re: Sammy Martin - 1980s

The fastest white man alive!

That's what my fellow students and I called him back in the day. Fun as hell to watch the defense underestimate his speed .

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he bulked up to maybe 175-178lbs by his Senior season.

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I doubt it. If he ever saw a 7 in his weight it was 167.

AlwaysaTgr. I thought it was Hodson, But you may be right. May have been Guidry when he came in for his first half series. Rather Hodson or Guidry, and I can concur that I don't have the best memory but I can still see Martin cutting that slant and thinking if the QB gets the ball to him, he's off to the races. AlwaysaTgr, you are definitely right. I just went to the youtube clip That Ponchy Tiger posted and it was definitely Guidry. Wow, watching that part of the video still gave on old fart like me Goosebumps.

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He had an incredible run against Ole Miss in Jackson one night. He scored a touchdown from about nine yards out, but there's no telling how many yards he actually covered with all the back & forth, starts & stops.

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One of the most exciting short-yardage runs I ever saw, and my favorite Sammy Martin highlight.

It's toward the end of this package, but the whole thing is short, and worth watching.

LSU vs Ole Miss 1987

Thanks rnolan53

Nickname after the TA&M game was "White Lightnin'"

He was the white version of RS10. Skinny, fast and great with the ball in his hands. The problem with both of them, was where did you put them in order to get them the ball? At RB, they couldn't be expected to pound it up the middle and as WR they couldn't be expected to consistently beat man to man coverage. Either way, defenses could narrow in on what they could do, thus limiting what they had to guard against. In the end, both were great athletes and certainly have some great highlights, but neither were set to be superstars ready to be every down players that the offense could be based on.

he looked like he was about 51 years old at LSu lol
fast though

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Either way, defenses could narrow in on what they could do, thus limiting what they had to guard against.

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Arnsparger did a great job designing an offense that was ahead of its time in college ball. Defenses didn't know where LSU was coming from. The pass against A&M, for example, was about a two yard dump over the blitzing LBs iirc.

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Hokie Gajan says, "What's up?".

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As does Brad Davis.

Dude did straigt up look like he was 40 years old. I'm old, so I remember him. That said, I remember him more as a slot type guy/wingback equivalent than I do a running back. Likely has to do with seeing that A and M highlight so many times. I need to read this whole thread and see what others remember of him as a pure running back.