THIS IS NOW THE JUNGLE!

[DiegoCane]

Still ridiculous that we had Portis, Davenport, Gore, McGahee at RB on the same team at one time. And Davenport, Gore, McGahee would all have major knee injuries before they would leave the U. Everyone know how great Portis, Gore, McGahee were but some people forget what Davenport looked like as a Fr, he was a beast. Still had a good career here.

 

[umcane4life]

I totally get what Lu is saying, and I'm excited about the young talent that we have, but Davis sounds a bit off especially when he references UM recruiting Carter. With that said, it's interesting that McGahee was referenced because McGahee is an interesting example. IIRC, Mcgahee didn't stay because he decided to tough it out, he stayed because he was a momma's boy and momma (and his brother or uncle i can't remember which) told him that he wasn't going to transfer. At the time, he was basically dead set on transferring to Auburn. Now granted, he worked his *** off, but if his mother would have been cool with it, Willis would have bolted.

Interesting, 1775. But, the fact is he HAD to tough it out. Whether because his family told him (which I concede was likely the case) to or because he dug deep, he was forced to go through the process. There's a lot to be said about coming out of the other side of that. What's fascinating is that he wasn't even set to be the starter during his freakish explosion of a season. If he wasn't the best guy available (Gore was subhuman pre-injury), imagine what we could have seen from Gore or a Gore/Mcgahee combination.

Do the '03 Canes win the title with a pre-knee injury Gore and/or McGahee?

That defense was ungodly.

In a walk.

One of them allows us to settle the **** down at VTech.

****, with a pre-knee injury Gore and McGahee in '02 they don't lose to OSU and with a healthy Gore in 2003 they are in the title again.

 

[LuCane]

Still ridiculous that we had Portis, Davenport, Gore, McGahee at RB on the same team at one time. And Davenport, Gore, McGahee would all have major knee injuries before they would leave the U. Everyone know how great Portis, Gore, McGahee were but some people forget what Davenport looked like as a Fr, he was a beast. Still had a good career here.

Duke Johnson, Alex Collins, Sony Michel.

Let's dream.

 

[CanesAreAble]

Still ridiculous that we had Portis, Davenport, Gore, McGahee at RB on the same team at one time. And Davenport, Gore, McGahee would all have major knee injuries before they would leave the U. Everyone know how great Portis, Gore, McGahee were but some people forget what Davenport looked like as a Fr, he was a beast. Still had a good career here.

Duke Johnson, Alex Collins, Sony Michel.

Let's dream.

So let it be written. So let it be done.

 

[bbcane]

Still ridiculous that we had Portis, Davenport, Gore, McGahee at RB on the same team at one time. And Davenport, Gore, McGahee would all have major knee injuries before they would leave the U. Everyone know how great Portis, Gore, McGahee were but some people forget what Davenport looked like as a Fr, he was a beast. Still had a good career here.

Duke Johnson, Alex Collins, Sony Michel.

Let's dream.

So let it be written. So let it be done.

So is this the wise men?

 

[wushah]

Still ridiculous that we had Portis, Davenport, Gore, McGahee at RB on the same team at one time. And Davenport, Gore, McGahee would all have major knee injuries before they would leave the U. Everyone know how great Portis, Gore, McGahee were but some people forget what Davenport looked like as a Fr, he was a beast. Still had a good career here.

Does anyone recall what Najeh was doing to OSU before he got hurt? Najeh was a freak of nature when he got to UM.

WMcHeisman, IMO, was the prototype back. Big, built tough, and could run like the wind. Physically, he was the best of all the guys. Weird science-type isht.

Gore was just special. Best vision out of a back I've ever seen to this day in a Canes uniform.

Portis was the strongest mentally of the bunch.

If those guys had all been healthy throughout their careers at UM...

 

[grover]

Lu, just prepare yourself for a long journey. The patient is through chemo, the cancer has been eliminated, but he's still in intensive care and very weak. Long-term prognosis is good.

 

[NotoriousJJE]

Still ridiculous that we had Portis, Davenport, Gore, McGahee at RB on the same team at one time. And Davenport, Gore, McGahee would all have major knee injuries before they would leave the U. Everyone know how great Portis, Gore, McGahee were but some people forget what Davenport looked like as a Fr, he was a beast. Still had a good career here.

Duke Johnson, Alex Collins, Sony Michel.

Let's dream.

I couldnt agree more with you guys. If you think about it, the possibility of this combo coming to fruition is ridiculous in the modern college game. That is undoubtedly early decade type talent and would cement our rise back the top of the CFB world. Like Lu said, I can't wait to approach that continuity in talent across every position. And its like the players used o say that the players they would go against every dy in practice where better than any team they would have to face. We would scare the **** out of other teams again...

I got my glasses on.

 

[PuertoRiCane]

Still ridiculous that we had Portis, Davenport, Gore, McGahee at RB on the same team at one time. And Davenport, Gore, McGahee would all have major knee injuries before they would leave the U. Everyone know how great Portis, Gore, McGahee were but some people forget what Davenport looked like as a Fr, he was a beast. Still had a good career here.

I remember my freshman year. We had Edge, James Jackson and Najeh. JJ wasn't elite, but still very serviceable back then. You took one guy out and the next looked just as effective. After that it just took off.

 

[cinimonBun]

The pre-injury Gore was one of the finest college RB specimens I've ever seen. Yeah, he had the advantage of having tremendous surrounding talent to help make him look so good, but regardless, I don't think I've ever seen anyone with the combination of vision, cutting ability, and overall agility that he had before he tore his knee up.

 

[Hurrikane]

Great, great post.

 

[thedonald]

Barring an NCAA disaster, thus program should be top ten next year and a contender the following year

Does Florida back out because of this? My gut says yes...

 

[BODESLAM]

My goodness I am beyond excited right now. I started a new thread about this because we need to zoom out of the specific incident (Vernon Davis' transfer) and view what this means for the program.

I think Davis will be a good college player. I think he could have contributed here in a couple of years. If he felt so uncomfortable by what he saw of his peers that he had to leave to seek opportunity elsewhere, despite his personal talents, it means we have entered a "Survival of the Fittest" environment.

This may seem like something small, but in just over 18 months, we're seeing the first concrete sign of Golden's plan being executed. What we needed was a complete culture change. Players (like Willis Mcgahee) who cut their teeth against competition (like Portis) and were pushed to basically quit. If they made it through, they'd be tested as individual players and the entire program benefitted. We haven't had this culture since Butch Davis was here.

It's time to duplicate exactly this throughout other key positions. Miami is the place where players come to prove out that competition churns the very best of the best.

This is fantastic stuff.

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