Thats the one
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Ricky was an absolute legend
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There we go.
My all-time favorite baseball player. Incredibly hard worker, massively talented, and a walking entertainment center. There are so many fun tidbits and stats itās hard to pick one or two.
I liked that he generally didnāt use his food per diems, and would instead put the money into little envelopes heād keep in a box. When one of his kids did something good, heād let them pick one at random. And on the other side, he stole 1,400+ bases and no one else in baseball history even has 1,000.
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There are so many funny Rickey stories out thereā¦you could spend all day on youtube.
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It turns out I was thinking of Jared Prickett, I think. Not really ginger and no high top fade. So much for remembering. Anyway, shout out to Rick Pitino for tweeting this which reminded me:
I thought this guy was one of the seniors on that 92 Kentucky team that lost to Duke on Laettnerās shot, but he wasnāt.
Reading about those 4 guys they call the Untouchables, Woods and Pelphrey got into coaching, Feldhaus played in Japan for 5 years and then moved on with his life and Farmer, man Farmer.he was probably my favorite player on that game. Maybe because of his name.
Farmer got into politics and was Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner and then ran for Lt. Gov (but lost). Afterwards he got convicted of breaking campaign finance laws and misappropriating state resources and got 27 month in fed prison.
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Perfect! Iām going to stop reading hereā¦ 
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This made me choke on my water.
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Mustāve been an experience to make an account to respond! 
Welcome to the forums!
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Trevor Cooney
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Picking 4 ACC all-time is tough. Thompson and Ralph are locks. After that, I donāt know. Hard not to include Laettner with his career stats and 2 titles. Hurley is in the running too. Jordan obviously. Duncan for sure. Hard to leave Tyler Hansbrough off, the all-time leading scorer with a title.
*Iād like to point out that Bryant Stith scored more career points than Laettner, and if you removed all the hardware/titles, had arguably a better statistical college career. 6th all time on the scoring list.
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Iāll say something semi-controversial. Jordan is only there because of his NBA career.
No doubt a great college player, but not Mt Rushmore great. The Heels have probably 10 guys who had college careers as decorated.
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Oh man. This is just wrong
As in beyond controversey
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Letās say Jordan had the NBA career of James Worthy. Is he still on the Mount?
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Dont think too much. You wanna go Phil Ford instead?
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Said another way. If the greatest player in the history of the game came from your conference you Rushmore him or her
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I was kind of in the same camp, thinking Jordanās college career wasnāt worthy, I was in diapers for most of itā¦then I pulled up his UNC profile. Heās definitely in that all time class.
National player of the year, game winner to clinch a national titleā¦averaged 20 PPG his last 2 years before the 3P line. 3.0 stocks one year as a guard. 1.1 blocks his last year. The guy was dominant during one of the greatest eras.
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I get it. I understand why heās there. But if youāre arguing strictly college resume, what did MJ do that Hansbrough didnāt?
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Would it shock you that a 6ā6 guard who played in the best era of college bigs (rim protection) had a higher career field goal percentage than a 6ā10 forward in a guard-dominated college game?
(.540 to .536)
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