100 days, til kickoff!

Discussion in 'On The Field' started by CoachMc, May 23, 2018.

  1. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Mark McBath was the starting QB in 1977. Fast, smart, good option and threw the ball well. OU took him out in the first quarter. He came back to have a really great SunBowl game with Ham Jones the next year. Mark proved he could do it in that game and then took off to medical school.

    We played Maryland in that Sun Bowl game. Jerry Claiborne won the toss and took the ball facing a 45 mph wind coming off Franklin Mountain

    Tim Wilson was two years out of UMd, and Tim was Earl's roommate and best friend. Earl and I bet Tim dinner on that game. They didn't see the first half because they were on an Oilers charter to Pittsburgh. According to the recorded message at my house, "What happened".

    Two years later, Earl and I were sitting with Coach Claiborne at Tim and Volanda's wedding reception and he was bemoaning the "West Texas gale" and how he had never experienced anything like it.
     
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  2. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    I recall that was the game when Cowboy-to-be Randy White characterized Texas as "a bunch of beasts" in a post game interview.
     
  3. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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  4. TxnByBirth

    TxnByBirth 1,000+ Posts

  5. Buck-Horn

    Buck-Horn Guest

  6. rick mueller

    rick mueller Burnt Orange Bleeder

    Looking ahead again, I'm having trouble coming up with a #12. Any ideas? :idk::idk::idk:
     
  7. Horn87

    Horn87 1,000+ Posts

    This looks like a pre-scene from "North Dallas Forty"
     
  8. yelladawgdem

    yelladawgdem 2,500+ Posts

    Before kick off against OU. It was not a good day.
     
  9. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    No #14 QB Eddie Phillips?

    1969-1971 - some said he was the best Wishbone QB ever at UT.
     
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  10. Buck-Horn

    Buck-Horn Guest

    Eddie P was one of the best. But, as for pure skill set of a wishbone QB, I think the best was Marty Akins. I believe even DKR may have said as much.
     
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  11. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    For some reason this made me think that James Street = Terry Bradshaw. Results but not the best?
     
  12. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Marty is a friend, but I think Eddie Phillips was the best at The Forty Acres.

    Best ever? Jack Mildren gets my vote
     
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  13. I_Dont_Exist

    I_Dont_Exist 1,000+ Posts

    I have to go with Thomas Lott. Problem with UT bone we ran it like a bulldozer. OU ran it like a corvette.
     
  14. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Jack Mildren, James Street, Eddie Phillips, Marty Akins never got shut down to less than 100 yards total offense and only three earned first downs, particularly with RBs like Billy Sims and David Overstreet.

    Thomas Lott would not make my top ten wishbone QBs, maybe not top 20.
     
  15. I_Dont_Exist

    I_Dont_Exist 1,000+ Posts

    I believe the game you're referring to was '79. That would be J.C. Watts.
     
  16. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    You are correct, sir. I would, however, submit that JC Watts was a much better wishbone QB than Thomas Lott.

    Sure wish he had hung in there and run for President
     
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  17. Desperado

    Desperado 1,000+ Posts

    Whoa, whoa now. Let's tap the brakes a bit on all that Sooner love.

    #13 Todd Dodge

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  18. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    #13 WR Jerrod Heard
     
  19. Hideo Gump Jr.

    Hideo Gump Jr. Summer Soldier and Sunshine Patriot

    In November of ‘98 #13 Kris Stockton sends #6 Texas A&M home disappointed.
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  20. TxnByBirth

    TxnByBirth 1,000+ Posts

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    Not our 12, but a chance to get a good photo (and butt kicking) in, so sue me!
     
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  21. Buck-Horn

    Buck-Horn Guest

    The very underrated Marvin Kristynik, who QB'd the win over the great Joe Namath and mighty #1 Bama in the 1965 Orange Bowl!

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  22. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    Marvin's brother David lives a few blocks down from me. Great Longhorn family...
     
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  23. Desperado

    Desperado 1,000+ Posts

    #12 Earl Thomas

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  24. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    A lot of GREAT photos of #12 this morning!!! :hookem::hookem::hookem:

    Good work guys!!!
     
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  25. Hideo Gump Jr.

    Hideo Gump Jr. Summer Soldier and Sunshine Patriot

    Danny Akers
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    Arguably his most memorable moment came in the 84 SMU game when he got speared by David Stanley, keeping a drive alive in a tight 13-7 victory. James Lott sealed the win with a stellar series of defensive plays as the clock ticked down.

    Gone at 54. Too soon.
     
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  26. Desperado

    Desperado 1,000+ Posts

    #12 Tony Jeffery
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    I heard this guy had a roommate in college. I'll do some internet research and see what I can find.
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  27. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    I know it's a couple of days away but I was wondering ahead if we got anybody decent for the #10 photo? You HF wizards start noodling on it...

    Dion maybe you could throw out some suggestions from the old UT photo source you have access to?
     
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  28. Buck-Horn

    Buck-Horn Guest

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  29. Buck-Horn

    Buck-Horn Guest

    Probably the 2nd most famous #10....
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  30. ProdigalHorn

    ProdigalHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Wasn't Brett Stafford no. 10?
     

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