Why Former Indiana Stars Antwaan Randle El and Vaughn Dunbar Belong in the College Football Hall of Fame #iufb #Hoosiers https://www.si.com/college/indiana/football/indiana-football-antwaan-randle-el-vaughn-dunbar-college-football-hall-of-fame-case
Hopefully, Indiana, coming off an undefeated national championship season, will also give them a tailwind.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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@unclemark team winning percentage is not a pre rec though
@unclemark team winning percentage is not a pre rec though
I know, I know.
Still, if I was a voter and not an IU fan or ARE lover, I'd hold it against him. The greatest players in most any team sport turn the team into winners. ARE didn't. We all know why, but those on the outside looking in won't.
I hope I'm wrong. If I am I'll even say a couple nice things about @hooky as penance.
Additional reasons both belong imo as I'm probably the only person who's own elite sports career, lol, overlapped indirectly both ARE and Dunbar.
ARE once hit a softball so incredibly hard and with such incredible overspin at me playing third base in our Intramural Softball Final 4 game that I misjudged the four or five foot drop, got lit up on my left shoulder, but avoided an error by taking the very painful force out at third.
A few times in Middle School our football team crossed old Reed Rd. and shared the practice field with the Panther varsity team Dunbar's senior HS season.
There's no doubt, while he was taking water, that he wasn't impressed with my 6th or 7th grade D-Line snaps up close, and not from the usual distance between our two schools practice fields.
Why Former Indiana Stars Antwaan Randle El and Vaughn Dunbar Belong in the College Football Hall of Fame #iufb #Hoosiers https://www.si.com/college/indiana/football/indiana-football-antwaan-randle-el-vaughn-dunbar-college-football-hall-of-fame-case
In general I'm down on Hall of Fames because they end of being old boys clubs and lose their integrity. That applies in spades to university athletic halls of fame, which are also subject to the wokeness virus. As an example, Vaughn Dunbar is not even a member of the IU Hall of Fame....same applies to Tracy Porter, Mike Dumas, Tevin Coleman, Tim Wilbur, Dan Feeney, Marv Woodson, Thomas Lewis, James Hardy, and Duane Gunn (I know he had racketeering convictions so that's not surprising). Basically, in almost any Hall of Fame you could take out about 30% of the inductees and find another 30% who would be more qualified.
That said, I think the College Football Hall of Fame has done a pretty good job of keeping it real.....it's pretty high profile and that helps.......
...Their coach allowed water? Soft! 🤣There's no doubt, while he was taking water, that he wasn't impressed with my 6th or 7th grade D-Line snaps up close, and not from the usual distance between our two schools practice fields. ...
I remember in the late 70s our coach strictly limiting water breaks and offering salt tablets. LOL 😆
That was 9th grade JV, but by the next year that had finally done a 180 and there was plenty of water. Times change... Probably still used the smelling salts for 'dingers' though. I think that was only through the trainer if at all though.
I cant see Dunbar having any shot at this. Glad he was nominated though. Very cool. Randle El may have a shot.
@unclemark ARE did what he did with very little around him. He is still the best individule FB player I have ever seen. He didn't get the Heisman becuse of the name on the front of his jersey but man he deserved it..possible both his Jr and Sr years. He was certainly better than Brees his Jr year.
@middawg I saw ARE dunk a BB flat footed jumping straight up...in flip flops.