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Ignazio “Nacho” Albergamo, LSU... 3 time all-SEC center, 2 time All-American, 3 time Academic All-American...players center at 6’3”, 267.

Nacho is now Ignazio Albergamo, M.D., internal medicine specialist, too small to play in the NFL so he took a different route to greatness.

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17 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

Maybe, just maybe, he was posting in the context of your thread and misspoke. And maybe you’re getting negged because people try and pick a fight with you because they expect a volcano to erupt. 

ok rex.

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how about KiKi DeAyala?

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Guys this good should be known by future generations, but i doubt many fans under 40 have even heard of him.


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3 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

how about KiKi DeAyala?

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Guys this good should be known by future generations, but i doubt many fans under 40 have even heard of him.


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Went on to become a successful Houston real estate man and is now a locally prominent "friend of Bill."

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1 hour ago, Goo Punch said:

how about KiKi DeAyala?

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Guys this good should be known by future generations, but i doubt many fans under 40 have even heard of him.


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Still UT’s single-season sack record holder, with fucking 22.5!

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Here's a guy from recent times who I feel like hasn't been talked about since the day he played his last game for Texas, despite him having a pretty damn impressive resume:

•HS All American 

•5* recruit/no.1 in the nation at his position

•All Big XII Freshman Team 

•Two-time 1st team All Big XII

•2012 Big XII DPOY

•2012 First Team All American

•Alamo Bowl MVP with a record 4.5 sacks in the game 

•Played HS ball 15 miles from DKR and led his team to the state title game 

If Alex Okafor played on better teams as a junior and senior he'd be talked about a helluva lot more. 

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1 hour ago, Goo Punch said:

how about KiKi DeAyala?

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Guys this good should be known by future generations, but i doubt many fans under 40 have even heard of him.


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Guy is still big!  He was the builder of a development in Rockport that had a home owners meeting I went to after the hurricane.  Really nice guy also.  

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The RB named Walker, John Walker, I think, from Killeen HS?  He was very successful at Texas, late 70s, early 80s.  He flew over the goal line.  He looked like he had jumped on a trampoline in the backfield.  He was almost a guarantee to get that last yard. 

 

 

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10 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

My mom had the same guru, Swami Baba Muktananda.  Joe Don Looney was kind of a big deal in that scene. 

He certainly lived up to his name.

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Johnny Mack very underrated part of the Tech team with Cumbie who beat shitheel Rodgers, Skittles, and the butthurt Cal Bears in the 2004 Holiday Bowl.

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8 hours ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

Ignazio “Nacho” Albergamo, LSU... 3 time all-SEC center, 2 time All-American, 3 time Academic All-American...players center at 6’3”, 267.

Nacho is now Ignazio Albergamo, M.D., internal medicine specialist, too small to play in the NFL so he took a different route to greatness.

Joseph Albergamo, but yeah that’s a good shout out.  Another o-lineman I always liked off that squad, Ruffin Rodrigue.

The LSU team that won the 1987 Gator Bowl was fucking stacked.  Tommy Hodson, Wendell Davis, Brian Kinchen, Harvey Williams, etc. etc. etc.

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Some a y’all play this game weirdly.  We have a Heisman winner, a first pick overall in the NFL draft, and a first ballot NFL HoFer from the state of Texas, no less.

Y’all are forgetful as shit...

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He broke Ricky's record the very next year. Fell off the map after his first few years in the NFL and I haven't heard of him since and never hear many mention him;
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Dude had what could be another season more carries than Ricky, 209, and 1 fewer touchdown rubs
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Chris Zorich. Guy was a beast.  #90 is Jeff Alm, who killed himself in Houston after being responsible for a car accident that killed a friend. 

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Gordie Lockbaum of Holy Cross fame.  

In college I killed it betting on holy cross that year. Lockbaum was the VY of the Patriot League in that he refused to lose.

I used to laugh and rake in the easy money while my buddy used to “chase the sun” while he kept betting up to catch up and would always end up with the final bet of the day being on Hawaii lulz.../csb

Whither Ramonce Taylor?
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59 minutes ago, Woodrow Call said:

Chris Zorich. Guy was a beast.  #90 is Jeff Alm, who killed himself in Houston after being responsible for a car accident that killed a friend. 

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Zorich ended up being AD at Chicago St in 2018-2019.  That just seemed a bit weird to me...

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Smurf.

 

Heart of a Lion.   From Midland Lee. I saw him play in the Oil Bowl in Wichita Falls and thought that was a great premonition of things to come.   It was.

He is still much beloved among Tech fans.

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Since this is a UT board I am sure most of you guys haven't forgotten about him, but he is my favorite UT player of all time so I have to give him a shout out whenever I can. 

I didn't realize he playing in 2010 I thought he was way older than that. 

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Never liked the Irish but damn if Michael Stonebreaker is not the perfect linebacker name.  Kind of like Terry Steelhammer was for defensive line, but for the good guys.

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8 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

I'll throw a couple of Tech QBs in there.

 

 

 

BJ Symons

Graham Harrell. He used to be the only Tech quarterback anyone ...

That’s Graham Harrell, sir.

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A couple of guys that were dueling it out for the Heisman in the late 80's, Major Harris (WVU) and Tony Rice(ND)

Some dudes around that same time frame from the SWC:

Trevor Cobb- Rice RB and 1991 Doak Walker winner

Chuck "Spoon" Weatherspoon from UH.  Bowling ball RB during the run-n-shoot days.  Ran for 1000 yds each of his last 3 years.

Lloyd Hill, WR at Tech was fun to watch.

Zebbie Letheridge, just because his name is Zebbie.

 

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18 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

who remembers "Famous" Amos Zereoue?

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1996, Hoopies at Pitt Stadium in the opener. Pitt brought back #99.....Hugh Greeeeeen for the game. He's just the greatest college defender I saw play in person. I wrote a nice story about Hugh, he's been raising cattle back home in Mississippi for years.

Anyway, first carry of the game, Amos goes 69 yards for a TD. We lost, 34-0. Amos was very good.

It was the beginning of the worst season ever. We lost to WVU and then 72-0 to the Buckeyes, 45-0 to Miami, 60-6 at ND, 34-17 at Va. Tech, 55-7 at Syracuse, lost to Houston in OT.

But hey, we beat Kent, Temple (53-52), BC and Rutgers. That game with Amos was the beginning of Johnny Majors final season in his return to Pitt. 

I was at every game, and it was brutal.

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15 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Paul Palmer

 

Pitt has had many instances of idiocy. One of them was Mike Gottfried firing the greatest Offensive Line coach of all time, Joe Moore. Moore left Pitt, went to Temple for two seasons before he went out to Notre Dame. The entire Pitt offensive line wanted to transfer to Temple, to play for Moore but he would not let them. Temple came to Pitt Stadium in 1986 & 1987 and won both games.

1986 was behind the running of Paul Palmer, led by a Moore-coached offensive line. Palmer was fantastic and ran for over 1,800 yards that year. The next season Todd McNair ran all over us. Bruce Arians was the Temple head coach at the time.

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