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Utilizing the trusty search function on Volnation, I noticed that this general topic has been seriously bandied about two times since 2004. You have just been commissioned, by me, to do a "Mount Rushmore of Tennessee Football" sculpture. In contrast to the National Memorial in the Black Hills, there is sufficient room on your "canvas" to accommodate four players and one coach. If you find that there are simply too many greats for you to limit your selection of candidates in this manner, there is an alternative funding scenario for you to work on Mount Everest and portray the eleven greatest players and coaches in Tennessee history. Again, however, you must select only one coach.
In making your selections, please consider the following criteria:
(1) This is an all-time "Mount Rushmore," not one pertaining strictly to the modern era.
(2) Selections must be based strictly on their achievements at UT; success in the NFL is irrelevant.
(3) Selections should reflect sustained excellence over the course of an entire career, not one meteoric season. This would eliminate such supremely talented players as Chuck Webb, through no fault of his own.
(4) Purely as a memory jogger, I have provided the link to the full list of 72 UT players who have achieved All-American status. See UTSPORTS.COM - University of Tennessee Athletics - Football. This should serve as a minimal baseline for consideration.
(5) Please give consideration to the historical depth of Tennessee's program. Players who have been multi-year recipients of All-American honors are in a special class of their own. We have only 16 of these, with Bob Suffridge (1938, '39 and '40) topping the list.
With no further ado, let the debate begin. Who are your best of the very best to ever don the Orange and White?
In making your selections, please consider the following criteria:
(1) This is an all-time "Mount Rushmore," not one pertaining strictly to the modern era.
(2) Selections must be based strictly on their achievements at UT; success in the NFL is irrelevant.
(3) Selections should reflect sustained excellence over the course of an entire career, not one meteoric season. This would eliminate such supremely talented players as Chuck Webb, through no fault of his own.
(4) Purely as a memory jogger, I have provided the link to the full list of 72 UT players who have achieved All-American status. See UTSPORTS.COM - University of Tennessee Athletics - Football. This should serve as a minimal baseline for consideration.
(5) Please give consideration to the historical depth of Tennessee's program. Players who have been multi-year recipients of All-American honors are in a special class of their own. We have only 16 of these, with Bob Suffridge (1938, '39 and '40) topping the list.
With no further ado, let the debate begin. Who are your best of the very best to ever don the Orange and White?
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