OTish- Son of guy who lost Heisman to Woodson commits to NCSU

I think the bigger issue was that Moss played at Marshall.

Randy was a monster at Marshall and was good enough to play for an elite D1 school until he got kicked out twice at FSU and Notre Dame. His numbers at Marshall were unreal

Fair enough. I was pretty young when he was in college, so I only know NFL Moss. If he was that good in the NFL I can only imagine what he did at Marshall.

In 1997, ESPN MACtion was not a thing.  There were not 25 different sports channels. Marshall literally had ONE regular-season game on National Television all year: the MAC title game that aired on ESPN2.  Every other game was only on local West Virginia over-the-air television.  That was IT.

People only saw the numbers (26 TDs, 1 every game!) and the occasional highlights (his most infamous highlight was a 90-yard catch-and-run against Army).

But enough people recognized that, he got just enough votes to get the invite (he finished 4th).  He was a supernova.  Moss was absolutely remarkable at Marshall --- and of course he validated his greatness the very next year by taking the NFL by storm with Minnesota (1998).

then Leaf, then Moss (who gave a hug, not shown in the link below).  Moss just sort of sat there himself for the first few seconds.

https://youtu.be/BY6iOAxGi8c?t=18m59s

Remarkably, this is the ONLY on-line video of the ceremony I could find.

Yeah--blue.since really lost it on the Jordan Elliot thread. Flame on, begging to be negged stuff: noxious belligerence, ugly misogyny, personal insults, squeaking defensiveness. It was quite a display.