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Is Fournette the greatest player to never win a national award?
Posted on 12/19/16 at 11:37 am
Posted on 12/19/16 at 11:37 am
We all know Fournette is great - his 2015 season was truly spectacular - but at the end of the day, he never got to take home a national award.
Is Fournette the greatest player in LSU history this has happened to? SEC history? In all of college football?
It's amazing he didn't win the Doak Walker trophy in 2015.
Is Fournette the greatest player in LSU history this has happened to? SEC history? In all of college football?
It's amazing he didn't win the Doak Walker trophy in 2015.
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Posted on 12/19/16 at 11:43 am to tlsu15
Adrian Peterson didn't win any college awards.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 11:47 am to tlsu15
Marshall Faulk?
Posted on 12/19/16 at 11:49 am to clamdip
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Marshall Faulk?
He won the Jim brown award in 1992.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 11:50 am to tlsu15
Great question
Posted on 12/19/16 at 11:52 am to Chinese Bandit
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Adrian Peterson didn't win any college awards.
It's crazy how similar their careers were. The notable exception being that Adrian Peterson got to play for a NC. Their numbers are almost identical though.
I was thinking Peterson won the Walker award because he finished second in the Heisman behind Leinart, but Cedric Benson won it that year. Even that is very similar to the Fournette/Henry season.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 11:54 am to tlsu15
quote:ok, I guess we could have clarified... "never win a national award that we've heard of."
He won the Jim brown award in 1992.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 11:56 am to clamdip
I googled it. You're right though, he never won a national award we heard about.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:08 pm to tlsu15
No.
Archie Griffin for one.
Archie Griffin for one.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:10 pm to Kcrad
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No.
Archie Griffin for one.
wut
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:12 pm to tlsu15
Do you not consider All-American status as a national award? I guess you are just talking about individual awards like the Doak Walker.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:18 pm to tlsu15
Greatest player to never win? No. his LSU career wasn't good enough.
Most talented? Perhaps among them yes.
Most talented? Perhaps among them yes.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:23 pm to BobBoucher
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Greatest player to never win? No. his LSU career wasn't good enough.
So what LSU player had a better career with no national awards?
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:24 pm to Bmath
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Do you not consider All-American status as a national award? I guess you are just talking about individual awards like the Doak Walker.
Yeah I'm just talking specifically about the few individual awards they have out there.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:36 pm to tlsu15
Question in Thread subject didn't say LSU player. And national awards are given (and compared) at a national level.
So technically he could have the best year of any LSU player ever, but if there are several better players on the national level that year, he probably wouldn't see anything.
So technically he could have the best year of any LSU player ever, but if there are several better players on the national level that year, he probably wouldn't see anything.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:43 pm to BobBoucher
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Question in Thread subject didn't say LSU player.
Right, but the OP says
quote:
Is Fournette the greatest player in LSU history this has happened to? SEC history? In all of college football?
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So technically he could have the best year of any LSU player ever, but if there are several better players on the national level that year, he probably wouldn't see anything.
Which is exactly what happened to Leonard (and AD).
I started watching LSU football in the Saban years. I was basically asking if anyone that remembers further back knows of another player from LSU or the SEC that had similar success with no trophies to show for it.
Leave it to LSU fans though to turn this into a thread shitting on one of our most talented players ever.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:47 pm to tlsu15
I'm not shitting on him. I just don't think any one single year stood out well enough on a national level.
He's by far the most talented IMO.
He's by far the most talented IMO.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:51 pm to tlsu15
Nah. Not even close to greatest.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:51 pm to Kcrad
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No.
Archie Griffin for one.
Yea no national awards at all for Griffin if you don't count those back to back Heismans.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 12:53 pm to clamdip
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Marshall Faulk?
Marshall>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. LF7 and its not close............
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