🏈 2013 College football Hall of Fame inductees announced tomorrow (Tues) via ESPN3...

[TerryP]

11:30 EDT is the broadcast.

Once again, Derrick is on the ballot.

Will he be left out of the inductees again?

http://www.footballfoundation.org/N...ge-football-hall-of-fame-ballot-released.aspx

 

[BAMANEWSBOT]

The late Derrick Thomas again snubbed by College Football Hall of Fame

His records of 27 sacks in a season and 52 in a career apparently aren't impressing enough voters.


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[TerryP]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Bama">#Bama</a> great Derrick Thomas, who once had 27 sacks in a college season, somehow still not selected for the CFB HOF. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23huh">#huh</a>?</p>&mdash; Bruce Feldman (@BFeldmanCBS) <a href="https://twitter.com/BFeldmanCBS/status/331800427211390976">May 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Teddy Bruschi, who tied NCAA record for sacks, voted into CFB Hall of Fame. The man whose record he tied -- Derrick Thomas -- snubbed again.</p>&mdash; Cecil Hurt (@CecilHurt) <a href="https://twitter.com/CecilHurt/status/331800879835533312">May 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[planomateo]

What a shame.

 

[riz]

Continues to mystify me.

 

[252BAMA]

His records of 27 sacks in a season and 52 in a career apparently aren't impressing enough voters.


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How can they impress voters when they are not in the record book? NCAA did not keep stats on sacks prior to 2000. Therefore, nothing prior to 2000 on sacks is in the record book.

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2012/fbs.pdf

 

[UAgrad93]

How can they impress voters when they are not in the record book? NCAA did not keep stats on sacks prior to 2000. Therefore, nothing prior to 2000 on sacks is in the record book.

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2012/fbs.pdf

Agreed, but they credit Tedi Bruschi for tying his career sacks record! WTH?

 

[doemasters]

Hall of Fames are mainly politics in my eyes anyway

 

[252BAMA]

Agreed, but they credit Tedi Bruschi for tying his career sacks record! WTH?

Yep, and neither of them are in the record book. Rumor is that they are holding DT until 2014. For the first ceremony in Atlanta.

 

[bamaraider]

Brett Mussberger still to this day says Derrick Thomas had one of the best defensive performances in a single game than he has ever seen. One of the best pass rushers to ever play the game. Safe to say they don't know what they're doing up there.

 

[planomateo]

So, will Alabama fans ban the College Football HOF when it officially opens in Atlanta (it is moving from South Bend, Indiana...)

 

[JoshB]

This is a damn shame, how its possible for that man to STILL not be in the college HOF is a joke.

 

[bamaraider]

Career Sacks
Derrick Thomas 1985-88 52
Bruschi 1991-95 52

Career TFL
Derrick Thomas 1985-88 74
Bruschi 1991-95 74

Forced Fumbles
Derrick Thomas 1985-88 10
Bruschi 1991-95 ?

Fumble Recoveries
Derrick Thomas 1985-88 5
Bruschi ?

Blocked Kicks
Derrick Thomas 1985-88 5
Bruschi ?


Total tackles for career
Derrick Thomas 1985-88 204
Bruschi 1991-95 185

Thomas - Butkus Award Winner
Bruschi - Lombardi finalist

 

[bamaraider]

I know this is when he was in the NFL and not in college, but look at what he did:

DT won Byron “Whizzer” White Humanitarian Award (1995). The "Whizzer" White NFL Man of the Year Award honors work in the community for the NFL player who best served his team, community, and country.

DT also won the NFL Man of the Year (1993) now called the Walter Peyton NFL Man of the Year Award. The Payton NFL Man of the Year award honors a player's volunteer and charity work, as well as his excellence on the field.

While with the Chiefs, Thomas started an inner-city reading program with his Third and Long Foundation. As part of the literacy program, he read to children at local libraries each home Saturday during the season.

:bs::thumbsdown: