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It's so hard to put a list together when I have such powerful memories of fantastic buckeyes long before most of you even knew there was The Ohio State University. e.g. a backfield of Tom Matte, Bob Ferguson, Paul Warfield. An offensive line with Jim Parker, Dick Schafrath, Jim Houston. Or the wonder kids of 68 - 70, Kern, Tatum, Otis, Stillwagon, Hayden, et al. Then there're the individuals: Keith Byars, John Hicks, Chris Carter, Cornie Green, Hop Cassidy, Jim Tryer (?). The school owns the list of All-Time centers.

Just trying to recall the names and be fair to all the outstanding athletes I have seen... I'll leave it at this, you can make a national worthy All Star team at every position except quarterback and there the only Buckeye who could play with the best is Art Schlichster and, well, sadly, we all know what happened there
 
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BuckeyeSoldier said:
As much as I love JK and Mike, they havent earned this nomination yet.
Didnt we have Carlos Hyde and Zeke at the same time one year? 92' had Raymont Harris, Eddie George, Butler By'not'e AND Robert Smith...
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True but I went with overall production.

Zeke/hyde- 1780 total
92'- 1800 total between the four mentioned
Mike/JK- over 2k yards with better averages.

Hard part is the type of offense. Who knows what Eddie would've done in this offense but I believe this next season both players will hit 1k yards or at least really close to.

I struggled with safety. Anyone know of some great sets I'm blanking on? I just always remember Doss most even though they weren't the best in coverage. 2016 was good with Hooker but I wasn't a fan of Webb personally that year.
 
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bukIpower said:
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OHSportsFan said:
Perhaps the clue is for the “Lil Animal” that replaced Carp in 2005 Game.

Laurinaitis makes that a stacked LB corps.
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He wasn't a big part of that season. I'm trying not to include unproven eventual stars.

For example I could then say 2015 was the best secondary. That literally had Hooker, Bell, Tyvis, Lattimore, Ward, Conley, Webb, and Apple. However Lattimore, Ward and Hooker were either moot or did not play at all.

No way to know Animal would go on to do what he would the coming seasons.
 
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Zurp said:
I'm guessing that's who "Carp" is.
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bukIpower said:
He wasn't a big part of that season. I'm trying not to include unproven eventual stars.

For example I could then say 2015 was the best secondary. That literally had Hooker, Bell, Tyvis, Lattimore, Ward, Conley, Webb, and Apple. However Lattimore, Ward and Hooker were either moot or did not play at all.

No way to know Animal would go on to do what he would the coming seasons.
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We've yet to have much deliberation about what to do with legends before they were legends, though I'd argue holding up in The Game is not an insignificant achievement.

For those older than myself, how much did Clements play as a backup?
 
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jwinslow said:
For those older than myself, how much did Clements play as a backup?
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He was the nickel back as a true frosh when it started to be a more prominent position so, a fair bit.

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For more depth fun; if memory serves in 1995 Ty Howard and Springs were the starting corners, Howard gets dinged up in the Penn State game and the announcers were discussing how the WR might eat up the unproven true freshman coming in to replace him. It was Antoine Winfield.

Needless to say, someone was eaten up but it wasn't Winfield.
 
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