Who's your favorite lesser known Longhorn?

Mine is Beau Trahan. That man did it all - hard hitting safety, emergency QB, holder I believe for extra points, and team captain in 2002. Was always in the right place at the right time, just a solid football player and leader.

Who's your favorite lessor know Horn?

 

When I was a kid Chris Gilbert was my favorite Horn RB. Later on, I really liked Brett Robin. Smallish for a college RB at 5'11" 180, but that dude had heart. I met his mom and sister in Waco after a game, great family.

 

I was literally going to go with Beau. Special teams nightmare for opposing teams. You could only hope to contain him.

 

You can’t miss with Beau.

Anyone remember Philip Geiger or Michael Unger?
Cosmo Palmeri?

 

Some Horn player at that time was asked who he would least like to be enemies with? He said Beau. Something like "Beau would never give up, and would track you down to where you slept".

 

There was a kid after Beau I think that was also a special teams monster. Can't remember his name but he always made the tackle.

 

LB - Tye Allert. Also played special teams. Hard hitting.

Went on to NFL.

 

Unger

 

Nailed it.

 

Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez (known as…”The Rat")

 

There are a lot out there. Mike Luck for the tough small package group. Newt Harrell-West Texas crazy. Shane Dronett-Southeast Texas crazy in the mold of McMichael.

 

Nate Boyer. Great story of personal dedication and intensity.

 

So many, but of late it would be SANTOS! He became a favorite in our group. When he made a play, we would shout his name in unison. SANTOS!

 

That Feller fella

 

OK, so going way way back... who remembers RB Tommy Asaff?

He was a back up to the back ups in the 1969 Wishbone backfield. He got a lot of mop-up playing time due to the blowouts that season. He ran pretty good as I recall and I remember fans yelling out for him to go in.

 

Anthony Curl.

He quietly racked up tackles and prevented runs from turning into breakaways. He's the 4th leading all time tackler, but many don't even know who he is. He played for some sub-par Longhorn teams from 89-92. Curl wasn't a bone-jarring hitter and he rarely made any highlight reels, but he wrapped up the runner and got the job done. The beef against him at the time was that he made many of his tackles 4-5 yards downfield from the line of scrimmage. His detractors did not realize that had Curl not made those tackles, all those 4-5 yard runs would have been 15-20 yard runs or breakaways. Curl is the Rodney Dangerfield of UT linebackers.

 

From my old hometown of Marshall...........played with my cousin for the Mavs!

 

Brian Millard

 

Drew Kelson for his knack for making big plays at the right time - forcing a fumble against Ohio State on their first play after the VY->Sweed pass (remember there were still 2½ minutes left), staying with Reggie Bush on an out & up in the Rose Bowl to break up the pass, a big sack on 3rd down to snuff out an ASU drive in the Holiday Bowl.

And then Butch Hadnot because of how back in 2006 when I was a cashier at an HEB in North Austin, a guy in a Longhorn shirt came through my line and I said something like "This is a nice change, I've had 5 or 6 Sooners in this line in the past half an hour". He studied my expression for a bit and and said "You don't have any idea who I am, do you?" (not in an arrogant way, I think he was just trying to figure out if I said that because I knew who he was or just because he had a UT shirt) and then he asked if I recognized the name "Butch Hadnot". I told him I'd heard the stories of some big games he'd had against Arkansas and Oklahoma. He talked a little about one of the games as I scanned his groceries, and then he shook my hand and walked off with a smile.

 

Scooter Monzingo...if memory serves me right, he could not only punt, he could return it as well.

 

Wane McGarity. Rick Fenlaw. Jimmy Moore. Danny Lester

 

Fenlaw was really good at MLB. One of the best.
Drew Kelson arguably contributed the most on the 4th and 1 stop bs USC as I recall.
Anthony Curl was probably our best skinny LB, he was very rangy and had great football speed.

 

Lance Taylor was one of best linebackers ever until he got injured

 

I have always believed that if he had not gotten hurt, we beat ND. He was one helluva MLB. He belongs on a list with Nobis & Leiding

 

Greg Ploetz. Way undersized but took charge of the center of the DL. Paid an incredibly sad and painful price.

 

Was a warrior with the heart of a lion.

 

Mark Murdock. He had a meteoric rise and fall, wresting the starting QB job away from Shannon Kelly as a redshirt freshman in 1988, then losing it the next year to Peter the Great.

I like Murdock because he lent some athlete credibility to the Plan II program. We don't have much of that.

 

Daryl Clark
Bruce Scholtz
Brian Millard
Rick Houston
Larry Dibbles
Danny Lester
Donnie Little

 

Donnie Wigginton
Scott Henderson (not actually so little-known, I guess)
Mical Padgett

+1 on Danny Lester - standout at both WR and DB (stayed at DB b/c that team needed shoring up there)

 

Nathan Vasher