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GCMB Poll: Greatest UF football player ever
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Maybe, maybe not. I don't know if there is a truly accurate way to say greatest overall player instead of greatest QB, greatest RB, etc.
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Why not just get a membership at a porn site? Or buy yourself a subscription to Playboy? Or buy one of those rubber f*ck dolls? Or just go away?
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You don't know WTF you're talking about. The pic came from the Jax Times Union. Yeah, it was safe enough for a newspaper.
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I know you're a f*cktard.
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If there was no Danny Wuerffel there would be no Tim Tebow. Remember reading an article couple of years ago saying back in 96 when we lost to fsu. Little Timmy was raking leafs and was crying that we lost. He wanted to grow up to be like Danny which had a great influence on Tebow as a child.
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Board demographics. A good many of the people who post here weren't even born when Marshall played college ball. To them he's just some cat from the '80s who supposedly had one great game against USC. That and the fact that he's a linebacker. But I agree he deserved at least a couple votes.
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I remember before Gator games from 2007 to 2009, I would play the Superman theme to get fired up. It was about Tebow all the way. He WAS Superman. Listen to the beginning of this and tell me you don't think of Tebow:
He did things on the field no one could believe. By the middle of the 2007 season, there were already videos on YouTube that went on forever with his insane highlights. You felt unbeatable with him out there. Our opponents and rivals hated him because they feared him badly. There was simply no way to game-plan against what he brought to the table and they knew it.
He's also the greatest short-yardage runner in Gator history, maybe even college football history. When you needed a yard or two on 3rd or 4th down, it was practically a gimme (the play at the end of the Ole Miss game being one exception). We took that aspect for granted. He was the passing game AND the running game AND the clear leader of the team in every respect.
Off the field, he was damn near a saint, the ONLY player in my lifetime that when he said he was a virgin you actually believed him.
His era here was extremely special and it saddens me a little that we're unlikely to ever have a player of his caliber again. In short, we were damn lucky to have him.
Thanks for the memories, Tim.
He did things on the field no one could believe. By the middle of the 2007 season, there were already videos on YouTube that went on forever with his insane highlights. You felt unbeatable with him out there. Our opponents and rivals hated him because they feared him badly. There was simply no way to game-plan against what he brought to the table and they knew it.
He's also the greatest short-yardage runner in Gator history, maybe even college football history. When you needed a yard or two on 3rd or 4th down, it was practically a gimme (the play at the end of the Ole Miss game being one exception). We took that aspect for granted. He was the passing game AND the running game AND the clear leader of the team in every respect.
Off the field, he was damn near a saint, the ONLY player in my lifetime that when he said he was a virgin you actually believed him.
His era here was extremely special and it saddens me a little that we're unlikely to ever have a player of his caliber again. In short, we were damn lucky to have him.
Thanks for the memories, Tim.
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I'm trying to figure out why "national attention" is part of being the best football player, rather than just being points added to put a thumb on the scale for Tebow. Tebow was a beyond-great leader and a good college quarterback. Danny was a great leader and a great college quarterback. Spurrier was a great leader, a great college quarterback, and a beyond-great game-changing coach.
But the best football player to every play at the University of Florida? None of them were as good on the field as Jack Youngblood, Emmitt Smith, Wilber Marshall, or Wes Chandler. Or Lomas Brown, who isn't on the list.
But the best football player to every play at the University of Florida? None of them were as good on the field as Jack Youngblood, Emmitt Smith, Wilber Marshall, or Wes Chandler. Or Lomas Brown, who isn't on the list.
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What do you base that on? Quarterback is by far the most difficult position on a football field to play.
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Every position is difficult. Wilber played linebacker, and often shifted to middle linebacker on third down - that is the quarterback on the other side of the ball. Jack Youngblood wasn't just a Gator great. He's one of the best football players in history, at any position. And Emmitt? Well, that speaks for itself. Sorry, I know the default here is to knob-slobber Tebow, with a nod and tickle to Danny, but neither of them were the greatest Gator football player of all time. Not, that is, until you add criteria that change the definition to something intended to reach the desired result.
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I have trouble imaging a better college MLB than Brandon Spikes. There is just not much you could do better on the field than he did. He was also an absolutely Unstoppable edge rusher when we asked him to do it.
The same could be said for Reggie Nelson.
But quarterbacks get the glory. They always have.
The same could be said for Reggie Nelson.
But quarterbacks get the glory. They always have.
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Are you drunk? I'm starting to get that impression. I stand by what I said: quarterback is by-far the toughest position on the field, and it isn't close. In fact, it's the toughest position in all of sports. And yes, QB is tougher than linebacker.
As for "knob-slobbing" Tebow, I would think as a Gator fan he certainly earned our knob-slobbing. Your take is very strange.
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I've seen every one of those guys play live accept Youngblood although I've seen him on TV and in the pros. No body brought it every single play the way Tebow did. Sorry.
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The question wasn't "who was the greatest Gator leader of all time," or "who was the best Gator college football player in the college game just in college of all time?" It was "Who was the greatest UF football player of all time?" That's not Tebow, in my perfectly sober opinion. He was inaccurate, slow to deliver the ball, and his physical strength as a runner in college covered for his weakness in decision-making. That was exposed at the next level. Emmitt Smith was a better football player. Did he play a harder position? Who cares, that wasn't the question. What you're doing here is creating a moving target so the only answer is "Tebow." Now it's, "who was the best UF football player in the college game who played quarterback and got lots of attention during the social media era." If you want me to answer that remarkably stupid question, I'll be happy to. It was Tebow. But there isn't an NFL team in history who would take him over Jack Youngblood, Emmitt Smith, Wilber Marshall, or about a hundred other football players who wore orange and blue, and they would be right.
Feel free to call me drunk again. I really don't care. Drunk or sober, my opinion is not yours. I expect you will manage, at some point in your life, to learn to deal with that.
