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This is kind of a generalized question, but I'm going to answer it in 3 ways...feel free to answer it however you feel you've been disappointed.
1. Ryan Leaf,QB Washington State - I was the biggest Dan Marino fan, so towards the end of his career I started looking for the next great QB to follow. Unfortunately I jumped on the Ryan Leaf bandwagon...ugh...
2. Martez Wilson, LB Illinois - Seeing as how I'm a huge Illinois football fan I was super excited when Ron Zook put together a fantastic recruiting class despite only winning 2 games the previous year. While most of us know Arrelious Benn, on the defensive side was Wilson. Wilson was actually rated higher than Benn at the time. I'm still waiting for Wilson to shine, unfortunately I'll have to wait til next season as he's suffered a season ending injury this year.
3. Ron Turner, Head Coach Illinois - A lot of people, myself included blame Ron Turner for Illinois football being a cellar dwellar most of the past 2 decades. His lone shining moment at Illinois was the 2001 season in which the Illini went 10-2, losing to LSU in the Sugar Bowl. In that season, had the Illini beaten Michigan, they quite possibly could've played for the national championship. Turner is highly regarded as one of the worst recruiting coaches in Illinois history. Coincidentally, the 2001 season was his fourth season (when the freshmen he inherited turned seniors). After that season the Illini only enjoyed one more winning season under Turner. His overall record at Illinois was 35 wins and 57 losses, for a winning percentage of .380. Two of Turner's teams were winless in the Big Ten, going 0-8 in 1997 and again in 2003, and he is the only coach in the more than one hundred year history of Illinois football to lose eleven games in a season, which he also accomplished in those same two seasons.
1. Ryan Leaf,QB Washington State - I was the biggest Dan Marino fan, so towards the end of his career I started looking for the next great QB to follow. Unfortunately I jumped on the Ryan Leaf bandwagon...ugh...
2. Martez Wilson, LB Illinois - Seeing as how I'm a huge Illinois football fan I was super excited when Ron Zook put together a fantastic recruiting class despite only winning 2 games the previous year. While most of us know Arrelious Benn, on the defensive side was Wilson. Wilson was actually rated higher than Benn at the time. I'm still waiting for Wilson to shine, unfortunately I'll have to wait til next season as he's suffered a season ending injury this year.
3. Ron Turner, Head Coach Illinois - A lot of people, myself included blame Ron Turner for Illinois football being a cellar dwellar most of the past 2 decades. His lone shining moment at Illinois was the 2001 season in which the Illini went 10-2, losing to LSU in the Sugar Bowl. In that season, had the Illini beaten Michigan, they quite possibly could've played for the national championship. Turner is highly regarded as one of the worst recruiting coaches in Illinois history. Coincidentally, the 2001 season was his fourth season (when the freshmen he inherited turned seniors). After that season the Illini only enjoyed one more winning season under Turner. His overall record at Illinois was 35 wins and 57 losses, for a winning percentage of .380. Two of Turner's teams were winless in the Big Ten, going 0-8 in 1997 and again in 2003, and he is the only coach in the more than one hundred year history of Illinois football to lose eleven games in a season, which he also accomplished in those same two seasons.
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