2013 College Football Hall of Fame Class Announced; No Derrick Thomas

[ALA2262]

Re: Derrick Thomas Snubbed Yet Again for College HoF

Whether it's official or not it's being reported as the record. I don't know how something can be official if stats prior to 2000 aren't included. That's over 100 years of football missing. It's not like they can't go back and include stats prior to 2000. They have the information.

Barner math.

 

[Bama-94-00]

Re: Derrick Thomas Snubbed Yet Again for College HoF

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He is in the NFL HoF and was a far more dominate player in college??

 

[TideWatcher]

Re: Derrick Thomas Snubbed Yet Again for College HoF

Not only should he be in the Hall, he is a no brainer for first team all time college football defense. This is the biggest snub ever.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Re: Derrick Thomas Snubbed Yet Again for College HoF

What an utter disgrace.

Let me say this - I did not see Lee Roy Jordan play. But I'll say this - Derrick Thomas was the most dominating college linebacker I ever saw. Keep in mind he wasn't a full-fledged starter his first two years because a certain college football HOFer named Cornelius Bennett was the star. He didn't have the mouth of Brian Bosworth. Thomas just went out there and dominated. He finished tenth in the 1988 Heisman voting - and that was back when defensive players virtually never even got consideration for it. (I can't complain that Barry Sanders won it - he deserved it). He was far better than Suh or Teo, who both got hype and undeserved high finishes in recent years.

Go back and look at 1988. Alabama finished 9-3 and a fan threw a brick through Bill Curry's window* they were so angry at the Ole Miss loss. Yet without Derrick Thomas, we probably fire Curry at the end of that year. The man single-handedly won the Penn State game. The final was 8-3, and Thomas had eight tackles including three sacks - including the safety. He sacked Kentucky four times in a game we trailed, 17-0, in the third quarter and won, 31-27, on the last play. And we beat Tennessee primarily because of Thomas as well. Three losses there makes a 9-3 year a 5-6 year - and probably gets Bill Curry fired.


To give some of you young folks an idea......think about who we've had as fearsome pash rushers lately - McClain, Dareus, Hightower, Upshaw - I'd take Thomas over all of them combined without pausing. I'd take Thomas over any other single Alabama linebacker I've ever seen play and that says a LOT folks. In the 1988 Sun Bowl, he blocked TWO field goal attempts, broke up a pass, and made SIX unassisted tackles (two for loss) against Army's wishbone. Once again - without Thomas we lose that game and badly as we gave up 350 yards rushing (the same total we got against UGA last December).



Boy I'm hot about this one.



* - allegedly. We still need a Snopes investigation.

I get tired of commenting on this one. I had friends on that team who always got a big horse laugh out of that. It was another Curry fable. I've always said that if there were a fan who could heave a brick up that high through a thick, tempered, plate glass window, he should have been on the US Olympic team as a shot putter...

 

[tidefanbeezer]

Tedy Bruschi of Arizona

Seriously? He makes it in over DT? The CFB Hall of Fame is a sham.

 

[BradtheImpaler]

College Football Hall of FAIL!