Mud Harris. Everyone remembers Dougie-to-Quezzie in TGGEPITS in 1997. Not enough people remember Mike "Mud" Harris, Gator Safety running from the opposite side of the field to barely nudge Travis Minor out at the 4 yard line on the FSU's last scoring drive. The Gator D dug in, and forced a Janikowski FG to put the Noles up 29 to 24. Mud doesn't run with every ounce of strength to chase down Minor, the Noles go up by 9 points with 2 minutes to go and the odds of a Gator win diminish greatly, as they say. Brandon Powell. Brandon Powell threw the block that re-directed three Vol secondary players, freeing Antonio Callaway to "he's going to score, he's going to score, he's going to..." score the go-ahead TD vs. the Vols. My point? Canyon Barry. Under 30 seconds in OT, Badgers up 2, Canyon Barry sells out to go all the way down the court to deflect a Badger player running unopposed to make a game sealing dunk. Cheese snags the deflection, drives down and lays it in to tie 81-81 with 24 seconds. Wisky makes 2 FTs, Cheese does what Cheese does and the rest is history. Barry preventing the Badgers from going up 4 allowed us to come back and tie, setting the stage where a 3 point should could win it...and did. I like to remember that it's often so much more than the one player we see most in the Youtube moments/highlights. It's a team game.
Canyon and Cheese were darn good players for 2 guys who started one game between them that year. MW was and remains a basketball genius.
Y Yep, Canyon's never-quit-on-a-play shot block saved us, allowing Cheese to complete the heroics. Two awesome plays in the last half-minute.
Speaking of Canyon, he was an 80% career FT shooter. Why on earth don't more players learn the under-handed technique?
