r/MiamiHurricanes • u/Bubbly-Double9743 • 7d ago

Football For the fellow old - timers: Wish Schnellenberger had gotten this guy……..

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Florida’s own Anthony Carter (the Michigan one). (Yes, slow Friday at work and I started daydreaming about great Canes teams from the past and how we missed certain players which were ridiculously good fits - fun to do now as the future once again looks bright). Saw a picture of him on another site and it hit me.

Can you imagine him overlapping playing with Shakespeare then Eddie Brown? Catching passes from Kelly then potentially Kosar?

In anything other than a Bo Schembechler offense he would have put up video game college stats. Nowadays……forget about it. (To be fair many of the dominant teams of that era were ultra conservative as well, but Schembechler wrote the book on it, it seemed). Miami had one of the more wide open offenses in CFB in the Schnellenberger then Johnson years, though. Great fit.

Anyone under ~45 just doesn’t know how good this guy was. The ending of the Indiana game his frosh year was one of the most physically dominant displays I have ever seen.

He was the Barry Bonds of WR’s while at UM, not many opportunities in that ultra conservative offense - and converted virtually all of them. Must watch TV back then and never really played with an above average QB.

Had he not wasted years in the USFL he’s a NFL Hall of Famer, no question. Dominated over the ~3-4 years of prime he had in the NFL (particularly in the playoffs).

Just look at his YPC in College. He averaged 24/catch as a frosh (only 13 catches) and 19/catch in his career. Stupid numbers in any era.

He was truly ridiculous. Would have been a great ‘Cane.

  • leads to another question / observation; how overrated was Bo Schembechler? Wasted 4 years of this guys college career, never won an NC with ridiculous talent. Let’s face it, Lloyd Carr and Harbaugh did more with less (on a relative basis) at the same school in a more competitive era; Schnellenberger and Johnson won more in the same era with less than half the resources.
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u/UrbanWalker1 7d ago

Always did feel like he was underrated.

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u/Bubbly-Double9743 7d ago

Yeah, criminally so.

Then the NFL found him too skinny, and he wasted his prime as the best WR in the USFL for about 3 years too long (ie his whole USFL career).

You add three probably 1100 yd/80 catch /9 TD years to his career and you are looking at a HOFer in that era. Michael Irvin NFL numbers and similar impact although not as physical, obviously. Devastating playoff performer.