Bulldogs’ ‘Perfect Ten’?
Making lists: the college football fan’s midsummer way of passing the time until preseason practice begins. There’s been a lot of “all-time” this and “greatest” that lists of late (including here). Maybe by summer’s end we can compile our Top 20 Favorite Lists (just kidding).
Anyway, SouthernPigskin.com has been running a “Perfect Ten” series in which it ranks the 10 best players since 1975 for various Southern schools. Why since 1975? Well, as they put it: “These post-Vietnam War rankings, if you will, will help showcase the best of the best in the relatively modern era of Southern college football.”
In other words, that’s just where they felt like starting.
So now it’s the Dogs’ turn. The site’s UGA “Perfect Ten” list, heavily weighted toward the offensive side, looks like this:
1. Herschel Walker, RB (1980-1982)
2. David Pollack, DE (2001-2004)
3. Terry Hoage, S (1980-1983)
4. David Greene, QB (2001-2004)
5. Champ Bailey, CB (1996-1998)
6. Garrison Hearst, RB (1990-1992)
7. Eric Zeier, QB (1991-1994)
8. Matt Stinchcomb, OT (1995-1998)
9. Knowshon Moreno, RB (2006-2008)
10. Kevin Butler, K (1981-1984)
What do you think? I’d say there’s no way you could argue against Walker, Pollack, Hoage, Bailey, Hearst, Stinchcomb or Butler, all highly decorated and All-Americans. Greene, I’d tend to include since he’s the winningest NCAA QB ever. Zeier played on some crappy teams and still racked up amazing numbers, so he probably belongs, too. Moreno was a fantastic back but his record feels incomplete. Does he belong in such company ahead of, say, Tim Worley? Should there be another defensive player on there, maybe Greg Blue? But who should he replace? Feel free to share your thoughts. …
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Allyugadawg
July 13th, 2009
10:38 am
How could any top ten list for Georgia not include Hines Ward?
swimdawg68
July 13th, 2009
10:50 am
Thomas Davis would be on my list. He now plays for Carolina. With only 2 yrs of playing time I cannot include Moreno, besides, he has yet to prove himself in the NFL.
Dark Helmet
July 13th, 2009
10:59 am
#11 Reggie Ball.
Dark Helmet
July 13th, 2009
11:02 am
Where is Thomas Davis?
Fort Worth Dawg
July 13th, 2009
11:05 am
Hoage for Heisman!
82dawg
July 13th, 2009
11:24 am
I would probably have Hines Ward number 3 and remove Moreno. As good as Moreno was he only played two years and left as a RS Sophmore. I think you do need an honorable mention list – Moreno, Matt Stafford, Rodney Hampton, Scott Woerner, Freddie Gilbert, Jimmy Payne, Tim Worley, Willie McLendon, Rex Robinson, Richard Tarditz, Thomas Davis, Ray Donaldson, Nat Hudson, Mo Lewis, Randall Godfrey, Terence Edwards, Mo Massaquoi, Leonard Pope, to name a few.
Oh but how could we forget, the greatest of all time ….. Reggie Ball!!! Talk about Theron Sapp getting his jersey retired for beating Tech ONCE, Reggie Ball did it FOUR times! Its time to retire Reggie’s Jersey and put it right where it belongs, next to Walker, Sapp, Trippy and Sinkwich’s!
82dawg
July 13th, 2009
11:27 am
Sorry, make that Trippi.
Bryan G.
July 13th, 2009
11:31 am
Greg Blue was a terrible coverage safety. Sean Jones and Thomas Davis were much better safeties. Hell, even Kentrell Curry was better before he got hurt.
I agree with some of the above, though. How can Hines Ward not be on the list? I believe he holds the UGA record for (both) receptions in a bowl game AND passing yards in a bowl game. Now that’s impressive.
MaconKnight
July 13th, 2009
11:31 am
Moreno was a great back but he does not belong on this list.. Top Ten how can you make this list and not include Thomas Davis, Richard Seymour, and Terrell Davis.. just because of pro career. (people still can’t believe he would go on to have the NFL career he had). in my opinion Worley, Hampton were better backs than Moreno. To leave Hines Ward out is absurd.
Lifelongdawg
July 13th, 2009
11:31 am
Ive been going to games in Athens for 37 yrs…a min of 3-4 games per yr. There are just a few Athletes that Ive seen that were quite above everyone else. Herch,Champ,Hines Ward,Pollack…and even Robert Edwards, These guys could play more than one position if needed and still play a level above everyone at the position. Robert Edwards’ injuries held back what could have been an elite UGA run. He played defensive back his freshman yr and would have been All SEC in a matter of time…but we needed him at RB. He was an amazing player when healthy. He nearly single handedly beat much favored TN one night in Knoxville..until an injury took him off the field.
MaconKnight
July 13th, 2009
11:35 am
Bill,
How did you come up with your top ten?
coachdawg 2000
July 13th, 2009
11:36 am
Moreno, though electrifying, did not do enough for long enough to qualify. Drops and all, Terrence Edwards re-wrote the SEC record book and was an outstanding Dawg with little else in the receiving corps (Fred Gibson was very inconsistent and the tight ends really blossomed because of T. Edwards not vice versa). He gets overlooked, but shouldn’t. AJ may be better, but right now he holds the records. Give me DJ shockley over Zeier,the stats i care about SEC championships 1-0.
Saint Simons
July 13th, 2009
11:38 am
45-42!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Disgruntled Dawg
July 13th, 2009
11:39 am
Lets quit talking about past history and lets see if the dogs can make new history thats been long over due like beating Florida consistently and thumping teams like Vandy and South Carolina. We already blog about UGA greats a few days ago… ENOUGH ALREADY !
coachdawg 2000
July 13th, 2009
11:42 am
I agree Robert Edwards was special. Had injuries not stopped him he would have been a consensus pick as best back since Herschel. He had speed and power combo. Hines Ward was simply fantastic in everything he did for the dawgs. My sophmore year at UGA 1997 he took a fake punt 88 yards against NE louisiana. It was hilarious! Fake punt on your won 12, Donnan was fun to watch at times.
coachdawg 2000
July 13th, 2009
11:46 am
Disgruntled-
Take some metamucil and get over yourself. Please tell me who are we going to get to come coach the team if we run off Richt? You are the kind of fan who wants to fire coaches from week to week. When we win i love the coach, when we lose fire his butt! Not everybody wins every week. We don’t want to become Auburn. Force the HC to fire coordinators and then run him off with no replacement.
Disgruntled Dawg
July 13th, 2009
11:48 am
Yeah Coachdawg Donnan was fun at times. BTW when was the last time UGA ran a trick play that it didnt blow up in our face….
Disgruntled Dawg
July 13th, 2009
11:53 am
Coach dawg I guess Florida fans wondered the same thing before they gut Oscar Meyer. LSU when they got LES. So JUST Chillax coachdawg and go relieve yourself in pounding the porcelain.
Disgruntled Dawg
July 13th, 2009
11:57 am
Coachdawg 2000….. I guess Florida fans thought the same thing before they got Oscar Meyer. same with LSU after Nick Satan left. Chillax coachdawg and relieve yourself and go pound the porcelain…..
RxDawg
July 13th, 2009
11:58 am
“Maybe Gregg Blue?”
Ummmmmm, seriously? I don’t understand the infactuation (sp?) with Blue. Yeh, his name was fun to yell in the stands, yeh he could really lay into someone if he wasn’t juked. But come on guys, he was not that great of a defensive player. He played during my student years, and thus during a time when I personaly attended many UGA games. I saw him blow coverage after coverage all the time. He was a mediocre saftey at best and really didn’t compare to Thomas Davis in the slightest.
Honestly Bill, I’m not sure what made you make that comment unless it was on purpose to generate some discusion.
..PS, nothing against Blue. He was a fine football player and a fine Dawg.
Huh?
July 13th, 2009
12:01 pm
Disgruntled Dawg actually had some credibility there for a second until the Les Miles comment. He got greedy.
I digress. It does seem that Hines Ward gets the shaft on these lists.
coachdawg 2000
July 13th, 2009
12:02 pm
I get as frustrated as anybody. I hate the way more often than not we soil ourselves in Jacksonville, and losing to tech EVER is inexcusable. But if you look around the country who would we get. There is no way that we get somebody like Will Muschamp $900,000 a year/coach-in-wating. I don’t want some yankee that has no relationships with the southern football coaches. Sometimes the next thing isn’t the best. I do get irked with Richt crying about Jacksonville and feel I would like it if he instead assumed a posture of we don’t care if have to play in a phone botth we are going to kick their backsides until the final whistle. Our attitude isn’t right regarding the Gators. Richt needs to read the Bible story of David and golaith. He didn’t say goliath is closer to his home so we need to move our battle. He said who is this uncircumcised phillistine that blasphems my God! So let’s hope Richt goes Old Testament on their butts.
Fools Gold
July 13th, 2009
12:08 pm
You dawg fans need to understand that you merely have had a smoke and mirrors football program under CMR. Willie is a bald headed galoot. BOO BOO aint much better.
RAMBLE ON!!!
July 13th, 2009
12:08 pm
3 arrested for attempted robbery at GT, no word yet if they have played football for the Universtiy of Georgia.
coachdawg 2000
July 13th, 2009
12:09 pm
I can never figure out what was so special about Zeier. The only Stats that count are wins and losses. We didn’t win an SEC championship with him. heck mike bobo beat florida once, I will always say 1992 was the best team Georgia has had in the last 25 years. I like EZ but dang what did he do but pad stats in the “Air Georgia” era?
coachdawg 2000
July 13th, 2009
12:10 pm
Any coaching move that the geeks are in favor of tells you it is a mistake. They have made the mistake of waking the sleeping giant.
dwayne
July 13th, 2009
12:16 pm
Reggie Ball should be #1
m
July 13th, 2009
12:25 pm
chan gomer gailey should be #1…he is the best coach ugag ever had.
But guess what….all good things must come to an end.
Thanks to God and Greyhound, you dawgies no longer have chan gomer gailey to kick around anymore.
There is a new sheriff in town…his name is Paul Johnson.
45-42…just the beginning.
1eyedJack
July 13th, 2009
12:45 pm
Scott Woerner
JaxDawg
July 13th, 2009
12:53 pm
While Kevin Butler was a great kicker and won some big games for us, it’s hard to have a kicker on any list like this when it means leaving off the likes of H.Ward, Thomas Davis, T.Edwards, S.Woerner, “Meatcleaver Weaver” etc… As a kicker were his contributions greater than those just mentioned? If you had a choice of not having K.Butler on his teams or the three I just mentioned, I don’t think many would pick Butler over any of those players.
BS Patrol
July 13th, 2009
12:53 pm
What? Jasper Sanks not even on the list?
Joe Smaha
July 13th, 2009
1:07 pm
It is impossible to create such a list by naming just a top 10 since you leave out some of the best Georgia players from years past. If you are going to create a top 10 list and you want to recognize the best players, then do it by top 10 of each decade so that the players who played in the 40’s,50.s 60’s and 70’s have a chance against players from their own era and not have the top 10 list be composed of more modern players just because the current younger fans have no memory or recollection of the older players.
dawgstephen
July 13th, 2009
1:20 pm
I think leaving Hines Ward off that list is a shame. A BIG shame. Bill, i will give ya a pass on this one, i think you just had a senior moment. I love ur blog, keep up the good work.
http://www.dawgstephen.blogspot.com
SavannahDawg
July 13th, 2009
1:34 pm
Hines Ward and Max Jean Gilles should be included
Cuz
July 13th, 2009
1:39 pm
The UGA perfect 10 was Bobbie Eakes. Miss Georgia 1982. Fouth place in the Miss America padget in 1982. An actress on the Bold and Beautiful and All My Children. And drop dead gorgeous at 7:50 AM in my Fitness for Life PE class every morning. I made that class every day that quarter.
BugKiller
July 13th, 2009
1:56 pm
WHERE THE HELL IS HINES WARD!!!???
Cuz
July 13th, 2009
2:00 pm
Drop Knowshon and Butler. Add Hines Ward and Scott Woerner.
Huh?
July 13th, 2009
2:04 pm
I mean good lord, didn’t Hines Ward play his entire UGA career with a freaking ligament missing from one of his knees? That alone should put him in the top 10.
SuperB
July 13th, 2009
2:49 pm
To quote the great Munson:
Woerner….Woerner….Woerner!
or…
Lindsay Scott…Lindsay Scott… Lindsay Scott!
KaliDogg
July 13th, 2009
2:52 pm
JAKE SCOTT
FLDAWG
July 13th, 2009
2:53 pm
How many different ways can you do this? Same stuff that was posted last week with the same people talking the same smack about who should and should not be on the list. Got anything new?????
John Tucker
July 13th, 2009
3:03 pm
Eliminate Eric Zeir and replace him with Matthew Stafford.
DunwoodyDawg
July 13th, 2009
3:10 pm
Umm, KaliDogg Jake Scott played in the 60s. I agree with the folks pushing Hines Ward.
Dan
July 13th, 2009
3:13 pm
Robert Edwards, DJ Shockley he won 2 SEC titles and took a team NO ONE expected and won a title
Smashmouth
July 13th, 2009
3:14 pm
Take Moreno off the list. Glad that showboat is gone. Stafford & Moreno both knew that they were going pro after the season ended and it showed early on in the season. I’d rather see Brannon Southerland on the list than Moreno… without our stud fullbacks how many of those showboat runs would have been stopped at the line of scrimmage?
swimdawg68
July 13th, 2009
3:17 pm
Hey Saint Simons, 7-1 hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Your post has become very old, obviously you failed to develop your mind at the trade school.
N.GA.DAWG
July 13th, 2009
3:24 pm
Can’t wait til nov28 when we eliminate the gnats.
Bill King
July 13th, 2009
3:27 pm
Dawgstephen,
As anyone who’s read this blog for a while knows, I’m a longtime fan of Hines Ward. He’s one of my favorite Dogs of all time. I didn’t compile the “Perfect Ten,” the folks at SouthernPigskin did. And in my comments after the list, I wasn’t trying to provide a comprehensive list of every player who might deserve a place on the list. I just mentioned a couple.
But, yes, to all Hines Ward fans, I’m with you. I’m one of you. Hines belongs on the Perfect Ten!
JDB
July 13th, 2009
3:30 pm
Smashmouth
don’t let your bitterness that he left ruin your memory of Moreno. I wouldn’t pass up that much money either. I just hope there is someone on this year’s team who can provide the spark Moreno did, regardless of whether or not he deserves to be a part of the all time top 10. Sometimes it was showboating, but other times it was all out grit and determination that was contagious.
Ramble On!!
July 13th, 2009
3:31 pm
The funny thing that I forgot to mention is that other than Reggie Ball, Georgia Tech doesn’t have a player that would be in UGA’s Top 50.