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Heisman Busts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:43 pm
by Sonny
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/2005/12/08/gallery.heismanbusts/content.1.html

Who is your favorite Heisman bust? My personal favorites are Rashaan Salaam (Colorado, '94) or Gino Torretta (Miami, '92).

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:52 pm
by Brent Burns
After looking through all of those Heisman busts, I would definitely pick Gino.

Re: Heisman Busts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:01 pm
by KnoxVegas
Sonny wrote:Who is your favorite Heisman bust? My personal favorites are Rashaan Salaam (Colorado, '94) or Gino Torretta (Miami, '92).


To quote Rashaan Salaam, "That marijuana makes you lazy."

The Heisman Trophy winners club is a pretty exclusive bunch. Yet, they (the voters) seem to admit some pretty bad players, which happened to play on great team.


Gordie Lockbaum was robbed!

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:42 pm
by CATLAX MAN
I'd have to go with one that wasn't on their list, Pat Sullivan QB from Auburn.

Re: Heisman Busts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:46 pm
by Brent Burns
[quote="KnoxVegas] Gordie Lockbaum was robbed![/quote]

His Holy Cross fans would chant, "Gordie, Gordie, Gordie." He may have been robbed, but his son and his teammates won the Little League World Series a few years ago. At the time, he was one of the few who could excellently play both ends of the field

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:00 pm
by tamu33
R. Williams said that this year he is voting for Young... but he said last year his mom voted for him and he doesn't know who she voted for.

Seems to me that they should change their voting system if the moms are now voting.



I will have to agree with ESPN's Woody Paige in saying that OJ SIMPSON is the worst heisman winner...
He not only got blood on his trophy when he killed those two people, he hasn't got it any more.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:07 pm
by KnoxVegas
CATLAX MAN wrote:I'd have to go with one that wasn't on their list, Pat Sullivan QB from Auburn.


I bet the fans of TCU would say he was a success! :roll: Ed Marinaro lost to Sullivan that year.

tamu33 wrote:ESPN's Woody Paige


Not that I am proud, just point of fact, Woodrow Paige graduated from America's premier learning and football institution, your University of Tennessee.

I have no excuse for Skip Bayless.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:29 pm
by DTLax
I'm going with Charlie Ward '93

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:30 pm
by Sonny
DTLax wrote:I'm going with Charlie Ward '93


At least he had a semi-productive (long) career in the NBA after choosing to NOT play in the NFL.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:37 pm
by Timbalaned
Have to give the nod to Eric Crouch

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:48 pm
by bste_lax
KnoxVegas wrote:
tamu33 wrote:ESPN's Woody Paige


Not that I am proud, just point of fact, Woodrow Paige graduated from America's premier learning and football institution, your University of Tennessee.


Like you said, I wouldn't admit that.

PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:19 pm
by KnoxVegas
Sonny wrote:
DTLax wrote:At least he had a semi-productive (long) career in the NBA after choosing to NOT play in the NFL.


Is that what you call no being drafted?

My biggest bust has to be Morgana. Seriously, I would have to Gino Torretta. If "You Rhymes Are Incomplete Like" Vinny Testaverde could have such a long career, why could this almost carbon-copy stiff not achieve the same, in Minnesota no less?

Honorable mention to Terry Baker of Oregon State.

PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:23 pm
by Sonny
KnoxVegas wrote: Is that what you call no being drafted?


I thought he wasn't drafted by the NFL because he said he wanted to play in the NBA exclusively.

PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:06 pm
by SElaxalum
I believe Charlie Ward chose the NBA because most NFL scouts wanted to make him a defensive back. If I remember correctly, he was projected as a late first to early second round pick.

Didnt Couch win it a couple years ago from kentucky? He'd be my bust if so.

PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:10 pm
by Jay Wisnieski
My vote goes to Archie Griffin. How can someone who won 2 Heismans and still did nothing in the pros not get my vote?