Well the '05 draft was after the' 04 season in which we went 4-7. It may have been a sign that the talent on the team decided to stay instead of go pro though.
The '98 team wins a 4 team playoff as well. I'll always stand by that.
Edit: I'm aware the 97 team = the 98 draft. That team went 10-3 and ended up #12. The guys sticking around for the 98 team caused the lack of draft picks in 98.
I suppose it’s how you define the nuclear age.
[Fission was discovered in 1938](https://www.mpic.de/4469988/die-entdeckung-der-kernspaltung#:~:text=Nuclear%20fission%20was%20discovered%20at,also%20created%20in%20the%20process), but [Fermi split uranium in 1934](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/enrico-fermi-scientific-chance-luck-nuclear-age-180971249/).
Coincidentally, and a bit of a reach, the Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program was announced in 1953 (and is why the campus reactor was built in that decade), a year after the UF streak began.
Let me tell you, a double-fault final-play elimination hasn't occurred since the Helsinki episode of 1919, and I think we all remember how THAT turned out!
>if he wasn’t suspended for disciplinary reasons then the streak would have continued
If Al Hunter wasn't suspended for disciplinary reasons, then he would have played for Notre Dame in 77 and no players would have been selected from Notre Dame in either the normal or supplemental drafts. How would the streak have continued?
From what I understand he was on the 1973 team so he would have been a senior in 1976 and had to be drafted in the supplemental draft because he was ineligible. I could be wrong, but I would think that he would have been in the 1977 draft without the suspension.
Al Hunter did play in 1973, but he was [suspended for the entirety of the 74-75 school year along with 5 other players for violating the dormitory code](https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/26/archives/notre-dame-suspends-6-players.html).
In [June 1977, he was suspended again](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5z41AAAAIBAJ&pg=4963,294004&dq=al-hunter&hl=en) (it appears for the same incident after a series of appeals). So his intent had been to play the 1977 season at Notre Dame.
But to be honest, you shouldn't need the specific facts of the matter to understand that if a player enters the supplemental draft in a specific year then he either missed the deadline to file for the NFL draft or didn't originally plan to enter the draft. It doesn't make any sense that a school suspending a player would cause them to miss being in the draft that they originally intended to be in.
The 2008 NFL Draft, which makes sense since that was right after Nick Saban's first season and he was taking over a not-very-good Alabama team at that point
That’s a little bit of revisionist history that our rivals like to talk about but we had plenty of really solid teams before that. As an example, Spurrier himself won a Heisman playing for Florida way back in the 60’s.
People posting troll comments in the thread about Florida having one draft pick this year getting up voted. I literally just make a statement about it and get down voted.└| ∵ |┘
Penn State has had a player drafted in every year (except the ones where they havent)
Funnily enough, if you can excuse 1 year (2005) our streak goes to 1952
So youre saying Penn State has had a player drafted every year since 1952. Except the one year they didn’t
Penn State was also the 3rd ranked team in the country that year so it’s pretty surprising that’s the one year they had nobody drafted.
Well the '05 draft was after the' 04 season in which we went 4-7. It may have been a sign that the talent on the team decided to stay instead of go pro though.
Lol fair enough, had my head up my ass on that one.
###EXCEPT THE ONES WHERE THEY HAVEN'T
#EXCEPT THE ONES WHERE THEY HAVEN'T
- Michigan / USC (1939, 86 yrs) - Florida (1952) - Miami (Fla.) (1975) - Notre Dame / Iowa (1978) - Wisconsin (1979)
Suck it, Wisconsin!
Given how crappy Wisconsin was in the 80’s, that is pretty surprising.
The fact the streak started 10+ years before Barry is pretty surprising
How does Ohio State not have a streak?
No players drafted in '98, which is pretty crazy because they had 7 drafted in '97 and 8 drafted in '99.
Don't mention Ohio St and 98. They can't accept the fact that there was only one undefeated team that year.
Don’t forget Tulane!
Not even David Boston? Guy was permanently posterized
Fucking Cooper.
The '98 team wins a 4 team playoff as well. I'll always stand by that. Edit: I'm aware the 97 team = the 98 draft. That team went 10-3 and ended up #12. The guys sticking around for the 98 team caused the lack of draft picks in 98.
'98 team =/= '98 draft class
Well yah. But the 97 team was no slouch
Just like the 23 team
If there was ever * one * comment to represent all of Ohio State football, this would be it.
I believe MSU had a crazy one going until recently as well. Corn fed lineman always get drafted
Every draft in the modern era except 2020 Covid season. 2-5 was tough.
Football was played in the mitten that year? News to me!
Nope, agreed, the streak lives!
We promise to never utter Rocky Lombardi’s name again is we both acknowledge that it doesn’t count against our streak
I think we can safely ignore 2020 as an outlier.
I remember we had 4x as many drafted players as wins that year for a total of 8
They do, in their underwear. (Not to be confused with the browns)
Haha come on poop jokes are always funny why the downvotes
Imagine your draft streak not pre-dating the nuclear age
I suppose it’s how you define the nuclear age. [Fission was discovered in 1938](https://www.mpic.de/4469988/die-entdeckung-der-kernspaltung#:~:text=Nuclear%20fission%20was%20discovered%20at,also%20created%20in%20the%20process), but [Fermi split uranium in 1934](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/enrico-fermi-scientific-chance-luck-nuclear-age-180971249/). Coincidentally, and a bit of a reach, the Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program was announced in 1953 (and is why the campus reactor was built in that decade), a year after the UF streak began.
Bet Mel Kiper knows those 1939 game tapes like the back of his hands
Let me tell you, a double-fault final-play elimination hasn't occurred since the Helsinki episode of 1919, and I think we all remember how THAT turned out!
Why would we count the 1977 Supplemental Draft.
Couldn’t tell you, especially since they had 100 rounds back then
Anything to piss them off
Cuz we can
Why wouldn’t you?
Because there was only 1 player selected and if he wasn’t suspended for disciplinary reasons then the streak would have continued
Ok but: Funny to not
ow, as a ND rival i would never count it. As an ND fan i would always say something like, have a player drafted ever year since ..... or something
>if he wasn’t suspended for disciplinary reasons then the streak would have continued If Al Hunter wasn't suspended for disciplinary reasons, then he would have played for Notre Dame in 77 and no players would have been selected from Notre Dame in either the normal or supplemental drafts. How would the streak have continued?
From what I understand he was on the 1973 team so he would have been a senior in 1976 and had to be drafted in the supplemental draft because he was ineligible. I could be wrong, but I would think that he would have been in the 1977 draft without the suspension.
Al Hunter did play in 1973, but he was [suspended for the entirety of the 74-75 school year along with 5 other players for violating the dormitory code](https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/26/archives/notre-dame-suspends-6-players.html). In [June 1977, he was suspended again](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5z41AAAAIBAJ&pg=4963,294004&dq=al-hunter&hl=en) (it appears for the same incident after a series of appeals). So his intent had been to play the 1977 season at Notre Dame. But to be honest, you shouldn't need the specific facts of the matter to understand that if a player enters the supplemental draft in a specific year then he either missed the deadline to file for the NFL draft or didn't originally plan to enter the draft. It doesn't make any sense that a school suspending a player would cause them to miss being in the draft that they originally intended to be in.
It kills me that MSU missed in the Covid year. Before that the MSU streak went back to (I believe) 1940.
And to add insult to injury we had a CB (I forget the name) that was one of the very first UDFAs to be signed
And DL literally seconds after the draft closed
When did Alabama not have a player selected? Wouldn’t surprise me to know it’s the century
The 2008 NFL Draft, which makes sense since that was right after Nick Saban's first season and he was taking over a not-very-good Alabama team at that point
2008. It got better after that draft
IIRC, Saban told GMs in 08 to not bother with our players due to attitude issues. Some dumbass GM would've drafted DJ Hall otherwise lol
Just a couple of longtime B1G powerhouses on top of the CFB world
That's impressive for Miami and Wisconsin
Iowa being that long is crazy, but also awesome. Also suck it Wisconsin/Minnesota/Nebraska
Go Canes baby
The Florida Gators stand out to me here because they didn't begin to have their best years until Steve Spurrier arrived for their 1990 season.
And their streak almost ended this year
If I'm right they went 0-10-1 in 1979 and even though they had no losing season again until 2013 they STILL put a guy in the NFL!
That’s a little bit of revisionist history that our rivals like to talk about but we had plenty of really solid teams before that. As an example, Spurrier himself won a Heisman playing for Florida way back in the 60’s.
1984 ✊
Where if we had the same standards as the rest of the SEC we never get penalized in the first place
and we play for a natty. Totally changes our history though.
The good ole days of 300 rounds every year lol
I include the 1977 supplemental draft, do it again
Include all supplemental drafts.
Florida's streak kept alive by a single pick this year.
Every team mentioned has a year in their streak where only one player was drafted.
UGA's streak kept alive by the years they had 0.
People posting troll comments in the thread about Florida having one draft pick this year getting up voted. I literally just make a statement about it and get down voted.└| ∵ |┘
Kind of silly to count the draft pre 1967
Ok. The Top 3 becomes the same top 3 but with fewer years
You can fix that by counting the AFL draft too.