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Still unreal after 30 years: Barry Sanders untouchable 1988 season
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:24 am
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:24 am
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Through almost two dozen interviews, ESPN goes behind the scenes of Sanders' magical '88 season, which included his penchant for untimely naps, junk food and pick-up basketball, his historic performances against Nebraska and Oklahoma -- both of whom never knew about his mysterious high school highlight tape -- and a bizarre scene in Tokyo, where Sanders found out he won the Heisman Trophy.
Behind the scenes of Barry Sanders' untouchable 1988 season
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Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:26 am to SPEEDY
I didn’t click the link, but saw a stat on Twitter yesterday that if you took the top power 5 rushing performance from each week last season, it still doesn’t equal what Barry did.
Amazing
Amazing
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:30 am to texastiger38
Yeah, that was listed in the article
It was a really good read. Especially how OU and Nebraska failed to recruit him out of high school
It was a really good read. Especially how OU and Nebraska failed to recruit him out of high school
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:31 am to SPEEDY
Didn't he win without playing a single game on TV too? That's incredible. But it also was at the same time where there were only a few games on each week so reports had to actually still be good at their jobs and do research.
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:42 am to texastiger38
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saw a stat on Twitter yesterday that if you took the top power 5 rushing performance from each week last season, it still doesn’t equal what Barry did.
**That week 2 opponent for Bryce Love should be UCLA
This post was edited on 8/24/18 at 9:47 am
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:48 am to jlovel7
No they were on TV. It was Andre Ware that won without being on TV
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:50 am to SPEEDY
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History in the backfield
To this day, only once did two future Pro Football Hall of Fame running backs play together in college: Barry Sanders and Thurman Thomas. The year before Sanders arrived at OSU, Thomas had rushed for 1,650 yards and was a consensus All-American.
"We're seeing that Sanders is something special, but we've got Thomas, and Thomas is running wild, and Thomas meant so much to everybody because he was probably the first real high-profile Texas [recruit] we ever got," Jones said. "But I'm on [the staff] saying, 'How can we get Sanders in the ball game? How can we make this work, and still treat Thomas with respect?'"
That created quite the predicament for the Cowboys, an I-formation team with a spot for only one tailback. Ultimately, they kept Thomas as the starter, while rotating Sanders in about every third series.
Yet even as Thomas would deliver another monster season in '87, OSU's rivals were beginning to take notice of Sanders.
In mid-October, the Cowboys welcomed Nebraska to a showdown of unbeatens with Thomas leading the nation in rushing. The night before the game, the two teams ran into each other at the Stillwater movie theater. Afterward, Thomas hopped onto the Nebraska bus and said, "Nobody here can tackle me."
The next day, though, the Huskers shut down Thomas, holding him to seven yards in a 35-0 rout. But in garbage time, Sanders came in and summarily danced for 60 yards.
Afterward, Nebraska All-American defensive end Neil Smith was boasting to the Omaha World-Herald's Lee Barfknecht about the whipping the Huskers put on Thomas.
"We shut his arse down," Smith told Barfknecht. "But we couldn't tackle that other little m-----f---er."
Three weeks later, OU's coaching staff was preparing for Bedlam when Switzer burst into the room after watching the Cowboys on film.
"I told them, 'You better hope Thurman Thomas doesn't get hurt,' " Switzer said to his bewildered staff." Because, Switzer told them, Sanders is even better.
This post was edited on 8/24/18 at 9:51 am
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:51 am to SPEEDY
Best running back of all time.
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:53 am to LittleJerrySeinfield
Not even best RB to go to College in Oklahoma or wear 20 in Detroit.
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:55 am to SPEEDY
Nm
This post was edited on 8/24/18 at 9:56 am
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:56 am to SPEEDY
Wichita North High School. Used to play pop warner football on Barry Sanders Football Field. Used to have a billboard of Barry over the field until about 7 years ago.
Lots of good local stories about guys that played with and against Barry in high school. Apparently he was a beast on the basketball court as well.
Lots of good local stories about guys that played with and against Barry in high school. Apparently he was a beast on the basketball court as well.
Posted on 8/24/18 at 9:58 am to sms151t
I think he was better than Silly Bims and the flashiest runner ever, but I still have a hard time rating a guy who would go -1, 2, 1, 40 on his runs.
Posted on 8/24/18 at 10:00 am to LittleJerrySeinfield
I have been watching college football intensely since the late 70s. Barry Sanders was the best runner I ever saw. No one else had the combination of lateral quickness, agility, power, and straight-line speed that Sanders had. Truly, it was a treat to watch him play.
Posted on 8/24/18 at 10:02 am to Bunk Moreland
I don’t but it is what it is. I get that people didn’t get to see Sims on this board but dude was amazing. To win theHeisman out of a wishbone and then go over 1000 and go to playoffs in that Detroit offense, which was worse than before Sanders got there. Shame his knee was shredded
Posted on 8/24/18 at 10:18 am to sms151t
The only thing Sims was better than Sanders at was kicking opponents
Posted on 8/24/18 at 10:23 am to Sun God
I still do not get why Sanders made all those no sex claims when it was so easy to check on.
This post was edited on 8/24/18 at 10:25 am
Posted on 8/24/18 at 10:36 am to Bunk Moreland
Billy Sims was a more complete runner and back than Barry but Barry’s elusiveness might be one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen from a football player, almost like a skilled dancer on the football field
Posted on 8/24/18 at 11:08 am to sms151t
quote:When you say things like this you're just running a flag up a pole that says "I'm stupid".
Not even best RB to go to College in Oklahoma or wear 20 in Detroit.
Posted on 8/24/18 at 11:12 am to King George
I mean hell Lem Barney might be the best PLAYER to wear 20 in Detroit, dude was Deion before Deion
Posted on 8/24/18 at 11:59 am to King George
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Not even best RB to go to College in Oklahoma or wear 20 in Detroit.
When you say things like this you're just running a flag up a pole that says "I'm stupid
The response tells me you never watched or read about players in the past.
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