QB
LB
CB
Could end up being more, but these seem pretty safe at this point. Right?
Probably as a LB corp, but we've had some great LBs (McFadden?) that could be considered. Still, I wouldn't trade what Aiden has been able to do, considering he QBs that side.
Some very good QBs (Trent Green comes to mind. Antwaan.) and very good DBs but I'll take Mendoza and Ponds by a mile any day. Now, if Antwaan had played DB ...
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QB: Trent Green - While Mendoza was great this year, I think Green is the winner here. And he went on to have a long NFL career (a rarity for IU players)
LB: McFadden - Our defense was average without him (look at Cincinnati game). He was a difference maker for that team
CB: Ponds - He pretty much shuts down whoever he was on.
I think our team this year was so good because our team was better top to bottom (as far as the starters and rotation players) than we are used to seeing here...not because any one player was the best there ever was at Indiana...although we did have many that would probably be high up on the list of best at their position.
QB: Trent Green - While Mendoza was great this year, I think Green is the winner here. And he went on to have a long NFL career (a rarity for IU players)
LB: McFadden - Our defense was average without him (look at Cincinnati game). He was a difference maker for that team
CB: Ponds - He pretty much shuts down whoever he was on.
I think our team this year was so good because our team was better top to bottom (as far as the starters and rotation players) than we are used to seeing here...not because any one player was the best there ever was at Indiana...although we did have many that would probably be high up on the list of best at their position.
I get the pedestal we put some former players on but Trent Green could not be considered better, right? He started for 2 years and every year at IU he threw more INT's than TD's. I get his team around him wasn't as talented but this feels like a pretty drastic difference.
Trent Green
Fernando Mendoza
QB: Trent Green - While Mendoza was great this year, I think Green is the winner here. And he went on to have a long NFL career (a rarity for IU players)
LB: McFadden - Our defense was average without him (look at Cincinnati game). He was a difference maker for that team
CB: Ponds - He pretty much shuts down whoever he was on.
I think our team this year was so good because our team was better top to bottom (as far as the starters and rotation players) than we are used to seeing here...not because any one player was the best there ever was at Indiana...although we did have many that would probably be high up on the list of best at their position.
Trent Green over the guy who won the Heisman Trophy????
QB: Trent Green - While Mendoza was great this year, I think Green is the winner here. And he went on to have a long NFL career (a rarity for IU players)
LB: McFadden - Our defense was average without him (look at Cincinnati game). He was a difference maker for that team
CB: Ponds - He pretty much shuts down whoever he was on.
I think our team this year was so good because our team was better top to bottom (as far as the starters and rotation players) than we are used to seeing here...not because any one player was the best there ever was at Indiana...although we did have many that would probably be high up on the list of best at their position.
@openwheel speaking of tandems or corps, we've had better individual RBs, but better than Hemby/Black/Beebe/Martin? What about a receiver corp of Sarratt, Cooper, Becker, Williams and Brady?
van waiters deserves to be in the convo
also others from coach Mal's teams
how soon we forget.....
Anthony Thompson was a RB corp all his own. 😉 (Saw Hemby get trucked once by one of Miami's rushers. Thompson would've helped the guy up off the ground, probably apologizing. LOL And Hemby does a good job blocking. )@openwheel speaking of tandems or corps, we've had better individual RBs, but better than Hemby/Black/Beebe/Martin? What about a receiver corp of Sarratt, Cooper, Becker, Williams and Brady?
Wilson had a couple great backs.
Gotta say, Hemby and Black exceeded my expectations. Black became a real horse down the stretch. Hemby did what he was brought in to do, consistent, good back.
Receiving corp, we've had some great receivers, and Wilson had a very solid group. But what we had this year has to be on top.
QB- Fernando. Heisman and natty. Can't really argue with that. I love Antwaan and the teams he played on did him zero favors, but still...
LB- Probably Joe Norman or Van Waiters. In the past 20 years it would be McFadden #1 and Aiden a very close #2.
DB- Ponds for sure
Running Back, outside of AT, would be the most interesting to rank. It's probably IUs strongest position group historically.
QB: Trent Green - While Mendoza was great this year, I think Green is the winner here. And he went on to have a long NFL career (a rarity for IU players)
LB: McFadden - Our defense was average without him (look at Cincinnati game). He was a difference maker for that team
CB: Ponds - He pretty much shuts down whoever he was on.
I think our team this year was so good because our team was better top to bottom (as far as the starters and rotation players) than we are used to seeing here...not because any one player was the best there ever was at Indiana...although we did have many that would probably be high up on the list of best at their position.
Trent Green over the guy who won the Heisman Trophy????
You think Trent Green's supporting cast and coaching staff were anywhere near as good? You don't spend 15 years in the NFL (9 as a starter) by sucking.
You're smoking something.
QB: Trent Green - While Mendoza was great this year, I think Green is the winner here. And he went on to have a long NFL career (a rarity for IU players)
LB: McFadden - Our defense was average without him (look at Cincinnati game). He was a difference maker for that team
CB: Ponds - He pretty much shuts down whoever he was on.
I think our team this year was so good because our team was better top to bottom (as far as the starters and rotation players) than we are used to seeing here...not because any one player was the best there ever was at Indiana...although we did have many that would probably be high up on the list of best at their position.
Trent Green over the guy who won the Heisman Trophy????
You think Trent Green's supporting cast and coaching staff were anywhere near as good? You don't spend 15 years in the NFL (9 as a starter) by sucking.
You're smoking something.
You could say that about a lot of guys (cast and coaching), but we're not projecting what they COULD have been if they'd have been surrounded by better, we're talking about WHAT THEY WERE. And I never said he sucked. I love(d) Trent Green. Was embarrassed that his family was booed on Senior Day. I'd take Mendoza 10x outta 10 over him for a variety of reasons, but mostly for his winning/production.
Running Back, outside of AT, would be the most interesting to rank. It's probably IUs strongest position group historically.
2025, This year the team ran 649 times for 3,406yds (5.2ypc).
1989, Anthony Thompsons group ran 559 times for 2,359yds (4.2ypc).
2014, Tevin Colemans group in 2014 ran 539 times for 3,163 (5.9ypc).
It's hard to discount how great AT and Coleman were in their own right. On this team, those guys would've been out of this world. As a collective group, it's really between 2014 and 2025.
How many per game between AT and this season? YPC isn't even close to enough of a metric to rank the RBs by. Totally different eras .
But yeah, we've had backs who would've been really great on this team. I'm only seeing Hemby and Black as' this group' though. Because Beebe got hurt unfortunately before the strong part of the schedule. And Khobie usually played mop up. But yeah, if need four backs to measure up, then they are the only group. But for two back combos, maybe Tevin Coleman and Houston. I can't remember who else we had when AT was the horse.
I'm sort of partial to Vaughn Dunbar. Loved watching him work. Didn't have the numbers either maybe, but a great back. 😉
I also loved TG but you cannot compare him to Mendoza and site his pro career. We do not yet know what FMs pro career will be but I’m betting it will be good.QB: Trent Green - While Mendoza was great this year, I think Green is the winner here. And he went on to have a long NFL career (a rarity for IU players)
LB: McFadden - Our defense was average without him (look at Cincinnati game). He was a difference maker for that team
CB: Ponds - He pretty much shuts down whoever he was on.
I think our team this year was so good because our team was better top to bottom (as far as the starters and rotation players) than we are used to seeing here...not because any one player was the best there ever was at Indiana...although we did have many that would probably be high up on the list of best at their position.
Trent Green over the guy who won the Heisman Trophy????
You think Trent Green's supporting cast and coaching staff were anywhere near as good? You don't spend 15 years in the NFL (9 as a starter) by sucking.
You're smoking something.
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