PSU Football - Mt. Rushmore

[RLCookie]

I saw this on FB for the NFL. Thoughts for PSU football?

If you were to carve a Mount Rushmore for your favorite team, which four heads would make the cut?

 

[Nitwit]

Mike Reid
Jack Ham
Kijanna Carter
Saquon Barkley

2 offense and 2 defense. My only possible substitution would be perhaps another great linebacker instead of Carter. Mike Mauti perhaps for helping hold the program together deserves a special recognition.

 

[Zenophile]

I saw this on FB for the NFL. Thoughts for PSU football?

If you were to carve a Mount Rushmore for your favorite team, which four heads would make the cut?

Cappelletti, Paterno, Mauti, & Barkley

 

[Lion8286]

Paterno, Ham, Conlan, and Barkley

 

[FrontFlipper1]

Paterno, Cappy, Mauti, Barkley

 

[Jovialgent]

I saw this on FB for the NFL. Thoughts for PSU football?

If you were to carve a Mount Rushmore for your favorite team, which four heads would make the cut?

If it is the Penn State "Mount Rush More" shouldn't it be limited to running backs?

 

[N&B4PSU]

Paterno, Reid, Mauti, Barkely

 

[Zenophile]

If it is the Penn State "Mount Rush More" shouldn't it be limited to running backs?

 

[NittanyLion15]

I saw this on FB for the NFL. Thoughts for PSU football?

If you were to carve a Mount Rushmore for your favorite team, which four heads would make the cut?

General James A. Beaver, Rip Engle, Joe Paterno, James Franklin

 

[WDLion]

I saw this on FB for the NFL. Thoughts for PSU football?

If you were to carve a Mount Rushmore for your favorite team, which four heads would make the cut?

Rip, Joe, Lenny and Rosie.

 

[psuro]

If it's team, then I don't think you can include Joe.

My favorite team is the 1986 team....because I was in school there at the time.
So, taking that into account

Conlan, Dozier, Johnson, Isom

 

[psu1969a]

Paterno, Mike Reid, Jack Ham, Paul Posluszny (or Sean Lee, Bruce Clark, John Cappelletti, S Barkley, or Charlie Pitman).

 

[GulfCoastLion]

Rip Engel, Joe Paterno, Lenny Moore, Jack Ham

 

[91Joe95]

Suhey, Surma, Erickson, Frazier. Has anyone else done more to save their football tickets?

 

[83wuzme]

If it's team, then I don't think you can include Joe.

My favorite team is the 1986 team....because I was in school there at the time.
So, taking that into account

Conlan, Dozier, Johnson, Isom

Not Tim Johnson ?

 

[uhlerlion]

thought they meant this

 

[LemonEars]

Joe Paterno alone.

We have had many great players over the years. However, no player's contributions to Penn State football come close to the impact of Coach Paterno. He should be on the mountain by himself.

 

[Kmase21]

Arrington, Barkley, Cappelletti and Jack Ham.

And Joe in the sky

 

[Option Bob]

Paterno, Reid, Mauti, Barkely

If I interpret the selection of Mauti correctly, N&B, you nailed it perfectly. My only edit would be Dennis Onkotz for Mauti, except for what the latter did to save the program in 2012.

 

[Ranger Dan]

Reid, Ham, Conlin, and Barkley

 

[PearlSUJam]

Mike Mauti perhaps for helping hold the program together deserves a special recognition.

Speaking of Mauti, and I've posted this elsewhere on this board, is anyone planning on attending this? It's been shared on Twitter by some of the players in the documentary including Mauti.

 

[MacNit07]

I saw this on FB for the NFL. Thoughts for PSU football?

If you were to carve a Mount Rushmore for your favorite team, which four heads would make the cut?

For Penn State play, not NFL: Paterno, Conlan, Barkley, KCollins

 

[Woodpecker]

Here's more

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Not Tim Johnson ?

The legend lives!

 

[psuro]

Not Tim Johnson ?

You got a different Johnson in mind?

 

[ILLINOISLION]

Reid, Onkotz, TBD (I’m thinking), Barkley.

IMHO, there are MANY very legitimate candidates to join Reid, Onkotz and Barkley, each of whom was arguably the best to ever play their position at Penn State.

Initial thought was Crappy, PSU’s only Heisman Trophy winner. But he missed one bowl game (Oklahoma) and was invisible in the other (LSU). (And yes, I know he was sick for Oklahoma and had an ankle injury he was nursing against LSU.)

So, in a close vote, I think I’ll go with Curt Warner in a very very VERY close vote. He helped earn JoePa his first NC.....he was the third choice in the draft.....I believe he scored the first time he touched the ball in back-to-back bowl games.

IF Mt Rushmore was expanded, Ham and Mauti would probably be my next choices.

 

[LoyalandTrueLion]

Joe Paterno alone.

We have had many great players over the years. However, no player's contributions to Penn State football come close to the impact of Coach Paterno. He should be on the mountain by himself.

Wouldn't that be more like the Crazy Horse monument?

 

[N&B4PSU]

If I interpret the selection of Mauti correctly, N&B, you nailed it perfectly. My only edit would be Dennis Onkotz for Mauti, except for what the latter did to save the program in 2012.

Exactly why I chose him over other worthy nominees (Denny, Ham, Conlan, Poz, Cappy)..Tough calls but I'm good with carving it up right now Conlan and Poz would make life easier on the chisel handler as both have faces that appear carved from granite

I would love to see a consensus vote and also see one from all the big name schools....see what they value. What I like about the listings I've seen here is that we value character as much if not more so than athletic ability (or, in the case of Paterno, it's ALL about character... a bit less so about his athletic prowess lol).

It'd be fun to see a holographic like display of each school's 4 horseman (if you will) chiseled in stone.

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

If it's team, then I don't think you can include Joe.

My favorite team is the 1986 team....because I was in school there at the time.
So, taking that into account

Conlan, Dozier, Johnson, Isom

I support that criterion. No Joe. More space for players and still an impossible decision.

Blackledge, Conlan, Mauti, Barkley

 

[Bob78]

I say let's call it Mt. Paterno, and stick to players being selected to honor it.

I also say that just because Mt. Rushmore is limited to 4 Presidents, why do we need to limit Mt. Paterno to 4 players? We have many, many great players at every position to choose from. 4 is too limiting. Let's break the Rushmore mold and get creative! Maybe 4 by position? Even that would bring on spirited arguments. Not sure I can limit mine to 4 PSU Teams, let alone players!

Same with other schools' fans.... how can Bama or USC or (other remain nameless B1G schools) limit theirs to 4? Mt. Rockne, Mt. Bryant-Saban, Mt. Hayes-Meyer, etc. can fill up the facade with dozens, just as we can.

It's our Mt. Paterno, and they're our rules for how we define it.

And for my next rant, let's discuss a PSU Ring (or Wall or whatever) of Honor instead of the retiring numbers nonsense (that Joyner insisted on to make a dig at Joe.....). Hey, we all love Cappy, but I don't love him more just because #22 is retired.

 

[AWS1022]

Paterno, Cappy, Ham, and Barkley.

 

[walleye38]

I saw this on FB for the NFL. Thoughts for PSU football?

If you were to carve a Mount Rushmore for your favorite team, which four heads would make the cut?

Always start with JoPa. The rest is debatable.

 

[CF LION]

My list will include players that played a critical role at a seminal time in PSU football history:

Mike Reid - Leader and arguably best player on the late 60’s PSU teams that really put PSU football on the map. This era transformed PSU from the perception of being just an eastern regional power to a national powerhouse.

Curt Warner - Best player on the first National Championship team. Played against a couple of heisman trophy winning running backs in bowls and defeated both.

Michael Mauti- Vocal, emotional and physical leader during the darkest hour of PSU football history. Convinced players to stick with the program after the NCAA tried to destroy it. Who knows for sure, but PSU football could have become SMU without his influence.

Saquon Barkley - I’m hedging here a bit, but Saquon’s superhuman abilities and ESPN highlights showed the nation that football is fun at Penn State again and will help fuel more great players to want to play here. I predict that he will be a great PSU football ambassador and one day when we look back we’ll point to him as key to the resurgence of a new era of PSU football greatness.

 

[step.eng69]

I also SEE what you did there, pretty cute.

 

[step.eng69]

If it's team, then I don't think you can include Joe.

My favorite team is the 1986 team....because I was in school there at the time.
So, taking that into account

Conlan, Dozier, Johnson, Isom

Cool, so was my son, engineering...freshman I believe.
My daughter would graduate in Bob PSU92's class.

 

[step.eng69]

Reid, Onkotz, TBD (I’m thinking), Barkley.

IMHO, there are MANY very legitimate candidates to join Reid, Onkotz and Barkley, each of whom was arguably the best to ever play their position at Penn State.

Initial thought was Crappy, PSU’s only Heisman Trophy winner. But he missed one bowl game (Oklahoma) and was invisible in the other (LSU). (And yes, I know he was sick for Oklahoma and had an ankle injury he was nursing against LSU.)

So, in a close vote, I think I’ll go with Curt Warner in a very very VERY close vote. He helped earn JoePa his first NC.....he was the third choice in the draft.....I believe he scored the first time he touched the ball in back-to-back bowl games.

IF Mt Rushmore was expanded, Ham and Mauti would probably be my next choices.

Wasn't Curt Warner the first freshman ever to start for Joe? Or something similar.

What say ye Art.

 

[PSU Mike]

Reid, Ham, Poz and Franco.

 

[The Spin Meister]

Wasn't Curt Warner the first freshman ever to start for Joe? Or something similar.

What say ye Art.

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My guess would Jimmy Cefalo

 

[Option Bob]

Wasn't Curt Warner the first freshman ever to start for Joe? Or something similar.

What say ye Art.

Not Art, but Jimmy Cefalo started at WB/RB in 1974, the year after freshmen were eligible. He was a star in the Cotton Bowl win over Baylor.

 

[Option Bob]

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My guess would Jimmy Cefalo

oops ... sorry Meister, I posted before reading your post. It takes me a while to get my pudgy fingers typing and my brain functioning.