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DLUXHOG

May 08, 2014, 06:09:36 pm
Roland Sales???   Ike Forte???  Jerry Eckwood????   Your thoughts?
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Poker_hog

May 08, 2014, 06:36:13 pm #1
Shabazz

/thread
Sometimes wrong, but never in doubt
 

PygmalionEffect

May 08, 2014, 06:38:28 pm #2
yes

and

Ben Cowins, James Rouse, Cedric Cobbs, Dickey Morton

All great college RBs that couldn't make the transition for some reason.

Eckwood made it, he just got injured in an era when they couldn't fix a knee once you broke it.

James Rouse might be the biggest disappointment of that group in terms of his hype coming out of high school.  I don't remember any injury problems but that was a long time ago, so maybe there were reasons.
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rupert

May 08, 2014, 06:43:00 pm #3
Eckwood....a sad story for sure...

TomasPistola

May 08, 2014, 06:43:36 pm #4
Vin Ascolese
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porkchopsdontfloat

May 08, 2014, 06:55:08 pm #5
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WilsonHog

May 08, 2014, 06:58:43 pm #6
Quote from: rupert on May 08, 2014, 06:43:00 pm
Eckwood....a sad story for sure...

Definitely. An unbelievable talent.

Ugly Uncle

May 08, 2014, 07:01:58 pm #7
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bolo

May 08, 2014, 07:15:06 pm #8
mustain
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"Pickled" Pig's Pete

May 08, 2014, 07:30:13 pm #9
Billy Warren should get some consideration as a talent cut short by injury...
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pignparadise

May 08, 2014, 07:58:39 pm #10
Larry Gardner. Averaged 25.1 tackles for a 10 game season. Had 39 tackles in one game against state champ Hot Springs Lakeside. Both are still state records more than 40 years later. In todays recruiting world he would have been a 5 star. Signed with Arkansas in 1975 and got into dispute with Linebacker coach Harold Horton and left the Razorbacks. His one on one linebacker drills with Dennis Dirt Winston when Larry was a freshman are still stuff of legend.
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jseinfeld50

May 08, 2014, 08:24:56 pm #11
Eckwood and Shabazz. Have heard people say Keniko Logan.  Marcus Jefferson (LB) from Pine Bluff.

TOM "tbw1"

May 08, 2014, 08:27:40 pm #12
Leon "Muscles" Campbell.  Never healthy as a Razorback.
Well see, there's your problem. What you should be thinking is, what would Harry Rex do?
 

Pigsknuckles

May 08, 2014, 10:41:29 pm #13
I can't believe the name Matt Jones hasn't yet come up. Hands down was my favorite Razorback to watch, and the one I had the highest hopes for in the bigs. And now, one of my biggest disappointments.
"the ox is slow, but the Earth is patient"

yraciv

May 08, 2014, 10:48:59 pm #14
Cedric Cobbs

yraciv

May 08, 2014, 10:50:46 pm #15
Someone needs to clarify what the best that never was is? Best not to pan out in college or best not to pan out in the pros?

Wild Bill Hog

May 08, 2014, 11:15:06 pm #16
Quote from: bolo on May 08, 2014, 07:15:06 pm
mustain

This was the one I was thinking about.

Wild Bill Hog

May 08, 2014, 11:15:38 pm #17
Quote from: yraciv on May 08, 2014, 10:50:46 pm
Someone needs to clarify what the best that never was is? Best not to pan out in college or best not to pan out in the pros?

Valid point.

CDBHawg

May 08, 2014, 11:19:17 pm #18
Al Jefferson

Sed76

May 08, 2014, 11:21:46 pm #19
I thought Mark Pierce was going to become a beast for us.

rusvegashog

May 09, 2014, 12:27:34 am #20
Shabazz. For me it will always be Madre Hill. The Matt Jones deal still perplexes me though?

secfan30

May 09, 2014, 12:55:01 am #21
Quote from: Poker_hog on May 08, 2014, 06:36:13 pm
Shabazz

/thread

Best athlete, maybe Matt Jones was close thanks to his size and speed, just didn't have the grades... What could have been

jseinfeld50

May 09, 2014, 09:52:42 am #22
Vin Ascolese and Lloyd "World" B. Free

SDZ_Hog

May 09, 2014, 10:06:27 am #23
Madre Hill, Dedrick Poole, Cedric Cobbs
 

Großer Kriegschwein

May 09, 2014, 11:07:55 am #24
Quote from: Ched "UglyUncle" Carpenter on May 08, 2014, 07:01:58 pm
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ldfergu

May 09, 2014, 11:08:56 am #25
Mallett?

So far anyways, really hope he gets traded today

PorkRinds

May 09, 2014, 11:18:42 am #26
Quote from: jseinfeld50 on May 08, 2014, 08:24:56 pm
Eckwood and Shabazz. Have heard people say Keniko Logan.  Marcus Jefferson (LB) from Pine Bluff.

Keniko was amazing to watch.  I watched him play starting in junior high, and the dude was just a beast.  Too bad he's in prison for murder.

TrueBlue

May 09, 2014, 11:26:52 am #27
Gary Brashears

TrueBlue

May 09, 2014, 11:27:27 am #28
Willie Cutts

TrueBlue

May 09, 2014, 11:28:42 am #29
Robert Shields

East TN HAWG

May 09, 2014, 11:31:14 am #30
Savage from Plano. 

Fatmanhog

May 09, 2014, 11:40:15 am #31
William Mills
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Soonerman12

May 09, 2014, 12:23:31 pm #32
Ever? Marcus Dupree and it's not close.

Hogs? Shabazz.

PharmacistHog

May 09, 2014, 01:18:49 pm #33
Quote from: GA reddiehog on May 18, 2019, 12:36:02 pm<br />Hogs have hit a wall at the wrong time of the season.  I will go on record now and say they may not even get out of their regional.  The hitting has been carrying them with a few good pitching outings but they just don't have the reliable pitching they need to get back to the CWS.<br />
Quote from: GA reddiehog on April 16, 2024, 07:44:38 pmPitching over hyped and hitting nonexistent is going to make for several loses here on out. Maybe it will not be as bad as the BB team. Lack of hitting has been a problem for many moons.

thirrdegreetusker

May 09, 2014, 01:42:13 pm #34
Eckwood.

As a highschooler being recruited, eveyone, all over the country thought he was the equal of Earl Campbell.

Eckwood blew out a disc in his back summer before enrolling at UA. Sent to Canada for some kind of radical (at that time) treatment, consisting of injecting papaya enzyme into the disc to promote rapid recovery. Actually played some toward the end of the 74 season, although, looking back, cannot understand why he did not redshirt.

Took off like gang busters in Fall '75. Was averaging 150 yards a game, and over 7 yards per carry. Then blew out the knee in mid-season.

Rehabbed so hard that he created a muscle imbalance in his "bad" leg, thus triggering a string of hamstring pulls that, just about the time he looked healed, he would pull that hammy again. I do not know if he played a down in Fall 77.

Had a solid season in Fall 78, still averaging close to 7 a carry, all the while throwing ferocious lead blocks for Ben Cowins on sweeps out of the veer.

So talented that Tampa Bay took him in the 3rd round, with the 60th pick, despite all his injuries.  Joe Montana was taken with the 82nd pick.

Eckwood gained over 100 yards in his pro debut, one of only 11 NFL rookies to have ever done so, at that time. Played three years at Tampa Bay, leading them in rushing in 81.

cosmodrum

May 09, 2014, 01:47:11 pm #35
Bobby Petrino
Go away, batin'

old hog

May 09, 2014, 01:48:03 pm #36
  Willie Cutts, Jerry Eckwood, Shannon Wright (sadly), Gary Hobbs and Mark Pierce.

SDZ_Hog

May 09, 2014, 02:17:52 pm #37
Quote from: cosmodrum on May 09, 2014, 01:47:11 pm
Bobby Petrino
Bear Bryant.  Thanks Japan.

rickm1976

May 09, 2014, 03:33:48 pm #38
Jerry Eckwood by a mile.  He could/would have been an NCAA and NFL legend if not for the knee injury.

cosmodrum

May 09, 2014, 03:51:45 pm #39
Quote from: SDZ_Hog on May 09, 2014, 02:17:52 pm
Bear Bryant.  Thanks Japan.

The jerks.
Go away, batin'

icouldntthinkofagoodname

May 09, 2014, 04:09:48 pm #40
dana altman

HornetHog

May 09, 2014, 04:12:50 pm #41
Robert Brannon - Most unbelievable athletic human.
Just as smart as all the other smartarses on here

TMc

May 09, 2014, 06:12:01 pm #42
Thomas Brown

welchog

May 09, 2014, 06:13:59 pm #43
Quote from: PygmalionEffe7uct on May 08, 2014, 06:38:28 pm
yes

and

Ben Cowins, James Rouse, Cedric Cobbs, Dickey Morton

All great college RBs that couldn't make the transition for some reason.

Eckwood made it, he just got injured in an era when they couldn't fix a knee once you broke it.

James Rouse might be the biggest disappointment of that group in terms of his hype coming out of high school.  I don't remember any injury problems but that was a long time ago, so maybe there were reasons.
Rouse had a shoulder that popped out    one minute out...pop...back in

OneTuskOverTheLine™

May 10, 2014, 08:03:07 am #44
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I'm disgusted, but kinda excited. Now I'm disgusted that I'm excited.

razorbackkid

May 10, 2014, 10:29:22 am #45
GRUDEN  :)
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Dirttrackhog

May 11, 2014, 12:28:04 pm #46
All time marcus duprey... I think espn even has a 30 for 30 titled the greatest that never was..

As a hog, Mustain.

Pulled(PP)pork

May 11, 2014, 01:01:39 pm #47
Quote from: Pigsknuckles on May 08, 2014, 10:41:29 pm
I can't believe the name Matt Jones hasn't yet come up. Hands down was my favorite Razorback to watch, and the one I had the highest hopes for in the bigs. And now, one of my biggest disappointments.
not sure he could be considered....he was just lazy and a dopehead. 


PP

Pork Twain

May 11, 2014, 01:40:11 pm #48
Quote from: Pulled(PP)pork on May 11, 2014, 01:01:39 pm
not sure he could be considered....he was just lazy and a dopehead. 


PP
Yup
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Pork Twain

May 11, 2014, 01:40:34 pm #49
Roberto Shields for sure.  Who is he?
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