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[Islandboi]

Quick back story. I grew up in the islands. My uncle was a huge Cubs and ND fan. We had WGN so basically that's all the teams we got to watch. So that's how I became a ND fan.

Love this board because of all of the guys that's been watching ND for decades. Love reading about their experiences and memories. So I figured I'd ask.

If you guys can pick your starting 22. From any Era? Who would they be?

Don't go too far back guys. I'm still trying to catch up. Lol.

 

[Henges24]

My quickest 10 minute lineup of the post-2000s
QB- Brady
RB - Kyren
WR - Tate
WR - Floyd
WR - Stovall
TE - Mayer
OL - Zach Martin
OL - Quenton Nelson
OL - Ronnie Stanley
OL - Mike McGlinchy
OL - Jeff Faine (my favorite OL)

DL - Tuck
DL - Foskey
DL - Tuitt (playing down)
DL - Trevor Laws / Sheldon Day
LB - Jaylon Smith
LB - Teo
LB - Shembo (puke, but really liked him at ND)
CB - Shane Walton
CB - Julian Love
S - Kyle Hamilton
S - Tommy Z

 

[NDRock]

My quickest 10 minute lineup of the post-2000s
QB- Brady
RB - Kyren
WR - Tate
WR - Floyd
WR - Stovall
TE - Mayer
OL - Zach Martin
OL - Quenton Nelson
OL - Ronnie Stanley
OL - Mike McGlinchy
OL - Jeff Faine (my favorite OL)

DL - Tuck
DL - Foskey
DL - Tuitt (playing down)
DL - Trevor Laws / Sheldon Day
LB - Jaylon Smith
LB - Teo
LB - Shembo (puke, but really liked him at ND)
CB - Shane Walton
CB - Julian Love
S - Kyle Hamilton
S - Tommy Z

The Shark for Stovall.

 

[Blazers46]

My quickest 10 minute lineup of the post-2000s
QB- Brady
RB - Kyren
WR - Tate
WR - Floyd
WR - Stovall
TE - Mayer
OL - Zach Martin
OL - Quenton Nelson
OL - Ronnie Stanley
OL - Mike McGlinchy
OL - Jeff Faine (my favorite OL)

DL - Tuck
DL - Foskey
DL - Tuitt (playing down)
DL - Trevor Laws / Sheldon Day
LB - Jaylon Smith
LB - Teo
LB - Shembo (puke, but really liked him at ND)
CB - Shane Walton
CB - Julian Love
S - Kyle Hamilton
S - Tommy Z

Can’t argue with that, except I’d put The Shark in place of Stovall.

 

[luckofirish8]

QB - Brady Quinn
RB - Jerome Bettis
WR - Tim Brown
WR - Golden Tate
Slot - Rocket Ismail
TE - Michael Mayer
LT - Zack Martin
LG - Quenton Nelson
C - Jeff Faine
RG - Aaron Taylor
RT - Mike McGlinchey

DE - Ross Browner
DT - Chris Zurich
DT - Bryant Young
DE - Justin Tuck
WLB - Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah
MLB - Manti Te'o
SLB - Jaylon Smith
CB - Todd Lyght
CB - Julian Love
SS - Tom Zbikowski
FS - Kyle Hamilton

Went a little further back on some, but researching the names you don't recognize will be good for you. These are of course my personal favorites and not necessarily the "best."

 

[pumpdog20]

also post 2000 (mostly stole from Henges)
QB- Brady
RB - Kyren
WR - Tate
WR - Floyd
WR - Fuller
TE - Mayer
OL - Stanley
OL - Nelson
OL - Patterson
OL - Z Martin
OL - McGlinchy

DL - Tuck
DL - Nix
DL - Tuitt
DL - Foskey
LB - Jaylon Smith
LB - Teo
LB - JOK
CB - Shane Walton
CB - Love
S - Harrison Smith
S - Zbikowski

 

[notredomer23]

My quickest 10 minute lineup of the post-2000s
QB- Brady
RB - Kyren
WR - Tate
WR - Floyd
WR - Stovall
TE - Mayer
OL - Zach Martin
OL - Quenton Nelson
OL - Ronnie Stanley
OL - Mike McGlinchy
OL - Jeff Faine (my favorite OL)

DL - Tuck
DL - Foskey
DL - Tuitt (playing down)
DL - Trevor Laws / Sheldon Day
LB - Jaylon Smith
LB - Teo
LB - Shembo (puke, but really liked him at ND)
CB - Shane Walton
CB - Julian Love
S - Kyle Hamilton
S - Tommy Z

This was pretty much mine… I think I’m taking Fuller over Stovall though. Very close between them and Shark

 

[Socaldomer4212]

Post 2000
Qb- Clausen
Rb- Kyren
Wr- Tate
Wr- Claypool
Ol- Z Martin
Ol- Q Nelson
Ol- Faine
Ol- Stanley
Ol- Ryan Harris
TE- Mayer
TE- Rudolph/Eifert





DE- Tuck
DE- J Okwara
DT- Tuitt
NT- Derek Landri
MLB- Teo
MLB-Smith
CB- Love
CB- Blanton
Rover- Wu
FS- Hamilton
SS- H. Smith

 

[stlnd01]

I'd agree with a lot of those. But a few adds…

QB- Clausen (by ‘09 he was a straight baller)
RB - Kyren
WR - Tate
WR - Floyd
WR - Riddick (for a little slot action)
TE - Mayer
OL - Zach Martin
OL - Quenton Nelson
OL - Ronnie Stanley
OL - Mike McGlinchy
OL - Jeff Faine (my favorite OL)

DE - Tuck
DE - Foskey
DT - Tuitt (playing down)
DT - Lou Nix RIP (I think you’re shy one in the front seven so why not the one true war daddy)
LB - Jaylon Smith
LB - Teo
LB - JOK (more versatile than Shembo)
CB - Shane Walton
CB - Julian Love
S - Kyle Hamilton
S - Harrison Smith (But Zibby returns punts)

 

[DomerInHappyValley]

I honestly think we'd have to do a break down by era.

Does any one really take Kyren over Bettis, Watters, Pinkett?

Quinn or Clausen over Theisman Montana or Rice?

 

[stlnd01]

I honestly think we'd have to do a break down by era.

Does any one really take Kyren over Bettis, Watters, Pinkett?

Quinn or Clausen over Theisman Montana or Rice?

Yeah. I mean, there’s one team for the 2000s, another for the 80s/90s, another for the years prior.

 

[Henges24]

I'd agree with a lot of those. But a few adds…

LB - JOK (more versatile than Shembo)
S - Harrison Smith (But Zibby returns punts

I like these and Shark in place of Stovall, for sure.

 

[Henges24]

CB- Love
CB- Blanton
Rover- Wu

oh Lordy

 

[StPaul_Irish]

QB- Brady
RB - Denson
WR - Shark
WR - Floyd
WR - Fuller
TE - Mayer
OL - Stanley
OL - Nelson
OL - Patterson
OL - Z Martin
OL - McGlinchy

DL - Tuck
DL - Nix
DL - Tuitt
DL - Foskey
LB - Jaylon Smith
LB - Friday
LB - JOK
CB - Russell
CB - Love
S - Harrison Smith
S - Ajani Sanders

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Disappointed.

Thought this was about actual fighting, and wanted to end the thread with a Tate Nichols reference.


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[Irish du Nord]

Just for OLine of the 2010s, I would say if we just took 5 best regardless of the position they played at the time I’d have
Stanley-Q-Hainsey-Martin-McGlinchey

Just a quick run through on the overlooked Rob Hainsey:
2017-Split time with Tommy Kraemer to start at RT as a true freshman on a Joe Moore Winning line
2018-Playoffs
2019-Captain, injured in November. ND OL of the Year
2020-Captain, playoffs, Joe Moore finalist

Not a bad 4 years

 

[slick7410]

QB- Jimmy Clausen
RB - Julius Jones
WR - Golden Tate
WR - Jeff “the shark” Sam.
WR - Will Fuller
TE - Mayer , almost Eifert
OL - Zach Martin
OL - Quenton Nelson
OL - Ronnie Stanley
OL - Joe Alt
OL - Jeff Faine

DL - Justin Tuck
DL - Foskey
DL - Stephen Tuitt
DL - Sheldon Day
LB - Jaylon Smith
LB - Teo
LB - JOK
CB - Allen Rossum
CB - Julian Love
S - Harrison Smith
S - Kyle Hamilton

 

[WaveDomer]

I honestly think we'd have to do a break down by era.

Does any one really take Kyren over Bettis, Watters, Pinkett?

Quinn or Clausen over Theisman Montana or Rice?

Yeah, you have to do it by era, but most lists are going to be players we have seen play. Guys like Alan Page etc. are hard to beat but obviously a different era. I would definitely put Tim Brown on the list too.

 

[GrangerIrish24]

Jon Sot at punter. Nothing else matters.

 

[Old Man Mike]

I watched the teams of the 40s, 50s, and 60s ---you can guess what I think about these lists.
I pause to "stroke my chin" at names like ZMart, Teo, Harrison Smith... maybe some of the receivers.
Otherwise, we have many who are "The Stuff of Legends." .... Montana, Page, Hart, Lattner, Buoniconti, .....................
ex. There was a guy who played in the same backfield with Jerome Bettis who was better; almost no one today knows his name.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Just give me Zorich.

 

[Irish du Nord]

I watched the teams of the 40s, 50s, and 60s ---you can guess what I think about these lists.
I pause to "stroke my chin" at names like ZMart, Teo, Harrison Smith... maybe some of the receivers.
Otherwise, we have many who are "The Stuff of Legends." .... Montana, Page, Hart, Lattner, Buoniconti, .....................
ex. There was a guy who played in the same backfield with Jerome Bettis who was better; almost no one today knows his name.

Referring to Reggie Brooks?

 

[Irish du Nord]

I watched the teams of the 40s, 50s, and 60s ---you can guess what I think about these lists.
I pause to "stroke my chin" at names like ZMart, Teo, Harrison Smith... maybe some of the receivers.
Otherwise, we have many who are "The Stuff of Legends." .... Montana, Page, Hart, Lattner, Buoniconti, .....................
ex. There was a guy who played in the same backfield with Jerome Bettis who was better; almost no one today knows his name.

Who would your all time ND OLine be, OMM?

 

[Old Man Mike]

All-time ND OLine? Kind of a silly activity. I'll put ten guys on the page just to have the fun of it.
I don't want to engage in some goofy arguments defending these; if you don't like them, just scream invectives in my direction.
Also, I'll have to play a bit loose with positions. Again no defense for this.

One Tackle: Moose Krause and George Kunz
One Tackle: George Connor and Bill Fischer
One Guard: Zack Martin and Aaron Taylor
One Guard: Bob Kuechenberg and Quentin Nelson
Center: Jerry Groom and Jeff Faine.

In my era We had many great OLinemen: My class' two tackles were Joe Carollo and Bob Bill.
Anyone would have killed for them. The pros (Los Angeles and NYGiants) loved both of them.
Bill got hurt; Carollo did not and started about eight years as one of the NFLs unsung studs.
I mention this because it demonstrates that we have had SO MANY great players that "best"
teams are a absurd joke. Who can honestly say that any of our tackles was "greater" than Carollo?
... and nobody remembers him.

 

[Irish du Nord]

He was a top 5 player on our squad this season. Who was more impactful besides Mayer, Alt, Foskey, and Morrison?

Patterson

 

[IrishSteelhead]

I watched the teams of the 40s, 50s, and 60s ---you can guess what I think about these lists.
I pause to "stroke my chin" at names like ZMart, Teo, Harrison Smith... maybe some of the receivers.
Otherwise, we have many who are "The Stuff of Legends." .... Montana, Page, Hart, Lattner, Buoniconti, .....................
ex. There was a guy who played in the same backfield with Jerome Bettis who was better; almost no one today knows his name.

OMM, would you put Bob Crable on your list?


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[Chicago Domer]

What would be really interesting is to put a list of players by position on a list and due an all star type vote.

Btw, who wouldn’t want Tom Gatewood or Jack Snow on your team at WR or Gerry Dinardo or Steve Sylvester on the OL.

 

[Old Man Mike]

We have had some fantastic Linebackers. If we were reduced to three it would be outrageous.
Teo made a huge difference in lots of ways. I could never deny Nick Buoniconti. Jim Lynch was All-World.
But Crable ... IMPOSSIBLE STATISTICS. You'd have to find a way to put him on.