David Terrell D-Back 1999 Penn State
All right so I am home sick today (really am sick) and am watching 1999 umich/PSU game on ESPN classic. So I follow umich football religiously since I was a kid and was at that game in Happy Valley and I have ZERO recollection of David Terrell playing cornerback in 1999. Was that a one game thing? Just wondering if anyone remembers the background on our #1 WR playing DB against a very good Penn State squad.
I don't remember that against PSU, but I think they put him on Plaxico Burress in the '98 MSU game because nobody could cover him. Didn't work out too well.
But yeah, they put Terrell on Plaxico and, just like everyone else in our secondary that day, he got worked. That was the only trip I took to East Lansing during my college career. Ugh.
Sigh...that '99 Michigan team was awesome.
Right, they had him try to cover Plaxico and, if I recall, he tried to jam Burress and got put on his ass.
because plax was packing some heat in his football pants
If I recall correctly, it was terrell who had the bomb ass dick, not plaxico.
So unless you were talking about some other kind of "packing heat in his football pants"................
I can't tell if you're joking or not. If you're not, he was talking about this:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3733021
I'm sure he was joking
i'm not
Who got the bomb-ass dick?
Eury--freaking hilarious. I forgot about that.
Do you remember Rich Eisen alluding to that on Sportscenter? classic...
... did he get abused by Plax (I was shooting the game for the Lansing ABC affiliate and was standing in the end zone when Burress used him for a TD), Terrell got an interception against Northwestern IIRC.
Your handle is "Larry Harrison Fan Club"? Really?
Terrell played sparingly at DB all season. Ron Bellamy did as well. The unexpected departure of William Peterson (kicked off the team), coupled with the graduation of Andre Weathers, left a hole at CB that we didn't really fill that year. It really was our only weakness. Peterson had great talent. If he'd still been on the team, I believe we would have gone undefeated in '99.
1999 was Year 1 of the Oh God Don't Throw It Near Whitley or Howard show. When we went up against bigger receivers, like Plaxico, Terrell got thrown in there, because CB #3 and CB #5 were basically RR dust mites without the hiptyshifts. Their only backup was Brandon Williams, a Jacob Stewart clone. After that, it got sketchy: walk-ons like Van Pelt and the aptly-named Brian Smalls (5'6"), Brackinses (we hates Brackinses) and true freshman Jeremy LeSueur, in whom we, not knowing much yet about player progression, had much misplaced faith so early.
We used to call Whitley the Future Star of the XFL.
I was at the MSU '99 game that year too, and Terrell actually did the best job covering Plaxi McShootypants of anybody.
The CB situation was baaaaad with a lot of a's until Marlin arrived, and even after. Zia Combs actually showed signs of becoming a diamond in the rough around that time, but had a career-ending injury. This is also when OSU started beating us in head-to-head recruiting battles for the No. 1 or 2 CB -- Jamario O'Neal, Donte Whitner, Chris Gamble, Michael Jenkins, Nate Salley, Ted Ginn, et al. Lots of these guys became safeties and receivers, but I remember those hauls in Columbus being a stark contrast to us getting a "next Woodson" every other year.