Recently Keith over at the NBC Sports Inside the Irish blog posed a question to some ND football fans, myself included. To paraphrase, Keith asked us what our Top 25 ranking of Irish football players would look like. And he asked us to keep in mind that this was sort of a "power ranking" in which we weren't deciding on "importance" so much as "current displays of football playing prowess." So with that in mind, check out my submission of the 25th through 21st players on the Irish roster here along with thoughts from Keith, and ND bloggers representing UHND.com, ClashmoreMike.com, and RakesofMallow.com. I'll also quote myself thusly...
25. Duval Kamara, WR: The senior is only on the list at all because of what he did his freshman year.
24. Kerry Neal, OLB: Looked like a spark of hope in 2007's 3-9 campaign, and then he disappeared.
23. Dayne Crist, QB: This is low because he hasn't done anything -- yet -- and we enjoy meteoric rises.
22. Mike Ragone, TE: Tiiiime is no longer on your side...
21. Robert Hughes, RB: Had one of the very few 100+ yard rushing games on this roster -- three years ago.
So go check out Keith's feature, with the other rankings, and then let us know who you think should rank 21-25 here in the comments and/or over at Inside the Irish in their comments. Later this week, I'll add some flourishes to my arguments beyond the one-liners Keith requisitioned and may even reveal if you the readers or the other bloggers managed to get me to rethink my rankings. (I've got the entire 25 ranked and listed in my head already.)
By The Biscuit July 13, 2010 - 4:04 pm
DMQ, stealing the spotlight with the Fancy NBC guys as always. I’ll just be down here with the regular folks should you decide to spend some time in the trenches…
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By SDI July 13, 2010 - 8:47 pm
21 Kamara
22 Evans
23 Wood
24 Goodman
25 Louis Nix III
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By domer_mq July 14, 2010 - 2:22 pm
I’ll give you one hint about my overall list: I don’t think I included anyone who has 0 PT in their CFB careers.
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By SDI July 14, 2010 - 3:57 pm
by PT you mean playing time right? I thought a few guys had such huge potential I had to put them on the list. It was either that, or list someone like Dan Wenger or Hafis Williams and I just couldn’t justify putting them in the top 25 based on anything they have done, or probably will do.
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By domer_mq July 14, 2010 - 8:30 am
Don’t you guys all go ranking your T25 at once now. Wouldn’t want the comments section under this post to get too crowded.
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By trey July 14, 2010 - 11:31 am
Im curious where youll put Gary Gray. His frosh season kind of showed he could be amazing, but last season…pffft.
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By domer_mq July 14, 2010 - 2:23 pm
Gray was a real enigma to me. I placed him arbitrarily on the list because he was about the 3rd person to come to mind, but then he kept moving all over the list as others were added.
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By SDI July 14, 2010 - 4:08 pm
I thought that given the chaos that was swirling around him, G.Gray had a pretty good season last year. His interception against SC was huge–almost a game breaker. I have him in my top 15.
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By The Biscuit July 14, 2010 - 12:25 pm
Louis Nix III is #1 on every list except the list of “Guys Named Louis Nix”, where he falls 3rd.
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By domer_mq July 14, 2010 - 2:25 pm
Nix didn’t make the cut on my list.
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