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When you lead a team to three Super Bowl victories, you tend to get some good Press, and a pretty good reputation.
When people think of Troy Aikman, they think of greatness and success. Everyone knows about his exploits as the leader of the Dallas Cowboys, who were terrible when they drafted him, but quickly became three-time World Champs with Troy at the helm.
But not everyone knows about Troy's stellar College Career at UCLA, after transferring from Oklahoma. The point is, it hardly matters. Aikman will get all the votes he needs, just off of his Pro career. Luckily for those of you who believe in Justice, his Bruin career WAS worthy of inclusion into the College Hall. Although he failed to win the two most important games of his tenure, he won just about all the others, including two Bowl games. He was unbelievably accurate even back then, and on the rare occasions where he WAS off-target, it was almost always on the side AWAY from the defender. The Bruins were so good during the Aikman Years that they actually came within a couple of yards of being #1 in the Country.
There is no doubt that Aikman belongs in the College Hall, especially after winning the Davey O'Brien Award, the Pac-10 Player of the Year Award, and finishing 3rd in the Heisman voting. Randy Cross, although no less deserving, might have a tougher road to cross to join Troy.
Cross was an Offensive Guard back in the mid-seventies, when the Bruins won the Rose Bowl over a heavily-favored Ohio State. He was solid and consistent, and went on to a fine Pro career as a Center for the 49ers. Currently, he is one of the most-utilized National Network Football Broadcasters, having paired often with the great Dick Enberg over the years. We would imagine that many voters will remember him more for his Frisco Days, and for his TV commentating expertise, than for his 23 straight starts for the Bruins, but we're hoping that the respect he has earned post-UCLA will get him in.
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As a little follow-up to yesterday...
Scott Wolf Revisited: Still no more info on Wolf's site about Dominique Byrd's DUI, but Wolf, who is a trOJan himself and used to work for The Daily Trojan, made a comment that makes us wonder: Why does Scott Wolf HATE Matt Leinart?
Wolf has an entry whose whole purpose was to slam sc's favorite Ballroom Dancer. Wolf says that Leinart just tried, and failed, to pick up actress Scarlett Johansson. Then Wolf basically implies that Unwed Father Mattie can get only losers, skanks, and junkies. Then, Wolf makes a Lost in Translation joke. He should have said that she left Whineart on an ISLAND. Okay, so we're just CLONING around, but Lost in Translation is SO 2005.
So what's Wolf's beef with the poster boy for the one-pete? Don't all trojans stick together? Isn't O.J.'s jersey still HANGING in the Mausoleum, when it should be Simpson himself? Whiny Dancer must have done something PERSONAL to really piss off Wolf. Not that it's tough to piss off a wolf. Maybe Wolf lost money betting on Leinart's pathetic Arizona Cardinals. Or maybe it was a bathhouse love triangle: Wolf wanted an "exclusive" but Ballroom Boy refused to become "Dances with Wolf." Regardless, it's always great to see them turn on each other -- Divided they fall.
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