Legends Of The Fall 2018

One tradition that we have established here at Canespace over the last eleven years is that each year, when Fall practice starts and before the season begins, we ask bloggers to select their personal choices for what we like to call "Legends of the Fall".

This tradition actually started when CGNC, who is without a doubt a legend herself here on Canespace, started a series of player features with the same title. Years ago she wrote features about former UM players QB Kenny Dorsey and TE Jeremy Shockey and called them "Legends of the Fall".

In our fan selection process true "Legends of the Fall" are those players who the fans feel will have outstanding or "breakout" season for the Canes on offense and defense this year.

It's not about simply picking the Hurricanes' best players, but your personal favorites among the UM players apart from the usual suspects and most obvious stars. Some bloggers choose first or second year players who are likely to break on the scene as freshmen or sophomores.

Former winners include LB Sean Spence and WR Aldarius Johnson and QB Jacory Harris and DL Allen Bailey. Other winners were WR Leonard Hankerson and CB Brandon Harris. Then there was RB Lamar Miller and RB Duke Johnson and LB Denzel Perryman.

There are your unusual selections and surprises like kicker, punter and lead body slammer Matt Bosher who just happened to be the Canes 2008 MVP. The man was an absolute  beast on special teams but who woulda thunk it?

Other bloggers are more traditional or conservative in their picks and select juniors or seniors who are projected to finally have that one incredible breakout season that leads them to become a high round NFL draft selection.

These picks could really be any defensive or offensive player who may be primed to explode on the scene after a solid previous season or a spectacular Summer. Offensive and defensive linemen may not be popular or sexy picks but they are just as eligible as any other position player.

And don't forget special teams standouts too who can change a game with that one big play that shifts the entire momentum of a game. Some bold predictions even result in selections of completely unexpected dark horse candidates for this honor like Sam Shields a few years ago.

If these long-shot picks actually play out, the blogger who picked them look like an absolute genius. This is the most risky, but potentially most rewarding, approach of all.

Then again if you decide to take a leap of faith on a player and they don't ball out like you might have hoped or expected then you might wind up like old time blogger Cat5 who selected LB Arthur Brown or SolarCane who selected WR Thearon Collier and then well, U know what happens then.

It's your choice. Here are the 2017 LOF rules:

1. Pick one player on offense and one player on defense.
2. Pick one freshman for "Freshman Impact Player of the Year".
3. Pick one special teams player.
4. Pick one assistant coach or coordinator for "Coach of the Year".

Now make your choices and you may win Canespace prizes and other fun stuff like tickets to a football, basketball or baseball game. 

And remember: U gotta be in it to win it!

Comments

[AeroCane]

Other teams can play true freshmen in a national championship game and we can't even get ONE redshirt freshman ready???

Posted by: WWIN |

Totally agree and it makes me doubt both Richts capabilities.

GA got to the CG with a freshman; saben put a true freshman in during the CG and our pussy coach can’t get Williams or Weldon ready to play in a non conference game; rosier sucks and we were sold a bill of goods over the past 6 mos! Not even talking about how bad feagles was last year and hasn’t improved at all;
Our coaching is way overrated! They need to prove that they aren’t.

[WWIN]

^^^^^
💯💯💯💯💯💯

[Herbieibis]

What are we having these dudes for. They got to get their feet wet sooner or later. In my opinion they couldn't be any worse than Rosier has been. Whether it is against LSU or Savahnna St. They got to learn sooner or later. So.Cal started true FR. If u are telling me that 2 Red shirt freshmen are not ready, we are in trouble.

[DallasTX Cane]

I would have liked to have seen another QB run out for a quarter Sun night. Nothing to lose. In hindsight. U all forgetting one thing... how many comebacks happened last season? How many did Malik QB? He was terrible no doubt. But, we were in position to score with about 5 min left. That happens and we get the 2pt conversion, all of a sudden it’s a 1 possession game with 4+ minutes to play. We all saw it happen several times last season - get outplayed then miracle comeback. I bet U all a paycheck that Coach takes Malik out at 1/2 time and the replacement also sucks, fans will be screaming about giving up on the comeback king. He rolled the dice on Malik getting hot, like he did many times last season. He bet wrong.

Now, if the other QBs don’t get decent time the next few games I’ll be dumbfounded.

[TruCane81]

And they need to find a more efficient way to use Thomas...sure He had 132 yds. receiving, but He probably ran 500 yds. to get it.

Posted by: CaneRock | September 04, 2018 at 11:33 PM

Short game.

It was there. It worked. Thomas is perfect for it.

And no, letting Malik throw to a lonely receiver into the teeth of the cover one ain’t what I’m talking about.

It’s ok though, because what we have been doing is all we can do.

There is no way to get the ball into the hands of playmakers with a bad thrower.

When a guy can’t read the defense, you keep letting him try to do it.

What we have seen is ALL we can do.

Let’s just call it quits on 2018 cause our qb can’t throw.

Art Briles won a game with a wr as 4th string emergency qb...... coming from behind! No passes needed.

But it’s ok. What we are doing, is all we can do.

[86Cane]

NEW BLOG IS UP!

[CGNC]

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