🏈 Today's trivia challenge: Talent levels in the SEC.

[TerryP]

Only one rule in this thread today. You can't look up their roster.

Well, two rules. I'm going to pull two names out of the equation.

Eric Berry and Jonathan Crompton can't be mentioned as answers.

Here's your question.

Name a player on the 2009 UT roster with SEC experience...

 

[capooth]

Jeff Cottam but i dont know how many games he has played in, if i hadn't grown up down the street from him then I would not be able to name a single player from UT.

 

[bama4life]

 

[252BAMA]

Does Smokey return?

 

[ghice]

Does Smokey return?

With his tail between his legs :lol:

 

[TerryP]

Jeff Cottam but i dont know how many games he has played in, if i hadn't grown up down the street from him then I would not be able to name a single player from UT.

You've hit the point.

Granted, I'm not the best to comment on this because I've afflicted with this thing called addiction to football combined with a memory that tends to remember a lot of names.

Anyway...

I got to thinking this morning about teams people are familiar. Then, how many players become household names (or at least sports fans know them) when they are successful on the field.

Take Florida last season.

Tebow, Harvin, Spikes, Dempsey, Raines, Wright, Dunlap, the Pouncey's...

I stopped there.

It was a team loaded with talent, and loaded with names I'm sure you guys all recognized.

I don't know for sure, but I'd guess if I were to ask a rival fan to name Bama players off the top of their head from last year we'd hear Ro, TC, Rashad, JPW, Coffee, Julio, Andre...

This year, we'd hear Greg, Julio, TC, Ro, Ingram, Hightower, Arenas...

Do you see where I'm going?

Now, let's change the subject and bring it closer to home.

Names off the top of your head at Auburn.

 

[capooth]

Now, let's change the subject and bring it closer to home.

Names off the top of your head at Auburn.

Cadillac...wait no...Ronnie...no not him either.. well I am stumped.

Now that you have me thinking about this, I can name players from every other SEC west team except Auburn. Heck, I can just about say the same for the east and UT

 

[Perdido Tide]

Names off the top of your head at Auburn.

Lets make it even harder. How many Auburn players can you remember because of their on the field success?

 

[HIGHTIDES]

From Auburn I can think of:

Fannin
Burns
Hawthorne (not really worth remembering though)
Trott
McNeil
Savage
Etheridge
Bynes
*Pugh
*Ziemba
*not for good reasons

Theis doesn't mean any of them are worth remembering, I just happen to know their roster a bit.

At UT I can think of...
McCoy

haha.

 

[TerryP]

From Auburn I can think of:

Fannin
Burns
Hawthorne (not really worth remembering though)
Trott
McNeil
Savage
Etheridge
Bynes
*Pugh
*Ziemba
*not for good reasons

Theis doesn't mean any of them are worth remembering, I just happen to know their roster a bit.

At UT I can think of...
McCoy

haha.

You're about as much of a junkie as I am so I'm fairly sure you are borderline on qualifying for this. In football terms, a prep schooler for sure.

 

[CtrlAltDel]

Eric Ramsey

As far as coaches go, how could you not like Tater-Tot?

 

[bear facts]

Isn't Arian Foster returning for his sixth or seventh year?

 

[BamaCore]

UT I probably couldn't name one player. Auburn with the usual Burns, Fannin...and isn't their FG kicker coming back? Can't remember his name.

 

[TerryP]

Isn't Arian Foster returning for his sixth or seventh year?

No, he's already signed with an NFL team.

Sad story really...

If you recall he was thought to be a 2nd round guy in 2008 before deciding to come back for another year.

I know he went undrafted...I *think* he ended up with Houston.

 

[HIGHTIDES]

You're about as much of a junkie as I am so I'm fairly sure you are borderline on qualifying for this. In football terms, a prep schooler for sure.

hahahahaha.