What about "most wasted athlete"?

[Drebin]

Name the athlete that was great, but wasted on terrible teams.

I'm going to go ahead and give the correct answer - Jerius Norwood.

 

[coach66]

Brandon Woodruff

nm

 

[GTAT]

Tyler Moore and Eric Moulds but yeah, Jerious wins that. Moulds suffered through the 1993 Jordan/Taite/Plump crap, 1994 was good, then 1995 was just pitiful. Not a bad team, had a lot of close losses, just dysfunctional. I think that may have been the year Moulds and Taite started fighting over a certain girl.

 

[DawgInThe256]

Jeff Malone

 

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

Really wish I could have seen Omar Conner, and Norwood play in Mullen's offense.

 

[o_dawgnabit]

Jerius Norwood is correct but I’m going to give an under the radar pick and say Gavin Ware

 

[kphall11]

Jerius Norwood is correct but I’m going to give an under the radar pick and say Gavin Ware

Craig sword

 

[KentuckyDawg13]

Dontae Walker

 

[jack daniels dog]

Boobie Dixon under three years of Croom has to be in the discussion

 

[$altyDawg]

Name the athlete that was great, but wasted on terrible teams.

Most wasted athlete, not due to terrible teams, but terrible coaching - Aeris Williams

 

[Xenomorph]

Brad Corley has to be in the discussion.. Maybe he doesn't take the trophy because his teams weren't truly horrible. They won an SEC tournament (17 those Mother17ers) and went to 3 regionals... But damn that guy could do it all and Polk couldn't figure out whether to pitch him or play him in right.

 

[Predestined]

Jace Christmann

 

[GTAT]

Brad Corley has to be in the discussion.. Maybe he doesn't take the trophy because his teams weren't truly horrible. They won an SEC tournament (17 those Mother17ers) and went to 3 regionals... But damn that guy could do it all and Polk couldn't figure out whether to pitch him or play him in right.

Dumb. He was a 3 year starter and all his teams made regionals and one hosted. I think he hit .380 or better one year.

 

[dawgman42]

Chuckie "Mighty Dog" Evans.


Still my favorite MSU PG.
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[Xenomorph]

I'm sorry you think one of the best players in our history getting put out 3 years in a row in regionals doesn't qualify as wasted.

 

[dawgman42]

I think that may have been the year Moulds and Taite started fighting over a certain girl.

Yeah, The Kang's daughter.

 

[GTAT]

I'm sorry you think one of the best players in our history getting put out 3 years in a row in regionals doesn't qualify as wasted.

You should be sorry. The teams Jerious teams on, vs. Corley's team, well....legit LOL. Just stop.

If you're looking for a baseball player, it's Tyler Moore. I'd say Connor Powers but at least he got to play on the 2007 team.

 

[Drebin]

I’ll throw in a vote for Detric White. He would be a beast on this team. Orien Watson, too.

 

[johnson86-1]

Most wasted athlete, not due to terrible teams, but terrible coaching - Aeris Williams

If he didn't have a significant attitude/work ethic problem that was hidden, he has definitely been one of the most screwed players for somebody that still managed to have a successful career. Sat behind an older, less talented player until what, basically A&M game in 2016? Gets a year and change in the spotlight, but then for his senior year, ends up sitting some behind a younger, more explosive player that wasn't as good at the little things as he was, and even when he played, had a coach/QB combo that inexplicably couldn't get the ball handed off to him.

Just shows you how lucky you have to be to be a big time college football player. He was a hell of a RB, was much more talented than the RBs in the two classes ahead of him, avoided major injury, had a pretty good Oline available most of his career, and still basically only got to enjoy one good, complete season.

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

Wasn’t he suspended twice during the season for violation of team rules?

 

[muddawgs]

Dontae Walker

Walker wasn't wasted. He got wasted. Walker wasted his own talent. He was a lazy as they come.

 

[aTotal360]

Omar would have set records that Dak wouldn't have broken.

 

[$altyDawg]

I don't recall that happening to Williams, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

 

[johnson86-1]

Wasn’t he suspended twice during the season for violation of team rules?

He wasn't ever officially suspended I don't think. At least one game early in the season he didn't play (or didn't play much?) and Moorhead said something about accountability maybe? Don't think he gave any specifics but at the time I thought he was benched for not responding well to being second string.

ETA: Found his quote:

[FONT=&quot]“Playing time on Saturday is dictated by your performance during the week and accountability and all those things,” Moorhead said. “Based on this week’s body of work, we felt it was Kylin (Hill) and Nick Gibson who did the best job and deserved the repetitions on the field.”[/FONT]

 

[Hanmudog]

Kevin Fant. Poor guy got knocked stupid behind some atrocious offensive lines and never really had an offense that fit his skills.

 

[Grove Sh*tter]

Iupe

 

[hullabaloodog]

Norwood is tough to top in this category. I'll give "The Big Train" Horatio Webster an honorable mention and one for Quinton Culberson too.

 

[JoMo MoJo]

Anthony Dixon pre-Dean Marvins

 

[She Mate Me]

Jeff Malone

This is the correct answer. Sorry Drebin.

DD Lewis also springs to mind.

 

[MSUDC11]

Jeff Malone and it may not be close. NBA all star, Top 10 draft pick, and we never even made the dang NIT when we had him.

 

[DAWG61]

Jamont Gordon

 

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Swede...just think what he could’ve done under Croom.

 

[Moe Cabelle]

Don Smith would have been fantastic in a spread offense.

 

[mdm3045]

Kylin Hill???

 

[woozman]

Kevin Fant should be in the discussion. He played behind some BAD offensive lines...

 

[CadaverDawg]

2018 MSU Defense. All of them.

 

[RutherfordBHayes]

William Prince
To be fair, he blew up his knee back when they couldn’t fix them.

 

[VegasDawg13]

Jeff Malone and it may not be close. NBA all star, Top 10 draft pick, and we never even made the dang NIT when we had him.

He also played for one year with another future pro, Rickey Brown. We went 13-14.

 

[Swede39]

Swede...just think what he could’ve done under Croom.

So many what if's...

 

[StarkVegas Steve]

Omar Conner. He'd have set records in Mullen's offense that still wouldn't be touched. Replace Relf with Omar in 2010 and we win a national championship.