Crimson Red Sports

Just wondering who y'all might consider Bama's best all-time athlete in all sports. I think I might go with Antonio McDyess - big, strong, jump through the roof, etc.

Too many to pick one. I'd hate to see Prothro left off the short list.

I say Johnny Musso or our TE that was so great, he is now the Football Operations for the Ravens, sorry I forgot his name. Those are my 2 choices gosh they are so many that I was just thinking you could pick any one. RTR!

Ozzie Newsome

Yes BAMAWV, thank you so much. Lordy you going to have a job correcting me today. I think I have done the auburn hop, lost my mind and trying to keep going in other words. RTR!

Andre Smith

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Coach Bryant said the best athlete he coached was Joe Namath. Joe ain't looking too happy in the picture.



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I have figured out the answer. The Best player at Alabama ever, was every player who ever played at the Capstone! RTR!

Pure athlete? Without a doubt,  Quintaris "Julio" Jones


 Read this:

   "We were monitoring his heart rate at the combine, and three minutes before he was to run his 40, he was at 125 beats per minute. So, he's ready — he's not laying around at 70 beats per minute, ready to fall asleep. Then, when he stepped up to the line, without warming up at all, boom — his heart rate shot up from 125 to 146. And what we learned in military testing from Special Forces guys is that you don't want to be below 140 beats per minute, and they don't want to be above 160. Above 160, your judgment goes down, your reaction time goes down, and your peripheral vision goes away, basically. But when you get in that zone, there's a heightened sense of reaction time, and you have optimal strength output. It really showed for him.

"So he went up there, and he crushed it. In his 4.39 40, he generated 8.73 Gs in his 40 start. To reference that, out of the 30-plus guys we tested on the 40, in terms of Gs generated in the first second, they averaged out in the high 60s. And these are the most explosive guys — the ones going in the first and second rounds.

"Keep in mind that you're at one G just standing. So, the range is more like 1.0 to 8.73. He was 20 to 30 percent better than the most highly trained athletes. A normal human being, like Rich Eisen? 1.9 Gs."

Dwight Stevenson.  Bear said he was the best player he ever coached...if the Bear says this, its the Gospel in my house.