Over on maroonblood there is a thread going on of people's favorite Griz of all time, and I thought it would be interesting to find out who some favorite players of teams fanbases are. If you want, feel free to do an Offensive & Defensive player, or even a top 3,5,10, whatever.
For the Griz, my favorite player was someone I watched growing up and just basically thought he was plain awesome.
Yohance Humphery
4,070 Career Rushing Yards
43 Career Rushing Touchdowns
Averaged 138.2, 116.1, and 110.4 yards rushing in three of his season.
He wasn't extremely fast, even self-admittedly, was actually quite slow for a runningback, but he ran hard, was a workhorse, carried the ball 38 times against Weber State in 2001, where he also ran for 265 yards and 4 touchdowns.
He was just a beast, and was my favorite player from age 9-12 and continued to be until now.
I know favorite players will vary from fan to fan, but that's what I'm looking for.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:17 pm
by JohnStOnge
I can't narrow it down to one. I'm thinking Buford Jordan, Kerry Joseph, Hadley Prince, and Luke Lawton right now. Heck, I liked Derrick Fourroux a lot too. I'll have to think about it.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:25 pm
by ODUalum11
ODU has only had football for 2 years so its hard to say who my favorite player is so far but if I really had to choose...
Colby Goodwyn, he was only a true freshman last year but he did a lot of great things for the Monarchs....
2010:
Made 23 kick returns for a total of 686 yards...Averaged 29.8 yards per return to rank fourth among all FCS kick returners...Set the Division I record (FBS or FCS) for kickoff return yardage in a game with 333 yards in his nine returns against #14/16 Cal Poly...The old mark was 326 by Eastern Washington's Bashir Livingston on Oct. 31, 1998. The FBS record is 319 by Iowa State's Leonard Johnson on Nov. 1, 2008...Helped Old Dominion set the record for most kickoff return yardage by a team (365 yards on 11 returns)...Had an 89-yard kickoff return against the Mustangs as the longest return by a Monarch to-date... Would later have a 79-yard kick return against #14/16 Cal Poly for the third-longest kick return in the brief history of ODU football...Also carried the ball 41 times for 186 yards and three touchdowns...Had scores in games with Campbell, #12/13 William & Mary, and future CAA opponent Georgia State...
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:11 pm
by easterntennhen
Tie between two early eighties quarterbacks. Rich Gannon and rick scully both had great Delaware careers. I saw Gannon do things that I had to see again on film to believe, and sculls was a local high school star( Christiana HS) who was a wizard running tubby's Delaware wing-T. Great memories.
Once in a while Ronald imagines that somehow Charlene is aware of what he has accomplished. After a two-touchdown, 116-yard rushing performance last Saturday in undefeated Lehigh's 42-35 victory over Delaware, Jean is second in Division I-AA in scoring (90 points in six games) and is 10th in rushing (127.6 yards per game). Jean and senior quarterback Phil Stambaugh, who's second in Division I-AA in passing efficiency, spearhead a high-powered offense that has produced 18 consecutive regular-season victories.
Overall: 11 Danny White, QB-P, Arizona State (WAC), Memphis Southmen (WFL), Dallas Cowboys (NFL)
Sac State: 16 Garrett White, QB-WR-RB
UOP: 13 Graham Leigh, QB (Took New Mexico to Insight.com Bowl and played for Birmingham Thunderbolts [XFL])
Sacramento Sirens: 20 Amy Williams SS-RB-QB
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:22 pm
by cats2506
Travis Lulay
And although I never got to see him play, (played before I was born) Sonny Holland is one of my favorites, when I was little he was the MSU coach and I still remember listening to his radio show each week. Sonny played on MSU's 56' NAIA National Championship team, and was the Head Coach of MSU's 1976 DII National Championship team.
The way he had some speed, yet could just plow through people.
Rightfully earning the name Big diesel.
He didnt juke and jive to make tacklers miss, he punched them in the face and ran them over.
The icing on the cake is that he is from West Fargo, North Dakota.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:57 am
by Big McLargehuge
Dave Dickenson. He may have been a senior when I was 9...and I grew up in 2,000+ miles away...but I watched that championship game over semi-local Marshall and was won over.
Also my hatred of Randy Moss transcends every level and team he ever played for.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:48 am
by Gil Dobie
Jeff Bentrim, QB on 3 NC's, first Harlon Hill Award winner, college football hall of famer.
Also author of one of the greatest pitches in option football history
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Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:03 am
by EWURanger
I assume this is favorite player of all time, from the school of which you are a fan of. So, with that said, this guy:
Meyer was a two-time All-American at EWU and was named the Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Year as a junior and senior. He was the 2005 Walter Payton Award Winner. Meyer became just the 12th player in FCS history to throw for at least 4,000 yards in a single season (he finished with 4,003 in 2005). He also had 30 touchdowns, just five interceptions and a passing efficiency rating of 169.3. With a completion percentage of .657, 10,261 yards, 84 touchdowns and just 17 interceptions in 42 career games, Meyer broke the FCS record for efficiency rating by quarterbacks with at least 400 completions with a rating of 166.47. Meyer became just the 17th player in FCS history to pass for more than 10,000 yards in his career. He still holds the school's career record for passing efficiency, and at one time held records for attempts, completions, yards and touchdown passes that were broken by Matt Nichols (996-of-1608 for 12,616 yards and 96 touchdowns from 2006-09). Meyer also held the team's total offense record with 10,942 yards, but that was broken by the 13,308 of Nichols. Meyer holds all three school records for completion percentage -- 90.5 percent versus Northern Arizona on 10/9/04, 67.8 percent in 2004 and 65.7 percent in his career. Meyer also holds the single season efficiency record at 171.4 in 2004, a year before he also set school records that still stand with 4,003 passing yards and 333.6 yards per game.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:15 am
by EWURanger
cats2506 wrote:
Travis Lulay
Meh, I prefer this one.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:42 am
by SuperHornet
So modern EWU fan like Meyer over BLM, who actually got the Chipper?
(Not intended as smack. Just trying to figure you guys out. As you well know, my brain sometimes works in weird ways.)
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:18 am
by BearIt
Lurch (Scott Gragg)
I used to love the way he would get the crowd and the team going with his sideline antics.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:46 am
by Catattack
No way I can name just one.
A couple guys that were asst. coaches on my high school team. My position coach my SR. year was Tom White a WR from the '84 champ. team. The other was Bret Chapman, a tough as nails wrestler and DB for the Cats.
A couple that stick out from the Cats are Tony Bode and Mark Fellows. Most of my favorites come from Bozeman including Corey Widmer, Mark D'Agastino, and Dane Fletcher.
Funny aside, is that I played with 2 future NFL players(Corey Widmer & Shane Collins) in high school and we won a total of 2 games my JR. and SR. seasons.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:56 am
by cats2506
Catattack wrote:No way I can name just one.
A couple guys that were asst. coaches on my high school team. My position coach my SR. year was Tom White a WR from the '84 champ. team. The other was Bret Chapman, a tough as nails wrestler and DB for the Cats.
A couple that stick out from the Cats are Tony Bode and Mark Fellows. Most of my favorites come from Bozeman including Corey Widmer, Mark D'Agastino, and Dane Fletcher.
Funny aside, is that I played with 2 future NFL players(Corey Widmer & Shane Collins) in high school and we won a total of 2 games my JR. and SR. seasons.
Cory and Mark would probably be in my top 5 too.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:21 am
by SDHornet
While I was a student, Fred Amey was out lightning rod and really the only reason to go and watch a Hornet game during the horrific Moosh era. Dangerous returner as well as a threat at WR.
4,049 total receiving yards on 248 receptions (16.3 receiving avg) with 27 TD's.
1,687 kick off return yards on 81 attempts.
573 punt return yards on 65 attempts.
But Charles Roberts is hands down the favorite player of all time.
6,553 total rushing yards on 1,124 attempts (5.8 rushing avg) with 56 TD's.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:09 pm
by Screamin_Eagle174
EWURanger wrote:
cats2506 wrote:
Travis Lulay
Meh, I prefer this one.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:12 pm
by Screamin_Eagle174
SuperHornet wrote:So modern EWU fan like Meyer over BLM, who actually got the Chipper?
(Not intended as smack. Just trying to figure you guys out. As you well know, my brain sometimes works in weird ways.)
If Erik Meyer were our QB last year with the rest of the team the same, we would've been 14-1 and blown a lot of people out. BLM didn't win the chipper, our team did. BLM just led the way. Meyer is hands-down a much better QB/player.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:15 pm
by OL FU
First on the list - Stanford Jennings
Graduated 83 and help start our four year winning streak agains the big boys with USC and Ga Tech games.
Second -
Louis Ivory Walter Payton winner 2000
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:20 pm
by Screamin_Eagle174
For me, it's a tossup between Meyer and Taiwan. Both were/are outstanding players in their own regard, and helped our team to national prominence. Meyer was like a surgeon with his accuracy and decision-making, just shredding defenses pass after pass. He threw the best deep ball of any QB I've seen at EWU as well (granted I've only seen Meyer, Peerboom, Nichols, Smart, Gauthier and Mitchell play in a game). You have to love what TJ did as well... there won't be another player in the Big Sky or maybe even the country who could just ran past everyone and have the chance to score on every play, for a long long time. There isn't a whole lot more exciting than watching him stop at the line when the hole closes up, take it outside and just out run everyone. Or cut it on a dime making guys miss, bouncing and spinning off others and then turning on the jets again.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:14 pm
by andy7171
This kid was a flat out bad ass back in the day.
His senior year in 1993, his offensive line only gave up 4 sack in close to 2000 attempts AND his running back ran for over 2K yards.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:23 pm
by Screamin_Eagle174
andy7171 wrote:This kid was a flat out bad ass back in the day.
His senior year in 1993, his offensive line only gave up 4 sack in close to 2000 attempts AND his running back ran for over 2K yards.
He looks like a gay.
Re: Your favorite player of all time
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:26 pm
by andy7171
Screamin_Eagle174 wrote:
andy7171 wrote:This kid was a flat out bad ass back in the day.
His senior year in 1993, his offensive line only gave up 4 sack in close to 2000 attempts AND his running back ran for over 2K yards.
He looks like a gay.
Just keep sucking other guys dicks, hero worshiper.
