LeDuc’s mean and bad boy list

Billy Dale — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:09:10 +0000

Dana LeDuc’s Mean and Tough list from the Aker’s era.

2022- Coach Vermeil with Dana at the NFL Hall of Fame ceremony. I recognize Dana’s sandals as a reproduction of one made in the late 1960s. ???? I think my mother has mine in the attic in Odessa.

Billy,

Going back in time, these are the guys that, if I were walking through a dark alley in a bad part of town, I would want with me.

Steve McMichael-tougher and meaner “than a junkyard dog” rattlesnake

Robin Sendlein-anybody who eats glass on their recruiting trip makes my team. Tall, lean & wirery but could pack a hell of a punch. His dad ate glass also.

Mike Ruether was a standout, powerful offensive lineman for the Texas Longhorns from 1980 to 1983, earning All-American honors and helping lead the team to major victories.

Kenneth Sims-a gentle giant with tremendous power and, if pushed to a point, it would not have been pretty for the opposition.

Dewey Turner (’82)- Dana says he was a large, powerful, defensive end with whom nobody on the team would challenge.

Larry Carlson says “

Ultimately, Dewey succeeded at Texas as a defensive lineman who could rush the passer. Turner was a physical specimen and a physical player.

Comments by Professor Larry Carlson. “ John Hagy was kicking ass in no time, despite almost zero weight training before college. Hagy could just play… fast, savvy, and a hitting machine. Man, I loved watching John Hagy compete.”

Professor Carlson says about Ricky Churchman, “ he sure was a ferocious hitter as a safety. I think he would’ve had an All-Pro career with the 49ers if he hadn’t been badly injured early on. He was a starter and a standout as a rookie, in the same defensive backfield with Ronnie Lott. And they won the Super Bowl the next year.”

Jeff Leiding absolutely annihilated a Razorback on the opening kickoff his first year. Completely blew him up. I would list that shot as one of the all-time snot-bubblers in Longhorn history. Everybody remembers that he was the bellcow of that ’83 defense, probably the best one ever at Texas.

The Texas defense emulated Leiding’s personality – cocky to the point of arrogance but backing it up with a physical style of play that simply wore opponents into submission.

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LeDuc’s mean and bad boy list

Dana LeDuc’s Mean and Tough list from the Aker’s era.

Comments by Professor Larry Carlson. “ John Hagy was kicking ass in no time, despite almost zero weight training before college. Hagy could just play… fast, savvy, and a hitting machine. Man, I loved watching John Hagy compete.”

Jeff Leiding absolutely annihilated a Razorback on the opening kickoff his first year. Completely blew him up. I would list that shot as one of the all-time snot-bubblers in Longhorn history. Everybody remembers that he was the bellcow of that ’83 defense, probably the best one ever at Texas.