Top 50 College Defensive Players of All Time

[BuffetParrothead]

PITT's Hugh Greene weighs in at # 16.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nc...-all-time/ss-BBPVo0G?ocid=spartandhp#image=50

I never realized the Northwestern coach - Fitzgerald was one of the great college LB's

Should other PITT defensive players be on this list??

"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!

Merry Christmas to All!

 

[DiehardPanther]

PITT's Hugh Greene weighs in at # 16.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nc...-all-time/ss-BBPVo0G?ocid=spartandhp#image=50

I never realized the Northwestern coach - Fitzgerald was one of the great college LB's

"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!

Merry Christmas to All!

That was alphabetical order. It wasn’t numerical.

 

[BuffetParrothead]

That was alphabetical order. It wasn’t numerical.

ok I just saw 16 of 50 and you're it is alpha order so maybe he's #1.

 

[PittSqueak]

As Aaron Donald continues to make a joke of NFL DPOY awards and starts getting compared more regularly to all-time greats like Lawrence Taylor (It's already happening: LINK), I think there will be a more serious look at his place as an all-timer in college. His stats at Pitt were WAY better than Suh's at Nebraska, he had less talent beside him than Suh did so he was double-teamed more while earning those stats, and it's clear in the NFL that he is better ... yet Suh's hype while in college was so huge he's still considered the better college player. Over time this will change and AD will be on these types of lists.

EDIT/ADDITION: I believe AD's change in perception as a college great will be similar to Jerry Rice's ascent to "college legend" status over time after being only the 16th pick in the '85 draft coming out of a D2 school (and only the 3rd WR picked in that draft). As his skills in the NFL became clearer & clearer, his crazy stats in college were eventually re-examined as being truly reflective of his abilities at the time, to the point he's now considered one of the best 2-3 college WR's ever.

 

[steelcurtain55.]

Keith Jackson said Hugh Green and Red Grange were the 2 best players in CFB history.

 

[pbrad]

Ron Cook doesn't like any PITT players being on the list.

 

[King Of All Message Boards]

If Hugh Green would have done what he did in the last 15 years he’d have won the Heisman - handily. But unfortunately in his day that was an impossibility. He was as good as it got in college - an absolute terror.

 

[FIVE4PITT]

Safety Bob Jury was a heck of a player in college.

 

[McKee Place]

Rickey Jackson not too shabby at Pitt either (in the NFL hall of fame) and a not insignificant reason for Hugh's success. That said, Hugh was transcendent.

 

[wbrpanther]

PITT's Hugh Greene weighs in at # 16.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nc...-all-time/ss-BBPVo0G?ocid=spartandhp#image=50

I never realized the Northwestern coach - Fitzgerald was one of the great college LB's

Should other PITT defensive players be on this list??

"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!

Merry Christmas to All!

Sixteen???? I am not going to bother opening this link just to get pissed off and agitated.

 

[wbrpanther]

Sixteen???? I am not going to bother opening this link just to get pissed off and agitated.

EDIT: I just saw where this was alphabetical so I withdraw my rant. For the time being.

 

[Panther Parrothead]

That was alphabetical order. It wasn’t numerical.

Glad that you noted that. Any such list that didn't have Hugh Green in its Top Three would have zero credibility.

 

[BuffetParrothead]

Sixteen???? I am not going to bother opening this link just to get pissed off and agitated.

Apparentlly Greene is 16 because the list is in alpha order.
I thought it was in ranking order so PITT's Greene could be #1!

 

[Las Panteras]

Max Gruder

 

[sonofabit]

LT in same breath as Hugh. Then a drop off. Selmon, Stillwagon, Reid. I didn't open the link because my mind still works and I think and remember for myself.