My sophomore year. Awful, awful secondary

by Mike (bart), Saturday, February 04, 2012, 10:09 (5240 days ago) @ Spesh

Plus, a defense is only as good as its weakest link.

See Notre Dame, 2004. That front seven was good (Tuck, Abiamiri, Landri, Laws, Pauly, Budinscak, Hoyte, Goolsby), but man did that secondary suck. Burrell, Zibby (freshman version), Jackson, and Ellick. It also featured the Carlos Campbell as CB experiment, which failed miserably.

Hijacking my own reply to this thread, when did Freddie Parrish transfer? He was part of that team, but I feel like something happened. I don't remember him playing.

Dwight Ellick - it was like a whole year of 2011 Gary Gray vs. UM. Oddly enough, he did an ok job on Braylon Edwards in the UM game that year and was roundly convinced he was going to be a first round NFL draft pick. His other claim was being the guy behind us in line at Meijer while my roommate and I bought two handles of vodka and a case of adult diapers.

Quinten Burrell - There were rumors circulating that he only had a starting spot locked up because the coaches loved him on account of being Eddie Robinson's grandson. The contention never made much sense to me, but I learned long ago never to underestimate the complete weirdness of the Willingham era.

Preston Jackson - slowest pick six in football history vs. BYU to open the season. I always thought he was a tad underrated. Probably a C/C+ corner, but people talk about him like he was Clifford Jefferson v 1.1.

I had completely forgotten about the existence of Carlos Campbell.

Freddie Parrish definitely left during his/our sophomore year. I know he got in at least one bad fight at practice. I also know that he was involved in some pretty gross situations during his time on campus.