Favorite College player that never made it

Grits n Gravy · Post #21 » by **Grits n Gravy** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:11 pm

kirk penney - wisconsin....i'm just a new zealander homer but he was and still is a beast

miltk · Post #22 » by **miltk** » Wed May 2, 2012 10:29 am

wayne estes

ed o'bannon

Cal_Bears · Post #23 » by **Cal_Bears** » Sun May 6, 2012 10:12 pm

Cal:
Jerome Randle
Theo Robertson

UConn:
Denham Brown

Brovva Blaqq · Post #24 » by **Brovva Blaqq** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:41 pm

miltk wrote:ed o'bannon

A shame how his career went down. I thought he would become a superstar for sure. Dont know why it did not happen tho.

CBB_Fan · Post #25 » by **CBB_Fan** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:51 pm

Danny Manning. Sure, he had a long, productive career. But consistent ACL injuries (including one time with both ACLs torn) stopped him from being a perennial All-Star. He was Greg Oden before Greg Oden, a #1 draft pick with injury problems.

joseph mamah · Post #26 » by **joseph mamah** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:32 am

tractor traylor he bounced around the league for a while but he never did nothin, he could never put the cheeseburger down.

crgreen · Post #27 » by **crgreen** » Thu Aug 2, 2012 7:10 am

miltk wrote:wayne estes

ed o'bannon

Wow - my EXACT two.

Most folks know Ed's story - with a dead man's tendon replacing his destroyed ACL before his freshman, at 2 games a week and limited practice time in college he was one of the greatest of all time; at 4 games a week in the pros, the leg couldn't hold up, and he was a 3 season journeyman.

But Estes? HE died almost 50 years ago - so a lot of folks don't know the story. His accidental electrocution on his way home from his last college game (stopped at the site of a traffic accident to see if he could help, and brushed a downed power line) might have changed the face of the NBA for a decade, as with territorial drafts, he likely would have joined Jerry West and Elgin Baylor in their primes in the Lakers lineup in the mid 60's. 33.7pts, 13.7 rebs as a senior at Utah State.

ExplosionsInDaSky · Post #28 » by **ExplosionsInDaSky** » Fri Aug 3, 2012 11:46 pm

My votes go to Shaheen Holloway, Dedric Willoughby, AJ Guyton (personal favorite), Dee Brown (illinois) and Tyson Wheeler. Electric players in college but never got it going in the NBA.

nolang1 · Post #29 » by **nolang1** » Sun Aug 5, 2012 1:13 am

A lot of Big 10 guys on this list; how about Shawn Respert? Talk about a lights out shooter. The fact that he was able to hang on in the NBA for that long even while dealing with stomach cancer is pretty remarkable.

joseph mamah · Post #30 » by **joseph mamah** » Tue Aug 7, 2012 4:51 pm

yeah even though im a UM fan I liked respert a lot. Another guy i always liked was wojo from duke. He was never going to be an NBA player but he was a great college player.

Slot Machine · Post #31 » by **Slot Machine** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:04 pm

Darington Hobson was amazing at New Mexico.

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harithak47 · Post #32 » by **harithak47** » Wed Sep 5, 2012 4:01 am

Jon Scheyer (Duke), playing for Macabi Tel Aviv but I expected him to be a solid backup, still has a chance

Aaron Miles (Kansas)-, one of the best pur PG's i've seen in college basketball, if only he was taller and could shoot it a little

Hollis Price (Iowa State)- Guy was a dominant collegiate scorer but couldn't do anything to make a foothold in the pros

Post #33 » by **Ruzious** » Fri Sep 7, 2012 7:00 pm

Will Avery. I was sure he was going to make it big and was a better NBA talent than Jay Williams. I really believe Coach K harsh words blasting him for turning pro against K's wishes affected him.

Btw, I see a lot of Ed Cota fans posted. I had some brutal arguments with his fans at the time, but this isn't an I told ya so thread. Anyway, I was really wrong about Avery.

Going back a lot of years, John "Hot Plate" Williams was a player I thought was going to be a superstar, but he ate his way out of the league.

624 · Post #34 » by **624** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:52 am

MeloNY · Post #35 » by **MeloNY** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:53 pm

Big fan of Gerry McNamara out of Syracuse, kid had heart!

Cammo101 · Post #36 » by **Cammo101** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:39 pm

Lawrence Moten (Syracuse)
Omar Samhan (St. Mary's)
Marcus Dove (Oklahoma State)
Shan Foster (Vanderbilt)
Shawn Respert (Michigan State)
Tim Pickett (Florida State)

TradeMark · Post #37 » by **TradeMark** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 12:43 pm

Ed Cota (UNC)
Miles Simon (Arizona)
Reggie Freeman (Texas)

Warspite · Post #38 » by **Warspite** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:05 am

GothamGM wrote:I wish Jason Gardner would have made it. He was stellar in college (played as a starting PG for 4 years, including the NC vs Duke as a soph). I think he was in the same boat as cleaves. Gardner was undersized, not a freak athlete, or lightning fast either.

Actualy Cleeves was all of those things but broke his back in a horrible car accident on a recruiting trip. He was never the same player or as good at MSU as he was in High School.

Marcus Fizer to this day baffles me. Im just guessing hes just another in the long line of over hyped BIG12 talent. From Rex Walters and Danny Manning to Stacy King and Big Country. Most every Big12 stud has been a underachiver.

Post #39 » by **Jake0890** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:05 pm

Steve Alford (IU)
Adam Morrison (Gonzaga)
Tyler Hansbrough (UNC)

And who can forget Greg Oden?

ThatsWhatIShved · Post #40 » by **ThatsWhatIShved** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:45 pm

Juan Dixon, Maryland
Salim Stoudamire, Arizona

Salim got a raw deal imo. Stuck in Atlanta during the ISO Joe era. His stats when he got 20+ minutes in his career are great. He could have had an Eddie House type career. Just an unreal shooter.

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