Dickerson doesn't make College Hall of Fame cut

by **Longtime** » Thu May 01, 2008 3:15 pm

Eric Dickerson was on the ballot this year for the College Football Hall of Fame and inexplicably did not make the cut.

If you want to see who did make it, and maybe drop a line to the Irving-based National Football Foundation which runs the Hall, here's the URL:

http://www.footballfoundation.com/

by **Horseshoe** » Thu May 01, 2008 3:35 pm

What a pantload. Dickerson should have been in ahead of both coaches and most - if not all - players on that list.

by **WE ARE BACK** » Thu May 01, 2008 3:40 pm

The entire selection process shows just how ridiculous the National Football Foundation is... I love it how a candidate has to have played his last game within the past 50 years and then there is an asterisk saying that each case is examined by a case-by-case basis. What is the point of the rule if each case is looked at individually... I guess they saw something in Arnold Tucker this year that they must have overlooked in the previous 59 years.

by **mr. pony** » Thu May 01, 2008 4:23 pm

It's the DP, guys.

What a crime. :evil:

by **MrMustang1965** » Thu May 01, 2008 6:46 pm

A travesty, I tell ya. A travesty! :evil:

by **PonyLove** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:37 pm

Jay Novacek over ED?....seriously....

by **Higher Authority** » Fri May 02, 2008 12:16 am

Eric Dickerson was one of the most productive and dominant players in the history of college football. Yet he gets left out in favor of:

Troy Aikman - Better pro than college player. Reputation pick.

Billy Cannon - Really? That's like putting Curtis Enis or Rashan Salaam or some other overrated college hack.

Jim Dombrowski - No problem ... he was a stud.

Pat Fitzgerald? Nice guy, probably, made a lot of tackles and touched some hearts when tragedy threw him into the head coaching job at his alma mater, but better than Dickerson? No way in hell.

Wilber Marshall - absolute monster, but still not better than Dickerson. They both should have gotten in.

Reuben Mayes? They should shut down the Hall if this guy is in and Dickerson isn't.

Randall McDaniel - didn't see him enough in college to have an opinion.

Don McPherson - this has got to be a joke. He was a moderately successful college QB because he played in a great system and had a lot of talent, not because he was anything special. Think Danny Wuerffel, but taller.

Jay Novacek - not even worth discussing.

Dave Parks - Who?

Ron Simmons - No problem. He was a beast before Florida State was really good.

Thurman Thomas was great. Not Dickerson, but very good.

Arnold Tucker - of course I haven't seen him play enough to have an opinion. But neither have any of the voters, dammit.

Holtz is as overrated as [deleted] Vitale, and Cooper did less wiith more talent than any coach in recent memory - he's the Jim Boeheim of football.

That Dickerson didn't make this class is nothing short of a crime.

by **SMU 86** » Fri May 02, 2008 12:26 am

One person on MM.com has a good idea.

http://smu.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=2 ... 74&style=2

by **that's great raplh** » Fri May 02, 2008 6:30 am

weak suace

by **lwjr** » Fri May 02, 2008 9:52 am

Not only did ED get screwed out of the Heisman is senior year, now this. What a #$@$ Joke!!! Ruben Mays, sounds like a sandwich. Lord if he is in, why isn't Craig James as well.

by **Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex** » Fri May 02, 2008 9:57 am

Higher Authority wrote:Ron Simmons - No problem. He was a beast before Florida State was really good.

And one heck of a rassler too. :wink:

by **jtstang** » Fri May 02, 2008 10:25 am

Maybe the College HoF is reserved for amatuers?

by **SoCal_Pony** » Fri May 02, 2008 11:50 am

jtstang wrote:Maybe the College HoF is reserved for amatuers?

Tell that to Earl Campbell or Billy Sims

Dickerson doesn't make College Hall of Fame cut

Dickerson doesn't make College Hall of Fame cut

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