a frigging team we root for. Eddie was All Amercian, MVP, 1st round NFL pick and falls into "underrated". The administration wonders why we are so upset at failure. The talent we have had has not equal. Only ND and USC can be discussed in our class.
To your question, Eddie played like a man possessed. He was a beast in the elk of Ted himself. Our Dline was producing NFL players long before our great skill positions. Bob Tatarek played on Dline as The Stork.
What a frigging team we root for. Eddie was All Amercian, MVP, 1st round NFL pick and falls into "underrated". The administration wonders why we are so upset at failure. The talent we have had has not equal. Only ND and USC can be discussed in our class.
To your question, Eddie played like a man possessed. He was a beast in the elk of Ted himself. Our Dline was producing NFL players long before our great skill positions. Bob Tatarek played on Dline as The Stork.
Thanks for the info on Edwards. I don't like to comment on something I didn't see. Eddie was the #3 pick in the draft.
Also, as you said, Tatarek played with Hendricks and so did Tony Cline. Coach Tate had some pretty good defenses.
What a frigging team we root for. Eddie was All Amercian, MVP, 1st round NFL pick and falls into "underrated". The administration wonders why we are so upset at failure. The talent we have had has not equal. Only ND and USC can be discussed in our class.
To your question, Eddie played like a man possessed. He was a beast in the elk of Ted himself. Our Dline was producing NFL players long before our great skill positions. Bob Tatarek played on Dline as The Stork.
Thanks for the info on Edwards. I don't like to comment on something I didn't see. Eddie was the #3 pick in the draft.
Also, as you said, Tatarek played with Hendricks and so did Tony Cline. Coach Tate had some pretty good defenses.
Darnell Jenkins was one of my favorite players growing up / his senior year he was a one man offense. The VT game he had stands out to me was a great one man performance.... but my favorite memory of him was when he layed out Ernie Sims (FSU Lb) on a block forgot which year that was though.