GlassOnion wrote:Moore gained 1400 yards in 2009, and if Brian Quick had made the catch on the goal line, we would have beaten a very good Montana team, IN Montana, and been playing for another NC. Without Satterfield. You think Satterfield would have taken the ball out of AE's hands on the goal line?appdaze wrote: You're right, he did have a lot of good players around him be we also had a lot of good players the last 5 years and yet it slipped away each year. He was the consistency that was lost. BUT remember this is a top 5 players list so this is all about the Individual not the team play. If you start throwing in all the ifs with injuries and all that kind of thing you could make arguments for a bunch of players. What ifs didn't happen. AE and Moore had all those AA blockers in front of them but couldn't manage to get there. Again with SS we still had him in 2008. The consistency was K-Rich and this is a list of individual players. None of the guys get on the list without the players around them.
Couldnt manage to get there? App was literally a few feet from another NC game, and through one of the toughest playoff road trips in the FCS.
In 2008 we had about 5 injured RBs to work with.
Again we cannot change the past with "IFs" all we can go on is what has been done. Would have, could have, should have, won't ever happen. We can speculate til the world ends but that doesn't change what happened. Would we be talking about Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time if he had gotten within a couple games of the trophy every year but fell short. the OP was asking who the top 5 players were in Apps history and I think K-Rich as a very strong resume because he was the consistency on those teams that was a magic that was lost when he left.
A few feet is still not getting there and they would have still had to win the NC game so again more speculation. We also don't know what SS would have done in that situation so thats more 20/20 hindsight speculation.
