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Who's your major Major Ogilvie?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by slappy4428, Aug 17, 2006.

  1. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    For reasons that may become its own thread later, his name came up a few days ago.
    While working in the Midwest, Major became part of the lexicon as the longest playing college athlete in history -- as a running back for Alabama from what seemed like 1974-91. Every school has one -- a guy or girl who just seemed to have endless eligibility. One who has been there an extremely long time is known, of course, as a major Major Ogilvie.
    Steve Carfino, iowa basketball player from 1985-2004 and the Haight brothers, who played for Iowa from 1969-2000 are examples.
    Who's yours?
     
  2. PopeDirkBenedict

    PopeDirkBenedict Active Member

    Darrell Bevell 1979-98.

    Kirk Penney 1987-2006

    Alondo Tucker 1999-2014
     
  3. Freelance Hack

    Freelance Hack Active Member

    Any member of the Diener family.
     
  4. joe king

    joe king Active Member

    When I was a kid, it seemed like Phil Ford was North Carolina's point guard for about 10 or 12 years.
     
  5. Jack_Kerouac

    Jack_Kerouac Member

    Jared Haase was at Cal for about fiive years and then transferred to Kansas and played another six or seven.
     
  6. Overrated

    Overrated Guest

    Are you positive he's not still playing?
     
  7. Bubba Fett

    Bubba Fett Active Member

    Syracuse has had a few white guards -- Roe, among them -- who were there at least a decade.
     
  8. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    Swear to God I think Dusty Bonner (quarterback, Kentucky and then maybe Georgia Southern) played college football for a dozen years.
     
  9. dreunc1542

    dreunc1542 Active Member

    Nick Horvath at Duke, swear he was their random white guy off the bench for 8 straight years.
     
  10. MU_was_not_so_hard

    MU_was_not_so_hard Active Member

    C.B. McGrath. Kansas walk-on.
     
  11. viamsp

    viamsp Member

    I believe Jeff Horner played against Alford before being coached by him.
     
  12. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Jess Settles, Iowa, 1993-2018.
     
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