2011 AFCA FBS Coaches’ All-America Team

[KnightNoles]

2011 AFCA FBS Coaches’ All-America Team

http://www.afca.com/article/article.php?id=1201

*2010 AA

Team Background: The teams now chosen for each of the AFCA’s five divisions evolved from a single 11-player squad in 1945. From 1945 until 1967, only one team was chosen. From 1967 through 1971, two teams, University Division and College Division, were selected. In 1972, the College Division was split into College I and College II. In 1979, the University Division was split into two teams — Division I-A and Division I-AA. In 1996, the College I and College II teams were renamed Division II and Division III, respectively. In 2006, the Division I-A and Division I-AA teams were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), respectively. The AFCA started selecting an NAIA All-America Team in 2006.

Top Team: Oklahoma has had the most players named to the AFCA Coaches’ All-America Team. The Sooners have been represented 61 times by 52 players on the AFCA team. They are followed by Ohio State (57/43); Notre Dame (56/49); Michigan (54/48); Southern California (54/49); Nebraska (51/46); Alabama (48/47); Texas (46/40); UCLA (34/32) and Georgia (34/29).

Top Conference: The Big 12 boasts the most AFCA Coaches’ All-America Team representatives among current conference members with 259, just ahead of the Big Ten at 253 representatives. Following those two are the Southeastern Conference (244), the Pac-12 (177), Atlantic Coast (166), Big East (67), Western Athletic (61), Mountain West (54), Conference USA (51), Sun Belt (40) and Mid-American (30) (Totals include school All-America selections in all divisions).
The 2011 conference-by-conference breakdown: SEC: 9; Big Ten: 6; Big 12: 5; Pac-12: 3; ACC: 1; MAC: 1.

Class Distinction: The 2011 AFCA Coaches’ All-America Team is made up of 12 seniors, 12 juniors and 1 sophomore.

 

[BrntO4Life]

Psyched to see Okafor on there. Dude had a hell of a second-half of the season.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

NAHSTE is wondering where the Honey Badger is...

Also, where is Brad Wing?

 

[Obst]

lol @ no Luke Kuechly. I mean he only won the Dick Butkus award and lead the nation in tackles for the second year in a row.

 

[NAHSTE]

NAHSTE is wondering where the Honey Badger is...

Also, where is Brad Wing?

Brad Wing should definitely have made it. Don't mind Mathieu not making it. Unless there was a designated spot for "havoc creator" he doesn't really have a true position.

 

[KnightNoles]

Shawn Powell > Brad Wing

 

[KNUBB]

Shawn Powell > Brad Wing

 

[NAHSTE]

Shawn Powell > Brad Wing

What's Powell's return average? Is it greater than 7 inches per punt? If it is, STFU.

 

[KnightNoles]

What's Powell's return average? Is it greater than 7 inches per punt? If it is, STFU.

• Powell had seven punts of at least 60 yards this year.
• Forty-three percent of his punts were downed inside the 20-yard line.
• Twelve of those were downed inside the 10-yard line.
• A whopping 63 percent of his punts are not returned.
• He became the first ACC punter to lead the nation in both overall and net punting since Ryan Plackemeier of Wake Forest in 2005. Funny thing is, Plackemeier won the Ray Guy award that year.
• He had a league-leading 21 punts of 50 or more yards.
• He set a school record with a career average of 44 yards.
• One more, just in case you were still unsure ... Powell held three of the nation's top punt returners - NC State's T.J. Graham, Oklahoma's Ryan Broyles, and Maryland's Tony Logan - to a combined five returns for 21 yards.

*Not even a Ray Guy Finalists :facepalm:

http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/33444/forget-ray-guy-award-fsus-powell-is-an-all-american

 

[Sharkweather]

Orson over Allen? Surprising, but I wont complain.

 

[KNUBB]

*Not even a Ray Guy Finalists :facepalm:

http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/33444/forget-ray-guy-award-fsus-powell-is-an-all-american

None of that answers NAHSTE's question. I know Powell doesn't have a 73 yard punt.

 

[KnightNoles]

love arguing about a PUNTER :smug2:

anyways I'll take the 21, 50+
and 7, 60+

OVER

1 70 yarder

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looks like I found a return average of 21 inches... *not official*

 

[NAHSTE]

Brad Wing is better, you say otherwise because you are a homer, and it looks pathetic that FSU has fallen so far that you have to pull the homer card on a punter. Now please STFU.

 

[KnightNoles]

I was definitely being sarcastic about arguing about a punter...

but really your saying STFU over return average?

I'm not knocking Brad Wing, I never said anything against him and give him a lot of credit. He should be an All American... :shifty: second team...

Give credit when/where it is due

Can we get another opinion, not an LSU or FSU fan...

 

[Irish]

Awesome I was hoping this thread would turn into a heated debate about which punter is better.

 

[KnightNoles]

Please tell me there was another WR better then Jordan White from Western Michigan?

 

[Obst]

Please tell me there was another WR better then Jordan White from Western Michigan?

Kendall Wright could be put ahead of him but White had a great season.

He had 115 catches (most in the nation) for 1527 yards (second in the nation) and 16 TD's (second in the nation). Well deserved.

 

[KnightNoles]

Kendall Wright could be put ahead of him but White had a great season.

He had 115 catches (most in the nation) for 1527 yards (second in the nation) and 16 TD's (second in the nation). Well deserved.

I believe the spot would have been Broyles but his injury cost him... duh

 

[Woy]

lol @ no Devon Still and a bigger lol @ Jerel Worthy being named over him, especially with Still winning all the conference awards and being a finalist for the awards tonight.