Mean Green All-Century Team Ballot

[The Fake Lonnie Finch]

If you haven't completed yours, here's the link:

http://www.meangreensports.com/quest/Questionaire.dbml?&QID=171821&DB_OEM_ID=1800

Stats, achievements of all on the ballot: http://www.meangreensports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=1800&ATCLID=206099562&KEY=&DB_OEM_ID=1800&DB_LANG=C&IN_SUBSCRIBER_CONTENT=

Here is how I voted:

QB (choose one)

Scott Davis - I'll admit bias here because he was the QB at Berkner when I was there. But, he had a winning record at UNT. And, I'll never forget the best game of my UNT studenthood - the home win over SMU, October 6, 1990. Thank you, Scott! Go Rams! Go Mean Green! Wins over Texas Tech, Rice, and Texas in 1988...all on the road! Yes, I give him credit for 1988 Texas. We were screwed and Texas knows it. His record says 26-20...I say, 27-19.

RB (choose three)

Abner Haynes, Patrick Cobbs, and Lanc Dunbar

WR (choose two)

John Love, Johnny Quinn

TE (choose one)

Andy Blount...torn here because TE is where they have Brian Waters listed. He had a fantastic NFL career as an OL. From a production standpoint, though, in college, it was Blount for me.

Waters, no doubt, will be a sentimental favorite. He's easily one of the top five former Mean Green NFLers (Abner Haynes, Spider Lockhart, Joe Greene, and Willie Parker rounding out my Mean Green/NFL top five.)

OL (choose five)

Jim Cooper, Bill Bishop, Glen Holloway, Willie Parker, Scott Bowles

DL (choose four)

Joe Greene, Tony Elliot, Cedric Hardeman, Brandon Kennedy

LB (choose four)

Lance White (bias here, our families have church connection), Byron Gross, Brad Kassell, Cody Spencer

DB (choose four)

Spider Lockhart, Beasley Reece, Leonard Dunlap, J.T. Smith

P (choose one)

Toby Gowin

PK (choose one)

Garrett Courtney

Return Specialist (choose one)

Broderick McGrew

Coach (choose one)

Odus Mitchell

This is a fun ballot. Lot of memories here. You look at it and realize all of the good players that have been here. How many great one before we took the dive down to I-AA. Just crazy the talented guys that went on to the NFL in 60s and 70s. I'll never understand dropping down.

Anyway, this is a chance to remember those guys and credit them for the work they put in before the school turned its back on their program.

Edited February 9, 2013 by The Fake Lonnie Finch

[Mean Green 93-98]

There's a thread on this:

Based on the votes people have posted, a few players are already looking like locks . . . especially on that D-line.

[gksmith]

DL - Awasome made the NFL (backup at NY).