Favorite Wash-outs

by TexasGarcia37 on Jul 3, 2009 6:09 PM CDT Comment 24 comments

With it being the dog days of summer, I thought I might add a post for people to chime in on. I was wondering if other people had favorite wash-outs from UT. While I was attending UT, '90-'96, there was one player who was amazing on the football field and garbage in the classroom. His name was Butch Hadnot. His name will echo in the hearts and minds of people my age who were at UT during the early '90s. He was an awe-inspiring combination of size and speed. Hadnot would run over and around people for huge chunks of yardage. I rode with him alone in an elevator and the dude was built like a tank. Alas, the guy couldn't handle the student part of being a student-athlete and left the University. B. Hadnot was a shooting star that lit up Memorial Stadium and then burned out. Please list any of your favorites as well.

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Good topic. Thanks.

Gotta start something like this with RB Edwin Simmons (Akers era, early ’80s) . . . As I recall, he had a big game against BlowU around 1982, ’83, but had a funky knee and never really played again. Big, fast, potentially a Ricky Williams type.

There are tons of others, probably a stud a year on average. Coupla recent ones I can think of are DT Andre Jones and OT J’Marcus Webb (he was All-American last year at W. Texas A&M after one year at UT).

by edsp on Jul 3, 2009 6:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Was simmons the one caught nekkid on campus?

by the other Andrew on Jul 3, 2009 9:52 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yep!

by utexas87 on Jul 3, 2009 10:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The dude was dumber than a stump

but was huge and he could run. That was back in the day that a top recruit could drive his black 3 series around campus and nobody thought much of it, except he must be good. He was like a bottle rocket, shot straight up and straight down.

by jkovach on Jul 4, 2009 9:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Simmons had one leg longer than the other

by about a half an inch. His body had adjusted to that to some degree but after the knee injury he was never quite the same. His 67-yard TD run against OU in 1983 sealed that game and seemed to promise the world for Texas fans. After the injury he never regained his form.

by whills on Jul 5, 2009 7:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Gotta throw Ramonce Taylor in there somewhere.

He was that “wildcard” type of back who was a homerun threat on every play, be it a WR, RB, or on kick-off returns. Too bad he couldn’t stay away from the drugs.

by junglerules on Jul 3, 2009 6:48 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Ramonce is my pick.

by burntorangehorn on Jul 3, 2009 9:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

HELL NO....(Excuse my french)

I will always despise this guy…he is the epitome of a “Waste of Talent!” Sure VY was able to keep him in line for 2 years. But along those two years I got to know Mr. Taylor on numerous occasions. Two times in particular come to mind:

One time when playing a pickup game at the GRE, I was fortunate enough to have him on my team. LOL Homeboy either jacked up a 3 (from NBA range) or tried to go 1 on 3 to the hole for a dunk. (We lost…but I was fortunate enough to play against him later that day. Where I fouled him as he was going for a previously mentioned 1 on 3 dunk. Insert F-bomb here directed at me)

I was an Intramural Supervisor and I had the pleasure of throwing out Mr. Taylor of a playoff basketball game. Why you ask?!?! Maybe because he kept riding/harassing my officials about calls that he wasn’t getting or because he was trying to intimidate the other team by getting in their faces. All these are passable reasons to eject someone…but I gave the guy a chance and talked to both captains that this was not going to continue. So game goes into OT and the teams are lining up for FT’s…What great idea does Ramonce have?? Hey maybe I should goal tend this Free Throw and it won’t count!!! I was shocked by what I saw…after I came to my senses, I calmly walked over to Mr. Taylor and asked him to leave….Insert expletive laced rant as he leaves and storms off the court.

end rant….
Just really can’t believe how this guy can go from having the ability to play in the LEAGUE to being a public nuisance to the Belton/Temple area.

by BACON51 on Jul 3, 2009 10:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Guess I should clarify my "nomination" of ray-ray....

I always heard that he was a bit of a prick/ douche/ troublemaker. More than anything else, I nominated him due to the talent factor of having many of the physical tools to succeed, but letting his extracurricular activities wash out his college career. “Favorite” might not be the word best used to describe him, though.

How about Brian Pickryl? Talk about injuries really derailing a career…..

by junglerules on Jul 3, 2009 11:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

His movie was sad too

That speech by Gale Sayers, gets me every time.

"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden

by run Bevo run on Jul 4, 2009 9:14 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

????

Talking about this guy.

http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/tex/graphics/newsstand/ESPN.com_-_Life_of_Bryan.pdf

by junglerules on Jul 4, 2009 12:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

he was making a joke about Brian Piccolo.

And the movie Brian’s Song.

by billyzane on Jul 4, 2009 3:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Another superbly obscure and humorous reference by RBR.

by burntorangehorn on Jul 4, 2009 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I didn't realize he was joking....my bad

I know who Brian Piccolo is. Isn’t Brian’s Song one of the few movies that can make most men cry? I haven’t seen it, but that’s what I always hear….

by junglerules on Jul 4, 2009 3:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

watch it!

succumb!

"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden

by run Bevo run on Jul 5, 2009 1:46 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you dont well up for Brians Song

You arent human.

by BoddickerIsClutch on Jul 6, 2009 8:27 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Its just that it consistently gets dusty when I watch that move. /nt whills

by ctex80 on Jul 6, 2009 9:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Allergies always seem to rise when it comes on.

"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden

by run Bevo run on Jul 6, 2009 11:30 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

love it

by SneezyBeltran on Jul 4, 2009 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

thanks

I thought it would be obvious, guess not.

"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden

by run Bevo run on Jul 5, 2009 1:43 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

ha ha....it should have been!

Guess my sarcasm meter was running low on batteries that day….

by junglerules on Jul 6, 2009 9:40 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Big Things Were Expected But Little Was Delivered

Anothony Byerly RB Newton was the top recruit in the state in 81.He was the cover boy for one recruiting mag.

He did next to nothing on the field although he won three letters in 83 85 & 86.

I asked some of his team mates what’s was going on with him but they just shrugged thier shoulders and moved on.

I saw Tony DeGrate in Houston in 84 when he won the Lombardi trophy and asked him what was going on with Bylerly.He too gave me a noncommittal answer.

I had seen Byerly play in high school and he was unstoppable.What happened to him while he was at UT I’m sure many know but i haven’t ever found anyone who would tell me.

So for now I guess Byerly will just have to be labeled one of the Longhorn enigmas
we see now and then.

by TCB Orange Dino on Jul 4, 2009 6:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs