From: chyang@engin.umich.edu (Chung Hsiung Yang)
Subject: Re: wuck fashington!!!
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 15:34:19 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Sep30.005606.10267@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> kdelgado@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Kevin Delgado) writes:
>Um, for those people in Michigan (not naming names or anything) who think that
>either Florida, FSU, or Miami have *ahem* small players on defense--think 
>again. Lemme give you just a sample of what kind of monsters we have down 
>here.
>
>Miami defense: (averages of team starters)
>
>Defensive line (4): Height:6-3 3/4 Weight:266  40yrd dash speed: 4.84
>Linebackers (3):           6-1 2/3        227                    4.51
>Secondary (4):             6-1/4          189                    4.50
>Total Average: 6-1.9, 227, 4.63
>40 yard times:
>Under 5.0: 11 players (all of 'em dammit!!!)
>4.81-4.99: 2
>4.61-4.80: 3
>4.51-4.60: 3
>4.41-4.50: 2
>Under 4.40: 1
>
>Florida State team defense averages:
>
>Defensive line (4): 6-3 1/2, 265, 4.72
>Linebackers (3): 6-2, 230, 4.67
>Secondary (4): 6-0, 197.5, 4.565
>Total Average(11): 6-1.7, 230.9, 4.65
>
>40 Times:
>Under 5.0: 11 (again...all of 'em)
>4.81-4.99: 2
>4.61-4.80: 4
>4.51-4.60: 3
>4.41-4.50: 2
>Under 4.4: 0
>
>I dont currently have U. of Florida's stats with me. But it is abundantly
>clear that not only are our players fast, but they are big as well. Of
>particular note of FSU's players are Dan Footman (6-6, 280, DE) and Sterling
>Palmer (6-7, 260, OLB). I see these guys on campus here all the time (they are
>very hard to miss) and it never ceases to amaze me how huge these guys are.
>The worst part of it is...these guys have almost no body fat...lean as all 
>hell. And FAST. These two guys aren't even the biggest on the team. There is a
>freshman offensive tackle by the name of Forest Connoly who is 6-7 and weighs
>in at a whopping 340 pounds. Oh, let me tell you what..we got speed...we got
>size...AND we got talent. Don't think for a minute that that isn't the case.
>Just because we don't have a bunch of weight-watchers clients on our teams
>dont mean we cant play against..and beat..them. Need I remind you folks in
>Michigan of the 51-21 ass wupping we gave your sorry butts last year. You guys
>talked all along about how your ten ton offensive line would push around our
>defense and allow your running backs to walk all over us. But it didnt happen.
>When it gets right down to it, we just blew right past your _slow_ lumps of
>fat and got the job done. Hell, if you guys didnt have Howard who knows how
>bad we would have stomped ya (shame he went to a school like U. Mich.--he
>might have been able to get himself a ring to match that trophy of his if he
>had gone to a school who knows what modern football is).
>
>The point of all this ranting and raving is this. Florida...southern football
>in general..._IS_ the football of today. We not only have the fastest and most
>talented players on the whole...but we possess the highest level of 
>competition around. Granted, Washington does have a good team...with lots of
>size and speed.  But get real, until they get a competitive schedule they just
>cant match up with the big boys here in the south. It is just one of those
>things where you just have to see it to believe it...I look forward to an
>undefeated UCLA season so that Washington can finally get a chance to play a 
>real opponent (not from the big fat...er 10) like ND, Miami, FSU...etc. I 
>think that would give a definite answer to the question of who plays better 
>ball. The south of course.
>
>Kevin.
> 

	With Penn State entering the Big Ten and competing against
Michigan for the Rose Bowl Bid, a lot of confusion should be cleared up.

	BTW, quite a few ND starters are from Seattle. (Lake Dawson, D. Duboise)It give you an idea what kind of talent there is in Washington.  Over 50%
of the players in UW is from the state itself.  These are quality football
players.  Especially, quarterback.  Just count how many PAC-10 quarterbacks
that are starting in NFL.  And count how many Washington quarterbacks there
are.  It would give you an idea as well.  (Warren Moon... amoung others)
Anyway, I'll stop here.

	But wait for the Washington-Miami home and home series 4 games
starting 1994.  And Washington-Notre Dame home and home series (I don't
know the dates).   They should be the rivalries of the decade.  It'd be
interesting because Dennis Ericson, coach Miami, grew up and lives north
of Seattle.  And Don James is a Miami of Florida alumnus.  There is
a lot of Pacific northwest connections between those games.  
It should be fun.

May your team win next weekend.

Chung Yang.

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>When asked why I chose to come to FSU, I paused and thoght for a moment. At
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