Bo Knows This is Clickbait

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Another off-season day, another list. SEC media days are ahead, then we are closer to kick-off, so hopefully the content gets more interesting from here on out. In the meantime, here’s this:

Herschel made the number one, so I can’t throw too much shade at this. But…if I had a choice of one person to select on offense to make my team better and I could choose between Tebow or Bo Jackson, I’d still be inclined to go with Bo.

And Colt McCoy? Hell, Aaron Murray had better stats.

Who’s missing from the list for you?

15 thoughts on “Bo Knows This is Clickbait”

  1. Champ Bailey is missing from this list … way better player at all levels than Charles Woodson.

    Herschel could probably kick every ass on this list still today.

    • You could delete the probably. I can’t imagine anyone on that list including Tebow saying I want Herschel inside the cage.

    • Mr. Roland Bailey is a stand alone list, possibly a generational type list, a player/student who got better after listening, then watching his teammate Mr. Kirby Smart…GO DAWGS!!

  2. possibky unpopular opinion: Bo Jackson is way overrated. He was a tremendous multi sport athlete, true. He won the Heisman in probably the weakest field of the last 50 years. He was a really good RB, but not transformative. What did AU win? One SEC, 0 NC. He took himself out of a Florida game with a thigh bruise. AU people around Columbus will argue angrily the BO WAS BETTER THAN HERSCHEL. I’m not sure that Bo was better than Ronnie Brown or Cadillac.

    He benefits from some of the admittedly freakish plays he made off the AU football field. The homer in Athens. Running over Jack Youngblood. The bat snapping in KC. And most of all, he benefitted from the aura of the brilliant Nike campaign. Brian Jordan and Deion Sanders were better football/baseball combo athletes than Bo. The ridiculous claim that he once ran a 4.1 hand timed 40 in a workout.

    Bo was really good at Auburn, no doubt. But as an AU RB, he wasn’t better than Hearst. Or Gurley. Or Champ Bailey. I hate Can Newton, but he transformed AU in his time there. They sucked the year before he arrived. They won a NC when he got there. The year after he left, they sucked again. You hear a lot of “if he hadn’t been hurt,” or “if he got the ball more at AU.” Lots of potential, but not so much what he did.

    I’m not saying Bo was a stiff. But if you had a big game to win, there are lots of RBs you’d want ahead of him, to me. Tony Dorsett, who I also hate, was the best college RB I ever saw not named Herschel. Bo was great the years he played, but there are All American RBs every year. What made him stand out were the highlight plays and the commercials, not how he affected the games, or how he affected college football.

    if you grew up loving The Legend of Bo, I have no criticism of you. But he’s way overrated based on his actual CFB accomplishments to me.

    • 81,

      Wouldn’t disagree with anything you wrote above and totally agree on Cam Newton. I will add back in the 90’s I was part of a group fishing at lake West Point. Loran Smith, Johnny Majors and Bo Jackson were the big names there. I was paired with Bo and learned he is an amazingly humble person. The quotes I remember best from him were. I’m the luckiest person I ever met. God gave me everything. He made fun of himself easily and often. Bo don’t know swimming was my favorite. He won the big fish contest and gave the credit and money to the guide. Saying I just followed instructions. I wanted to fish with Loran that day. Sometimes not getting what you want works out better.

      • “If you don’t have the best of everything, make the best of what you have”….

      • by all accounts, Bo is a really nice person. I mean no personal criticism of him. I suppose my view of him is colored by 50 years of dealing with Auburn fans. That started when I was a freshman at UGA; bunch of girls from my HS decided to go to AU, and every Christmas and summer had a big dose of them complaining about how UGA fans were such rednecks. C’est le guerre.

  3. Walter Payton, Drew Brees and Champ Bailey. Leaving Champ off the list makes the list questionable.

  4. Don’t let this list git in to the hands of Mr. Manball (or bobo)…GO DAWGS!!

  5. That’s a pretty respectable top 5. After that? Not feeling it. Colt McCoy?? Ron Dayne?? Didn’t he have like 48 yards against our 1997 team that shit the bed at home with an east championship on the line?

    How about David Palmer? Brian Bosworth? David Pollock?

  6. #1- Mr. Walker

    #2- Barry Sanders

    #3- Jake Scott

    #4- Bill Stanfill

    I saw #3 and #4 up close and personal, they should be there.

    You can fill in the rest, but if you do not have Stet Bennet on that list, you are wrong. What else could a college QB do.

  7. John Hannah and Anthony Munoz were better college OLs than Orlando Pace ever dreamed of being.

    Seems odd to list Peyton Manning, who didn’t win a natty, but leave out Tee Martin, who did.

    No question Pollack had a better college career than Suh.

    Nobody from former powerhouse Miami seems odd.

    Who the heck is Howard Cassady?

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