[hulkamania]

Fair enough, Dudley has seen his share of games to be sure, but I'd take the word of an NFL hall of famer over his for as far as recognizing talent, no offense to him. Munoz was used to seeing Cincinatti teams, etc. and worked the radios as an analyst for many games, so I think it's fair to say he also knew what he was talking about.

Irregardless, the numbers you mention are speed and bench presses. Those don't necessarily win games (speed can, of course). To say it is lunacy to imagine a "team of that stature" beating the 97 team is lunacy itself. I am venturing to guess you aren't old enough to compare back beyond what you are referring to (90's and up), but if you had seen the 87 team in action, I'd guess you would have to agree with all the other posters here.

I agree though, great thread for discussion, and would have loved to have seen these two teams play. Maybe we can get some computer expert out there to do one of the NCAA sims based on the stats? LOL

Well, the problem with your assumption is that 90 percent of the posters are from Pike county. Yes, I'm old enough to have seen the team, just never had the opportunity, but I remember the hype and was a fan considering they were a mountain team. My referal to the a team of that stature was considering the middle school play book offensively and definsively that I saw on the video and heard about as well. Which, don't take offense to that, please, because it's awesome to have a team who can take a playbook like that and make it work as well as they did and that's a compliment in my books to that team, but as the game evolved so dramatically in the early and mid 90's, I don't believe that team with that offense and defense could've beaten the bobcats of the 97 team. I'm not saying it wouldn't have been a competitive game, but one of the things I was pointing out was the speed and strength and my point was to the person who posted how fast that 87 team was, the 97 bobcats were not to be outdone in those areas.

I'm not sure about that ncaa thing, but what would be awesome is something like that virtual fight with rocky in the latest rocky movie, how awesome would that be. lol. Find somebody to do that for us and we'll take up a collection.