On Texas Football's Top 25 Players of the Modern Era (1992-Present)

[Bobby Burton]

3 hours ago, Alex Butler said:

Rod B get any love?! I agree about Brackens!! @Blake Munroe do we need to post the kicker destruction to make our case lol? I’m just gunna do it

   

 

 

I knew the girl who married the Tech kicker. They're divorced now I believe.

But I remember her telling me that the kicker never remembered that hit. And I said, "well, I'll never forget it!"

[HookedOnTF]

What did the member poll look like? Same top 10?

[Burnt Orange Horn]

Bottom line is this just needs to be a top 50 as there are 25 out of the 2095 team alone.

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[Hornio]

38 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

Agree!

He had better stats in 3 years than Orakpo in 4!

[Hornio]

I would actually have Brackens tied with DJ at 4

[Alex Butler]

1 hour ago, Bobby Burton said:

I knew the girl who married the Tech kicker. They're divorced now I believe.

But I remember her telling me that the kicker never remembered that hit. And I said, "well, I'll never forget it!"

Hahaha I bet he didn’t. She probably got the ick after seeing him get demolished by TB lol. I’ll never forget that hit either. I was watching with a bunch of friends in middle school at a birthday party and my dad and brother were at the game. It’s all any of us could talk about for 2 weeks straight. 

[Here for the Wins]

26 minutes ago, Hornio said:

I would actually have Brackens tied with DJ at 4

Brackens was a shining light in an era of dark and ill-advised defensive schemes.  

I would have a hard time putting him over Hampton though.

[Judd_Irby]

All those guys make perfect sense.  But I have to give a tip of the hat to Peter Gardere.  He is the only QB from either Texas or Oklahoma to have beaten the other team four straight seasons.  In each of those four seasons OU was ranked and Texas wasn't.  Results count.

[Longhornfrenzy]

Quinn deserves some recognition. Led Texas to 2 straight playoff appearances. If he hadn't been injured and missed multiple games throughout the season. I think he could have been on the list

Edited 5 hours ago by Longhornfrenzy

[Jacket Horn]

I like the list!  I would have Leonard Davis significantly higher though - a truly dominant player at a critical position

[Pwood]

35 minutes ago, Judd_Irby said:

All those guys make perfect sense.  But I have to give a tip of the hat to Peter Gardere.  He is the only QB from either Texas or Oklahoma to have beaten the other team four straight seasons.  In each of those four seasons OU was ranked and Texas wasn't.  Results count.

The chants by the OU fans at his final RRS for him to graduate 🤭

[Blake Munroe]

4 hours ago, Judd_Irby said:

All those guys make perfect sense.  But I have to give a tip of the hat to Peter Gardere.  He is the only QB from either Texas or Oklahoma to have beaten the other team four straight seasons.  In each of those four seasons OU was ranked and Texas wasn't.  Results count.

I get what you’re saying, but to play devils advocate…

21-19 during his four years  

37 TD. 46 INT. 

Only had one season where he threw more TD than INT (16:13). 

That doesn’t all fall on him by any means, but as you said… results.

Not even close to sniffing this list, imo. 

 

[Blake Munroe]

4 hours ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

Quinn deserves some recognition. Led Texas to 2 straight playoff appearances. If he hadn't been injured and missed multiple games throughout the season. I think he could have been on the list

Someone voted Quinn No. 1… in the fan vote.

Ill release the fan vote tomorrow. 

[Here for the Wins]

33 minutes ago, Blake Munroe said:

I get what you’re saying, but to play devils advocate…

21-19 during his four years  

37 TD. 46 INT. 

Only had one season where he threw more TD than INT (16:13). 

That doesn’t all fall on him by any means, but as you said… results.

Not even close to sniffing this list, imo. 

 

Blake, you have no idea how shitty the QB landscape was in the state of Texas at that time.  High school and college.  And it was lack of physical talent.

[Migas & Fajitas]

Lots of Htown on the list 

[Blake Munroe]

33 minutes ago, Here for the Wins said:

Blake, you have no idea how shitty the QB landscape was in the state of Texas at that time.  High school and college.  And it was lack of physical talent.

I get it. And that was just a tad before my time lol. I was 7 his final year. 
 

But he’s also automatically disqualified from the list, as he didn’t play in the modern era. I guess technically 1992, but 75% of his career was pre-poll. 

[Blake Munroe]

13 minutes ago, Migas & Fajitas said:

Lots of Htown on the list 

Good observation. It will be interesting to see if we see a DFW switch over the next decade or not.