Chris Rix Lifetime Achievement Award
To find out the final list of 2008 recipients, click here!
You may ask yourself “What award could possibly be named after Chris Rix?”. No, it’s not for consistently mediocre QB’s, or for guys who seemed to lose their job 292 times but somehow regained it every time. You see, we here at straitpinkie are all about honoring unique talent. In this case the unique talent is the ability to seem like you have played a college sport for 7-10 years and make fans say “oh my god, he’s still in college?!?!”.
The key to winning this award is to gain playing time very early in your college career, and play for consecutive years for a high profile team. Your case can be helped by a few things: 1) redshirt year due to injury 2) playing point guard at Duke 3) being particularly annoying/obnoxious 4) being white (note that 2, 3, and 4 usually coincide).
There have been countless Chris Rix’s throughout my time watching college sports, and we need a place to honor them (YES WE CAN) and make fun of them (YES WE CAN), and straitpinkie is that place (YES WE CAN)
. The award was originally to be named after Brian Cardinal, but I didn’t want people to think this was an award for garbage basketball players who managed to get an absurd contract from an unbelievably dumb organization. With that said, the namesake of the award is up for consideration, and if a better namesake shows himself, he will be honored.
I’m going to start things off by naming a few of the charter recipients, and open things up for nominations. Also, please note that all UK players are ignored, because I don’t think a fan has proper perspective to evaluate membership of players in his/her team.
Chris Rix
Brian Cardinal
Chris Duhon
Walter Hodge
Steve Wojciechowski
Gerry McNamara
Chris Leak
Ronald Steele
Pat White
Mateen Cleaves
Greg Paulus
Dante Cunningham
Eric Devendorf (who is simply Gerry McNamara part II, so it seems like he’s been around for years, plus, he redshirted so HE’S ONLY A JUNIOR, albeit soon to be suspended. If he had gone to Duke he would be the most significant honoree)
Bobby Frasor
Juan Palacios
Sasha Kaun
Drew Neitzel
Levance Fields
Wayne Turner
Jeff Smoker
Aaron Miles
Reggie Ball
Ron Dayne
Ron Pawlus
Carl Krauser
Julius Hodge
Chris Weinke
Bobby Newcombe
Jess Settles
Luke Recker
Drew Tate
Ellis Myles
David Padgett
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How ’bout your boy Dominic James…he is still at Marquette. Man was gonna go pro after his junior year of high school.
Alot of these postings don’t belong here, just of the top of my head: aj price & hasheem thabeet (uconn) are junior and sophmore respectively. Hansbrorogh is a 3yr player, Ron Dayne played the standard 4yrs. I think the lot of you idiots just put down the players that have been dominated your lousy teams, who ever they maybe. I contend that being a above average player is enough to keep you off this list. What I do agree with regarding the list: being an FSU fan Rix is the gold standard, so is weinke. Mcnamara and neitzel are good ones too, all the rest are just wannabe fans putting in their two cents acting like they know. KEEP IT TO YOURSELF IDIOTS!
Rony Seikaly played 12 years for Syracuse. Swear to god.
how can you forget the two KU players. Kirk Heinrich and Nick Collison played at Kansas for like 30 years.
My buddy and I have played this game for about 4 years now, but we started it with the Gerry McNamara Award. I’ll give you Rix, but I think G-Mac is about as epic as any.
I would also like to add Eduardo Najera at OU, seemed like he was there forever.
jawad williams was on UNC for 45 years
What about any running back for Ohio State named Wells…most notably Maurice, I swear he started out backing up Maurice Clarett.
is it just me or was j.j. reddick given tenure at duke and only recently retired? that guy was around forever
It’s crazy that we think of the same people. I always thought that Reggie Ball QB at georgia tech for about 8 years. irony is that he was suspended for his last game.
J.J. Redick was at duke for 6 years atleast.
I nominate Jimmy Claussen to receive this award in 2011.
HEY, GANG… Impressive how much thought you’ve all put into this, and who’d have thunk there’d have been so many qualified candidates available. Anyway, let me introduce the bracket buster into this debate. John Manley, basketball player at Cal Poly. What’s that? You’ve never heard of Cow, err, Cal Poly? That’s okay. The NCAA hasn’t, either, which is why “The Man” gets to keep playing year after year, decade after decade. This dude migrated out from Minnesota the first time it ever snowed there, then started shooting hoops on a sunny, warm January afternoon at an idyllic, beach-adjacent location. In time, the California State University system decided to build a polytechnic campus beneath and around him. He’s of sound character. Has bachelor degrees in every major Cal Poly offers, along with a few advanced degrees. School produced Ozzie Smith, John Madden and “Weird” Al Yankovic. Fear this guy, he’s legit. His birthname. Fastbjörn Gunnarsson, was anglicized over the years.
Brooks Bollinger – QB at Wisconsin from what seemed like the Ron Dayne days until the Booker T and Anthony Turner days. Also Terrance Dials for Ohio State B-ball…4 year starter with a medical redshirt in there. Brian Cook for Illinois b-ball
I might have to add Jackie Manuel from UNC bball, he of the ambiguous first name-last name transition (is it Jack E. Manuel, is it Jack Emanuel, or is it Jackie Manuel? I still am not totally sure).
We used to have a saying for guys that seemed to be there forever were on teh Carlos Huerta Plan. I think Heurta kicked for the whol decade of the 90′s for Miami.
Also J.J. Joe seemed to be running the veer at Baylor’s for about 6-7 years.
David McClure @ dook! WTF….that kid has been there 4ever.
Carlos Huerta was the kicker for the University of Miami in the late ’80′s through the mid ’90′s for 7 years straight. His freshman year was Howard Schnellenberger’s last year at UM, his career spanned the length of the Jimmy Johnson era, and then won a national title with Dennis Erickson. He may have also had a brief stint under Butch Davis.
The original was Milt Wagner at Louisville. Seemed like he was there most of the decade of the 80′s
FACT: Nik Caner-Medley spent about 10 years at Maryland. Sucked all 10 of those years.
Jess Settles WAS actually in college for 7 years (1993-1999)! He was in my brothers grade in school. My brother was 4 years older than me and JS finished his career when I was a SOPHOMORE in college!
I used to call this the TOBY BAILEY AWARD. He played for UCLA with the O’Bannon brothers his frosh year and I think he just graduated last year.
How ’bout David Padgett? That fucker just didn’t go away. Also, Chris Quinn and Chris Thomas from Notre Dame.
All QB Team:
Oscar Davenport- QB North Carolina
Steve Taneyhill- QB South Carolina
Thad Busby- QB Florida State
Matt LoVechio- QB ND/Indiana
Zebbie Lethridge- QB Texas Tech
Rashard Casey- QB Penn State
Johnny Johnson- QB Illinois
Kurt Kittner- QB Illinois
Brian St. Pierre- QB Boston College
Ortege Jenkins- QB Arizona
Corey Pullig- QB Texas A&M
James Brown- QB Texas
Andrew Zow- QB Alabama
Wayne Madkin- QB Miss St.
Romero Miller- QB Ole Miss
Herb Tyler- QB LSU
Jarious Jackson- QB Notre Dame
Terry Dean- QB Florida
All Running Back Team:
Trevor Cobb- RB Rice
Travis Prentice- RB Miami (OH)
Errict Rhett- RB Florida
Travis Minor- Florida State
Bruce Perry- RB Maryland
Ricky Whittle- RB Oregon
Siran Stacey- RB Alabama
Leon Johnson- RB North Carolina
Ja’Mar Toombs- RB Texas A&M
Cecil Sapp- RB Colorado State
Avon Coubourne- RB WVU
Kyle McIntosh- RB Syracuse
Rondell Mealey- RB LSU
Eric McCoo- RB Penn. St.
All Fullback Team:
Pooh Bear Williams- FB Florida State
Brian Milne- FB Penn State
Marc Edwards- FB Notre Dame
Cecil Martin- FB Wisconsin
Joel Mackovicka- FB Nebraska
All Wide Receiver Team:
Brian Poli-Dixon- WR UCLA
Mario Bailey- WR Washington
Craig Yeast- WR Kentucky
E.G. Green- WR Florida State
Craphonso Thorpe- WR Florida State
Travis McGriff- WR Florida
Dallas Baker- WR Florida
Anthony Mix- WR Auburn
Rufus French- TE Ole Miss
Quinton Spotwood- WR Syracuse
Gari Scott- WR Michigan State
Derrick Mays- WR Notre Dame
Joey Getherall- WR Notre Dame
Terrence Edwards- WR Georgia
All Kicker Team:
Billy Bennett- K Georgia
Remy Hamilton- K Michigan
Chris Sailor- K UCLA
carlyle holiday
I guess Patrick Pinkney gets left off because he doesn’t play at a high profile enough place– East Carolina.
On the other hand, next year will officially be his 6th year there. He played his first game in 2004, and he still has a year left.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3855883&campaign=rss&source=NCFHeadlines
Did anyone ever notice that Iowa football had a Thigpen on the roster at DB from about ’81 through ’04? He had a bit part in the movie ‘The Program’ when Eastern played Iowa. He’s gotta be at the top of this list.
I am honestly more shocked at the Kid Rock nomination.
Chris Brown has and is becoming the new century OJ
Sorry I didn’t read through every comment – but did anyone mention Dee Brown – the former Illinois PG – for consideration on this list?