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00:00They help put football on the map.
00:03They just have one wave of NFL talent after another in recruiting classes.
00:07Come on, John, run!
00:09You are looking live at the top ten football factories of all time.
00:16Hey, come on!
00:20Yeah.
00:21How do you define a football factory?
00:24Who churns out football players for the NFL?
00:26Which college program has produced the best NFL players over the entire history of the league?
00:34Ten is big in this top ten deal, huh?
00:36Way to go, man!
00:37When you put those guys in the SEC, we smack them around.
00:41I hate to do a former Buckeye like that.
00:42It's the only school that can go by a letter.
00:45From Red Grange to Tom Brady.
00:46Who's number one?
00:47Who's number one?
00:48Who's number one?
00:49Did your school make the list?
00:50Barely made the list.
00:51Did people vote on that?
00:53Oh, no.
00:53Who do you think it is?
00:55Letting the dates begin.
00:58The number ten football factory of all time, Tennessee.
01:03Tennessee.
01:04Nate Manning, Reggie White.
01:05Not Tennessee.
01:07Maybe because I beat Tennessee all four years.
01:11I kind of look at that program and everywhere I talk, doesn't matter what the position is,
01:16they've got elite speed out wide.
01:18They've got that man coverage and call pickings just flew away.
01:21They've had great quarterbacks.
01:23Score!
01:23Woo!
01:24They've had running backs.
01:25Travis Henry.
01:26Jamal Lewis.
01:27That's the Steve Rower there.
01:29The defensive tackle.
01:30Reggie!
01:31Hello, Reggie!
01:32They've always developed NFL talent.
01:38Barely made the list at ten.
01:39Are you kidding me?
01:40I could go on all day about players.
01:42Whitten at the five.
01:44Walk it on in, big man.
01:45The names that make it so terrific.
01:48One name in particular.
01:51You think Tennessee, you think Peyton Manning.
01:53Peyton Manning?
01:54You think mostly of Peyton Manning.
01:55Peyton, who's your favorite football player then?
01:57LeBair.
01:59Peyton Manning was a great college quarterback.
02:01He's become one of the best NFL quarterbacks of all time.
02:03That's three touchdown passes for Manning.
02:06Despite being a great NFL player, all anyone in Knoxville cares about is that he beat Alabama.
02:12We finally beat him my sophomore year.
02:13We're in Birmingham.
02:14You know, you've got this section of traveling fans who travel with you.
02:17The whole team runs over there.
02:18The seniors are crying.
02:20That's the big rival.
02:21You don't give a damn about the whole state out there.
02:24We're from Tennessee.
02:28Going to school in Knoxville, which is Tennessee football from Memphis up to Johnson City all year long.
02:35You ever go to a game in Neyland Stadium, it is great.
02:38106,000, 107,000 people singing Rocky Top.
02:41Tennessee football had just great tradition and history.
02:46All the legendary coaches and players going back from George Caffico to, of course, General Neyland and Johnny Majors.
02:54And that was a big deal for me.
02:56I haven't heard of it the first time.
02:58I think people forget he had four or five wide receivers that became NFL wide receivers that he was working with.
03:04Here was Price, 10-5, and in for the touchdown.
03:08Tennessee's always had a lot of good players, fast receivers.
03:10They were the ones that brought guys like Stanley Morgan, the Stanley Steamer.
03:14Touchdown, Stanley Morgan!
03:16Willie Gall.
03:17First round, Willie Gall from Tennessee.
03:20They brought the speedy track star wide receivers into the national football league.
03:27It's funny because when I think Tennessee, everybody talks big man.
03:31People talk wide receivers.
03:33I'm amazed at how many defensive tackles they've turned out over the years.
03:39And their defensive linemen, you know, obviously Reggie White is kind of the poster child for the University of Tennessee, and justifiably so.
03:46But they've had Haynesworth.
03:47He's in!
03:49Johnny Talbot, Haynesworth!
03:51John Henderson.
03:52John Henderson wrapped him up in the 43.
03:55Doug Atkins, big defensive end who was just so dominant in both college and the pros.
04:00Doug Atkins was like a storm rolling over a Kansas farmhouse.
04:04He came from all directions.
04:06And all there was to do was to tie down what you could and hope he didn't take the roof.
04:14Tennessee got our number 10 ranking because of its 37 pro bowlers and two Hall of Famers, both who happen to be defensive linemen.
04:24The Tennessee guy that leaps out to me is John Henderson because of the way that he gets slapped around before a game.
04:31Let's roll, let's roll!
04:33Stop this, baby!
04:34I don't know if he'd learned that at Tennessee, but for a long time he needed to be slapped across the face.
04:40Prior to playing a game, he needed to taste some blood in his mouth, and I respect that.
04:46So that ain't even good enough!
04:48Come on, Joe!
04:51I don't know if that was a pass-fail course at Tennessee, but I respect John Henderson for that fact, and then of course the institution as a whole because of it.
05:01Up next...
05:03They said the University of Miami, I didn't say Ohio!
05:05Factories 8 and 9 cause controversy.
05:08I wouldn't put them up there with these other football schools.
05:11I vigorously disagree with that.
05:13I got a Syracuse in here.
05:14Historically, black colleges have produced some of the NFL's greatest players.
05:19I came, I saw, and I did come.
05:21Up until the 1870s, 677, Gremlin had more professional ballplayers come out in the end of the school.
05:28During my time, we had so many great ballplayers come out of Jackson State.
05:31Hold it pace!
05:32He comes!
05:33Flash the football league!
05:34Reading rushers!
05:35Mississippi Valley.
05:37He goes down to Jerry Wright!
05:38What a catch!
05:39Gets away!
05:40There's only one guy in the field that's going to make that catch.
05:42However, it's another group that often goes unnoticed that got our attention.
05:47Marshall.
05:48The number 9 football factory of all time.
05:51The Mac.
05:52Oh, the Mac.
05:53What we're doing now is we're using entire conferences as one unit.
05:57You know why I don't look at it as a football factory?
06:00Because if you put a Mac conference game on primetime Saturday night through Musburger,
06:05I don't think people would watch.
06:06It would depend on how well the two teams had performed leading up to the game.
06:13We're sort of changing the rules here in the middle of this top 10, which is fine.
06:17I mean, if the Democrats can do it for their own election process, that's fine for this program.
06:22I know that people don't realize how many great names have come out of the Mac conference.
06:28A conference that has some very good football players who every now and then are going to sneak ahead
06:55and perform better than those, quote, big football factory schools.
06:59Antonio Gates may be the greatest tight end in the history of this game.
07:04You think Mac conference, you think, well, who's the quarterback in the Mac conference now?
07:08With the 8th selection, Byron Leftwich, quarterback for Marshall.
07:12Quarterback, Chad Pennington from Marshall University.
07:16With the 11th pick, Ben Roethlisberger.
07:18Quarterback, University of Miami, Ohio.
07:21Ben Roethlisberger wins a Super Bowl in his second season.
07:23Ben Roethlisberger, the youngest quarterback ever to win a Super Bowl championship.
07:28Once Roethlisberger hit big, people realize they play a pretty good brand of football in the Mac.
07:33Play action, good.
07:34Down over the middle, touchdown.
07:36Hey, Miller.
07:36The coaches who came out of Miami put the Mac on the map.
07:42The cradle of coaches at Miami of Ohio with the Weeview Banks and the Paul Browns,
07:46and we go right down the line.
07:48That's Coach Paul Brown at the head of the class.
07:50Play action, first play.
07:51I'll tell you, it's a mess.
07:56I love the inclusion of the Mac because I like guys with chips on their shoulders,
08:00and basically that's what you get.
08:01You get a lot of guys that slip through the cracks.
08:03Right time, 10-5 to a green bay lead.
08:08The Big Ten doesn't recruit for some reason.
08:10It might be academics.
08:12Another touchdown, Brady Amos.
08:15It might be the height-weight-speed ratio doesn't work out.
08:18A crowd!
08:20Josh Pribbs!
08:21Now, people want to talk about Antonio Gates.
08:23He's a freak of nature, but it wasn't like people coming out of high school saying,
08:26come to Ohio State and play tight end for us.
08:29He was a basketball player.
08:30Gates, he's got it at the 5-4-3-2-1!
08:33At the end of the day, you end up getting a lot of really good football players,
08:36and what I like is they get an attitude.
08:38They have a chip on their shoulder, and they want to prove those Big Ten schools that they
08:41were wrong.
08:42Kent State sent three players to the 2008 Pro Bowl, third most among all college programs.
08:49Pro Bowl 08.
08:51I'm there.
08:51You're there.
08:53Huh.
08:55These players are savvy enough to know, hey, I want to go where I can start, and I can go
09:00to the NFL.
09:01He no longer has to go to those 15 or 20 schools.
09:04Why be a backup at Alabama when you can be a starter at Marshall?
09:10My respect for the MAAC Conference is tremendous, but there's no way they should be on the list
09:15of top ten football factories.
09:16It just does not equate.
09:18I thought Jack Lambert's going to come out from the side and tackle me.
09:21That'll cool your ass off.
09:23The number eight football factory of all time, Syracuse.
09:28I think we deserve to be a little higher.
09:30You know, I guess I'm biased, so to speak.
09:32If you wanted to attend Syracuse University in upstate New York in the brutal part of
09:36the winter, you really wanted to play football.
09:38I don't think Syracuse has been dominant since the 60s.
09:42Hugh Brown is going to go all the way for a touchdown.
09:45And I wouldn't put them up there with these other football schools.
09:48My admiration for Syracuse is high.
09:51Frankly, though, I'm surprised that they would be on the list at number eight.
09:54You don't think of them as a football factory until you start looking at the individual
09:57players.
09:57Running back at Syracuse, we spawn these great nags.
10:03You think of Jim Brown.
10:04Jim Brown is in for the touchdown!
10:07You think of Floyd Little.
10:08Oh, how sweet it is!
10:10You think of Larry Zonker.
10:11Holds is way into the middle, gets to the 25.
10:13Ernie Davis.
10:14And this time, Celine, Drew Davis, and it is good.
10:18Those are probably the big four.
10:20These are some power runners with probably a lot more speed than they're given credit for.
10:24I think the thing that Syracuse can really hang its hat on is that that's the school that
10:33produced, in my opinion, the greatest player in NFL history in Jim Brown.
10:38Jimmy Brown breaks loose for a spectacular game.
10:40Jim Brown, obviously, you can make an argument, the greatest football player of all time.
10:44He looked like he was bigger than everybody else.
10:46He would just have a little subtle move and a linebacker of somebody.
10:52The highest honor at our number eight football factory.
10:55Take a Syracuse, think number 44.
10:57Who wore number 44?
10:59What an honor it was.
11:00It's so ingrained in the culture of that school.
11:02It's the last two digits of the zip code.
11:04It's the first two digits of the telephone exchange.
11:08It is the tradition of the university.
11:09It was worn by Jim Brown.
11:11It was worn by Ernie Davis.
11:13For years on the football team, it was passed down as a badge of honor to whoever they thought
11:18would be the next great running back.
11:20Syracuse may have had the greatest tight end as well.
11:23John Mackey.
11:23There's a reason they named that award after him, by the way.
11:25John Mackey award.
11:27He was the best tight end in business.
11:28I got to thank Vince Walshwalder, my head coach at Syracuse University, and the coaching staff
11:33first for giving me number 88 instead of number 44.
11:37Number 44 was a running back.
11:39They told me I was a tight end.
11:40I thanked them for that.
11:41This year, Syracuse will add their sixth member to the Hall of Fame in Art Monk.
11:46Touchdown!
11:47Yeah!
11:47Coming to the Redskins!
11:48The Hall of Fame move!
11:50This will give the Orangemen more players in the Hall of Fame than Texas, Florida State,
11:55and Oklahoma combined.
11:57This guy, long overdue for the Hall of Fame, showed at SU what kind of a great NFL player
12:03he would be.
12:04I think in recent years, Syracuse has just been one of those teams that you wonder why
12:10they can't do a lot better than they have recently.
12:12They've had some pretty good football players.
12:13Let me start talking about McNabb.
12:15McNabb.
12:16For McNabb coming into the big house in Michigan and scoring with one shoe on.
12:21That is a play that only McNabb can make.
12:23He's become one of the most underrated drop back passers in the NFL.
12:26That's what made him the quarterback that could lead his team to four straight NFC championships.
12:31The Eagles are headed to the NFC championship game.
12:35When you have a talented wide receiver like Marvin Harrison, it makes your job a lot easier.
12:39He's kind of one of the guys that put me into the mold of the quarterback that I wanted
12:43to be.
12:43He got it!
12:44Touchdown, Marvin Harrison!
12:47Right from me, he had a very good college career.
12:49But when he came into the NFL, again, like so many Syracuse guys, people thought, well,
12:53he's a little undersized.
12:54He's going to get eaten up by those big offensive tackles.
12:58And sure enough, he just used his speed to get around them.
13:01He's going to get around them.
13:23Made by Orange Man.
13:25How the mo-
13:26What a catch he made.
13:28What a remarkable catch.
13:29Probably will go down in history as the best catch in a Super Bowl game.
13:33By the way, Tyree's coach, Tom Coughlin, Syracuse class of 68.
13:38Up next, one legend still coaches.
13:40They've got a great coach who can be carbon dated.
13:43And another's impact is still felt today.
13:45You can't think of them without going back to the heydays of the 50s and 60s.
13:50Welcome to the team. Here's your signing bar.
13:52Tyree's all-time roster reads like a Hall of Fame program.
13:55Red Brains, George Ellis, Ray Nitschke, and Dick Buckus.
14:00Look out, look out, go on.
14:01Even with these big names, we still found better programs in the Big Ten.
14:07The number seven football factory of all time and steak.
14:12Okay.
14:13They've got a great coach who can be carbon dated.
14:16Head coach Joe Paterno has been churning out NFL talent for over 40 years.
14:22Um, yeah, then Joe Paterno disgraced himself after this came out.
14:28This did not age well.
14:29Years.
14:30Come on, take off now. Let's go.
14:32The NFL talent has flowed out of the Happy Valley since Joe has been there.
14:36The consistency at that place is almost numbing.
14:40Holy cow!
14:41Joe Paterno is one of the most amazing people I've ever met.
14:44I've never seen a guy that age with that kind of energy, ever.
14:47You talk about that now!
14:48Joe Paterno is the most important figure in college football.
14:53That's a man, though. I love Joe Paterno.
14:55What changes about Penn State is as long as Joe Paterno's there and they keep cranking out these linebackers.
15:03You think Penn State, you automatically start thinking about linebackers.
15:07Linebacker U.
15:09You can't get a moniker without earning it.
15:12You can take a look at the history of linebackers that were there before myself and after when I played.
15:19And you certainly can look at these names and say, oh, man, these guys were pretty good football players.
15:24What a great day.
15:25Bottle and Shane Conlin.
15:27Wherever he goes, Conlin's right with him.
15:29Arrington.
15:29Jack Hamm just jumped off the practice field to me.
15:36Here's the pass.
15:37Here's the interception.
15:38Jack Hamm, he's to the 15th.
15:39You could make the argument that Jack Hamm was one of the great outside linebackers in the history of the national football.
15:46It's beyond words for me to tell you the kind of pride I have when I present Jack Hamm for induction into the Hall of Fame.
15:56Paul Puzlozny came out last year.
15:58This acknowledges the Buckus Award winner.
16:00And this year, Dan Conner coming out.
16:02We can go on and on.
16:04Kids.
16:16State University, Curtis Enos.
16:19Absolute no-nos in the NFL draft in the 9.
16:28Draft and got hurt and didn't pan out.
16:30It's only lately in the last 10, 12 years.
16:34Guys like that have been a disaster.
16:36Obviously, prior to that, with Rydell, who was great.
16:39What a great play.
16:41Franco, who was great.
16:42That's right out of the air.
16:44The ball is pulled in by Franco Harris.
16:46Lenny Moore, before my time, great.
16:48Warner was a great pick.
16:51John Capoletti was the best running back at Penn State.
16:55Come on, John, run.
16:56In his four years of college, won the Heisman Trophy, did everything.
16:59What was the last one you hit to Capoletti?
17:00Was that the glove three?
17:01Yeah, it was good.
17:03Johnson with Kansas City.
17:04I mean, he's a wonderful football player.
17:06And the man beast, the Doberman that is Larry Johnson, continues to churn.
17:11This is the kind of weather I like.
17:13Nice, wet, muddy, nasty.
17:15They're going to give me my Penn State zone.
17:17If you look at the big picture, which is what this is supposed to be all about,
17:21I think the Penn State running backs are pretty darn good.
17:24Yeah, they are.
17:24Where do you start?
17:25Mike Munchak, Hall of Fame lineman, great coach.
17:28You go through the years with Joe Paterno teams, and he just turned out one in at the player after another.
17:39Tomahaw Lee destroyed Kelly Holcomb.
17:42Touchdown, Seahawks!
17:43Oh, yeah!
17:44Kicked by Robbie Gold.
17:46And over in.
17:47To the upright.
17:48And it's good!
17:51One Penn State and another.
17:52Game time.
17:53Penn State is ranked seventh on our list of football factories for their five Hall of Famers,
17:5834 Pro Bowlers, and years of stockpiling the NFL with talent.
18:02Obviously, when you talk about the Nittany Lions, you always start with Joe Paterno.
18:05And Joe Paterno has been there for a long time.
18:08I believe the whole university will be named after Joe Paterno before he leaves.
18:14The number six football factory of all time, Alabama.
18:20Though Alabama has several current Pro Bowlers.
18:23Touchdown, Seahawks!
18:24And number 37, the record!
18:26The number six football factory made their name with their past.
18:30Well, it's impossible to think of Alabama without thinking of the Bear with the Houndstooth hat.
18:35Think of Bear Bryant.
18:36Take captain, come out of the air, throw!
18:38Think about Joe Namath.
18:39Namath looking for the end zone, throwing touchdown to Maynard!
18:42Even though those names are so far in Alabama's past, they still resonate in Alabama's present.
18:49You know, if one of those teams that I'd say, sure, I don't even care if they're ranked ahead of Penn State
18:54because Bear Bryant did a hell of a job there.
18:56The legendary story with Bear Bryant is when he really wanted to recruit,
19:01they'd bring him into the office.
19:02Coach Bryant, this is such, such.
19:04And he just looked at it and said, boy, you want to be a winner?
19:08That's a little old thing.
19:09Brian is a legend.
19:10That's a little old thing.
19:11He's more than a man who teaches them football.
19:14Bear had a dynasty.
19:17Bear had a kingdom.
19:18They have not been able to, nor do I think anybody can in this day and age run the same kind of program he ran.
19:25Always a very, very good football area.
19:30Hudson went to Alabama.
19:32Hudson streaks down the field to receive it.
19:34Here it comes.
19:35Look out, Bella.
19:36Just some classic, classic players that have come from that school.
19:40Fires.
19:41It's an Aussie.
19:42Touchdown Brown!
19:44Aussie Newsom with a marvelous catch.
19:46One of the first very big decisions that Vince Lombardi ever made was putting Bart Starr in charge of that offense.
19:53Starr looks, has time, throws in the end zone, breaks test.
19:57If there was a man playing on offense that said he wasn't worried about Derrick Thomas, yeah, I'd have to call him a liar.
20:03Another sack for Derrick Thomas!
20:05Okay, in the hell of the day, we got this naked quarterback.
20:08He's from Alabama.
20:09He's under the gun.
20:10He's gone.
20:12He's gone.
20:12He's gone.
20:13In Alabama, the Bear Bryant, you had those good quarterbacks that came out of there.
20:17Every quarterback is going to tell you, I can't do what I do without an offensive line.
20:22Number 57, Dwight Stevenson.
20:24And number 73, John Hanna became two of the most dominant linemen in NFL history.
20:31But you also have to put Alabama on this list for Farris Gump.
20:33I mean, that guy could run.
20:35Our number six football factory has cranked out six Hall of Famers.
20:39At the University of Alabama, where I was lucky enough to go to school, we won the championship.
20:45And Alabama has more quarterbacks that have won the Super Bowl than any other college program.
20:50The game is over.
20:51The New York Jets are the world champions.
20:56I think it's been a long time since Alabama's been a football factory.
20:59But if there is one thing that is non-political, it's being for Bart Starr tonight.
21:04The memory of Alabama is growing fainter.
21:06But they were the preeminent program for 20 years under Bear Bryant.
21:11When you talk to everybody that ever played at Alabama, they'll tell you this is the mystique of the home of the champions.
21:17No matter what happens to the tie, tie to be low sometimes, but you know what's going to happen next.
21:21It's going to be a high.
21:24Stay tuned for a Motor City Meltdown.
21:27If I'm a Michigan man, I'm upset about this ball.
21:30No way!
21:32Right now, for this particular issue, it's on.
21:35Ha!
21:36Tonight, NFL Total Act Football Factory of all time.
21:41Michigan.
21:42Michigan is one of the great brands in collegiate athletics.
21:4665,000 at Michigan Stadium and others.
21:49That block M is instantaneous recognition.
21:53You get goosebumps just from the atmosphere.
21:56When you say big house, you don't have to elaborate.
21:59You see those marvelous winged helmets, yellow and blue.
22:04You don't go, uh, what team is that?
22:07You go, Michigan.
22:09From the fight song, hail to the victors' valiant.
22:13Hail to the conquering heroes.
22:15To the uniforms.
22:17Michigan embodies what is great about college football.
22:20Unloading D. Quaylin Edwards left side.
22:23He's got it.
22:24Touchdown, Michigan!
22:25I would watch the Michigan-Ohio State game and pray for Michigan touchdowns.
22:29Justin Howell is going all the way!
22:31Just to hear the Michigan fight song.
22:33Touchdown!
22:34For an Ohio State grad to hear that over and over again...
22:36Touchdown, Michigan!
22:38...it's irritating to the point of disgusting.
22:40Ha!
22:41Ha!
22:43There has never been any great drop-off in the caliber of football.
22:46I used to get a kick out of Bo because when Michigan would lose a game and I'd show up,
22:50and I'd say, Bo, what went wrong?
22:52And he would always say, we didn't run the ball enough.
22:55We've got to run the football.
22:57I mean, that was his answer to everything.
22:59Michigan epitomized the lunch pail football mentality, which certainly translates to the next level.
23:05When I think of Michigan, I think alignment.
23:08Big men have become synonymous with the big house.
23:10You look in the Hall of Fame, and Dan Deardorff is a former Michigan guy.
23:17That is your prototypical offensive lineman to me, is a Michigan man.
23:21Woo!
23:22You think of the Midwest, you think of Cole, and you think of linemen controlling the game.
23:30You know, it was a long time before they ever had a quarterback.
23:34Now, you've got one after the other.
23:36Jim Harbaugh technically could be the first guy that you can go to in this lineage.
23:40He's going to drop, fires in the left corner of the end zone.
23:42Touchdown!
23:43Elvis Gerback.
23:44Gerback.
23:44Spiring for the end zone.
23:45He's going to let's end it!
23:46Ron Greasy.
23:47Greasy winds up, throws.
23:48Back in the end zone.
23:50Touchdown!
23:50But I don't know how many engines jump out, and you go, yeah!
23:54Tom Brady.
23:55Tom Brady.
23:56The greatest quarterback in the history of the NFL is what Tom Brady could be.
24:01I agree.
24:01I'm so appreciative of that.
24:03You can even make an argument that he already is in terms of the championships.
24:08He's going to the grandly world!
24:09In terms of the records that he holds.
24:11There's the record for Brady!
24:12That school made the transition.
24:14Carl Ward gets away on a 43-yard touchdown run.
24:17It recognized that the forward pass...
24:20Touchdown, Michigan!
24:22...was the way football was going to be played.
24:26Our number five factory has produced seven Hall of Famers and 36 Pro Bowlers.
24:32Anthony Carter was a heck of a wide receiver.
24:34Anthony Carter with a...
24:35Just recently...
24:38We're going to the Super Bowl!
24:41We're getting ready, we're getting ready, too.
24:43Charles, what they do is they kind of breed tougher.
24:46We are the leaders and best in every facet of life.
24:51The Vice President of the United States, Congressman Gerald Ford of Michigan.
24:55They're going to play hard.
25:00They're going to stay hard.
25:01The seniors never prosper!
25:03To me, it's Michigan and a bunch of one of these.
25:06We should be number one on this list.
25:07The fact that we're just number five is an outrage.
25:10The number four football factory of all time.
25:14The Ohio State University.
25:15You know, I always must use the for the Ohio State University because it makes them sound
25:22as arrogant as they really are.
25:25Mike Vrabel, the Ohio State University.
25:27The Ohio State University.
25:29You go into that first orientation, they have big black letters, T-H-E.
25:35I wish they would finally win the national championship.
25:39The Gators have put this one on ice.
25:42I think they did it after this game.
25:46But that's got to gall Michigan people.
25:48This is personal.
25:49This is personal.
25:50This is not business.
25:51This is personal.
25:52Ohio State!
25:52Ohio State!
25:53Ohio State certainly is number one in the Big Ten.
25:57And 10 down the sideline!
25:59When you look at Ohio State, it's a lot like Michigan.
26:02This powerful state school that has just remained dominant for so many years.
26:07They had one team in the late 90s that probably was the best team in the state of Ohio, including
26:12the Browns and the Bengals.
26:13Then Orlando Pace, here.
26:15That's another big bad team.
26:17Were you drafting Ohio State Buckeyes?
26:19St. Louis Rams select Orlando Pace.
26:22You're going to get a player that is very knowledgeable about the game.
26:25Go outside up right here!
26:27Go outside right here!
26:28Very passionate about it.
26:30One thing we didn't do last week, guys.
26:32Can you please 60 minutes?
26:34And it's really sound fundamentally.
26:38It's interesting, isn't it, how many wide receivers they've turned out.
26:43Warfield's got a 25, 40, 45, 50.
26:46Touchdown, Chris Carter.
26:48Joey got away.
26:49Touchdown.
26:49I hate to do a former Buckeye like that.
26:51Touchdown, Terry Glenn.
26:53Stodd, he's in.
26:54Touchdown, San Antonio Holmes.
26:56He can play as long as me.
26:58I mean, you cannot pick really one position that they've excelled at because they've excelled
27:03at so many.
27:04Mike Bramble, the all-time sack leader for Ohio State.
27:07Bill Wallace with big speed, too.
27:09And 215 pounds of sheer defensive power.
27:12The number four football factory has produced 53.
27:1817.
27:19It has a little linebacker game to it.
27:2110, 5, touchdown, Chris Spielman.
27:24A lot of great defensive backs.
27:26Football.
27:26Charles Springs has it.
27:28When I close my eyes, I see Heisman Trophy winners lined up and the legacy of great running
27:34backs.
27:34Hey, George, down to the left sideline.
27:36They won't catch them.
27:37They just can't produce any quarterbacks.
27:40I don't understand why the Ohio State University could be ranked above Michigan.
27:45The conversation begins and ends with the two words Tom Brady.
27:49Over.
27:49There's the record for Brady.
27:51Who does Ohio State have?
27:53Herb Street.
27:53And I love Herb Street.
27:54Herb Street knows I love you.
27:55You know I love you, but right now, it's on.
27:59Arch Schleister.
28:00Quarterback Arch Schleister, Ohio State.
28:02I imagine that he won't be sitting for this because NFL Films couldn't get a pass into
28:07whatever prison he's sitting in.
28:09Where are we going to go?
28:11What other quarterback?
28:12Kent Graham.
28:13Play action.
28:14Fake by Graham.
28:15He sacked.
28:15He fumbles.
28:16They produced guys who have done pretty well.
28:18I mean, Mike Tomczak is a pretty good player.
28:21Sorry, Rich, but our number four football factory has churned out more talent at
28:25every other position.
28:26Kent is having a day.
28:28From Ohio State University, Chris Carter.
28:31There's an image associated with Ohio State of Excellence that has been carried on into
28:37the NFL.
28:38They'll be the best.
28:40The top three factories and more controversy on the way.
28:44I think you're overrating him.
28:49Football's most storied programs.
28:51Boys and Blue!
28:52Just missed the cut.
28:54Michigan State.
28:54No, I'm just kidding.
28:55I can't say that.
28:55I was a straight face.
28:56Hook them horns.
29:01Unbelievable.
29:02I don't see Texas.
29:03McDonald thought he saw better with no face mask.
29:06And we thought the list looked better.
29:09Without the sooners.
29:10I don't see Oklahoma.
29:12I am ergasted.
29:13And UCLA's best didn't measure up.
29:16Come on now, you gotta show me some love now.
29:18I don't see a UCLA.
29:20But even the most storied program of all couldn't top our list.
29:23The number three football factory of all time, Notre Dame.
29:32In 1887, Notre Dame was introduced to the game of football.
29:37And so began the most spirited romance in the history of sport.
29:42If this were a spirit pole, Notre Dame would be number one.
29:46The spirit of Notre Dame is, I think, if it could be bottled, it could probably light up.
29:49The greatest football factory is the University of Notre Dame.
30:03Go, man, quickly, quickly, quickly.
30:06For a long time, there was sort of an entitlement.
30:08We will get star players to come play for us.
30:11Our number three factory has produced more pro bowlers than any other college program.
30:16And their list of ten Hall of Famers keeps on growing.
30:231,000 career catches for the amazing Tim Brown.
30:27Complete the ball down to 35.
30:29He's got four men on his back.
30:30He gets down to 17.
30:31Los Angeles Rams select Jerome Bettis.
30:34Bettis, the rookie, Notre Dame, like lightning.
30:38Yeah, tradition at that place.
30:43The game of the year, the Rose Bowl team and mighty Notre Dame.
30:47Notre Dame is really the brand name of college football.
30:51They will never join a conference because they are a conference.
30:54They are a schedule and a community unto themselves.
30:58I think it captures a little bit of the imagination of people that wanted to go there,
31:02have dreamt about it, have heard about it, have read about it.
31:04You feel you're at a very special part of football history.
31:09Don't forget that.
31:09We're going to get up on the run.
31:10We're going to go, go, go.
31:12But you're maybe even, like, touching the Vatican in some respect.
31:16We'll marry him.
31:16We'll marry him.
31:17We'll marry him.
31:18If you didn't cry during Rudy, you don't have any soul.
31:22You're not human.
31:25I hate Notre Dame to the point where I rent Rudy hoping he pulls a groin.
31:30He's a groin.
31:33No, you know, obviously you've got to give it to him.
31:35I mean, if I talk about Tom Brady being perhaps the greatest quarterback ever, you have Joe
31:39Montana.
31:40The end all and be all in many people's discussion for quarterbacks.
31:43And he went to Notre Dame.
31:45He's a golden domer.
31:46Just like Joe Feisman.
31:48Joe Feisman was great until he had a run with Heisman.
31:52Feisman loads it up.
31:54Live into the end zone.
31:56Touchdown!
31:56The Washington Redskins have an NFL championship.
31:59Where have all the Notre Dame players gone?
32:02It's been a long time since they won one for the Gipper.
32:05Win one for the Gipper.
32:06They didn't win too many for that Gipper last year, as I recall.
32:09We're talking about respect.
32:11We're talking about respect around the country.
32:13The challenge is Notre Dame kids have to graduate.
32:18Great academics will never sacrifice that.
32:21They haven't been producing the same number of guys, but they can never ever say Notre Dame's
32:27out of the picture.
32:28Notre Dame football prestige is at stake.
32:30The ghost of Newt Rock and he walks today.
32:33The tough part for them now is that Notre Dame mystique is still the same among kids growing
32:37up as it is among my set and older who understand what they've meant in the college
32:43football world.
32:45I will go officially on record as protesting our number three status.
32:49The bus's last stop is here in Detroit.
32:51Because they're put up on a pedestal in film and television and lore and books.
32:56I think you're overrating them, and that is definitely a bitter man talking.
33:01Stay tuned.
33:02More bitterness still to come.
33:04Kiss the part, baby!
33:06You got only one glaring mistake.
33:10Chine State failed to make our list.
33:12Man, they got to show us some love.
33:14The Gators produced the NFL's all-time leading rusher.
33:17Emmett Smith has eclipsed Walter Payton.
33:20The Knowles delivered primetime.
33:22Kiss the part, baby!
33:24No Florida State.
33:25But the vote for the number one football factory in Florida was unanimous.
33:31Tye the number two football factory of all time to the U.
33:35It's the only school that can go by a letter.
33:39Always has been.
33:40Always will be.
33:41All about the U.
33:45For a 15, 20-year period, they just churned them out.
33:50Miami blew past Notre Dame for the number two spot with an unprecedented run of talent.
33:55Touchdown!
33:56Trenching Wayne!
33:57You look back at some of those Miami teams.
33:59If you just graduated everyone and turned them into an NFL team, how good would they be?
34:05And how high would the salary cap have to be?
34:08You can't hurt this!
34:09I'm a machine, jerk!
34:10The talent is just freakish.
34:13Jeremy Shockey and Kellan Winslow Jr. on the same team.
34:16Touchdown, Wetslow!
34:17Frank Gore and Willis McGahee and all those other great running backs.
34:21Flip Portis.
34:22Touchdown, Redskins!
34:2310, 10, 4, quarter!
34:25Two hurricanes on the field!
34:27From 01 to 04, we had probably the best run in the history of college football.
34:3119 first-rounders in four years.
34:33I don't think we'll ever see that again.
34:35Yeah, that's disgusting.
34:37Monster in his hand.
34:39It's hard to believe that in 1979, our number two factory nearly dropped its football program.
34:45A couple things kicked in for them.
34:47Number one, Schnellenberger.
34:48Coach Howard Schnellenberger's arrival to the University of Miami
34:51Miami was a godsend for me.
34:53Remember what he called it?
34:55The state of Miami.
34:56Those Miami kids who could flat out run.
34:58Who do you think it is?
35:00Miami kids who were fearless and would strike you on every play.
35:04And they locked it down and the talent started to flow.
35:07It doesn't date as far back as it does for no today,
35:10but I think when you're talking about them back now and then you're-
35:13That's what makes the U of Miami so special.
35:19All their damage was done,
35:22most of their damage was done in 25 years.
35:25Anybody can do this, put this person there in the NFL, produce this guy,
35:33if you've had 100 years to do it and you've had funding and prestige and people want to go there.
35:39They built that in 25 years.
35:42Recent years, I don't think there's one that's really much better.
35:47Hurricane number one, baby.
35:48Defensive tackle, University of Miami, Warren Sapp.
35:52Ray Lewis, linebacker, University of Miami.
35:55Absolutely not.
35:57They should not be ranked ahead in Notre Dame because their history is 25 years.
36:00Not so fast, Charles.
36:02The match store, Ted Hendricks, Jim Otto, and Otis Anderson are all hurricane products.
36:07There it goes, Otis Anderson, he's got to touch it.
36:09Otis Anderson, running back, Miami to Florida.
36:13Huh.
36:14What'd I do?
36:15Make plays.
36:16That's what make plays, baby.
36:17When you think of Miami, you just think of speed.
36:20Devin Hester, you are ridiculous.
36:23Whether it's a running back.
36:24Score, he's gone.
36:25Whether it's a wide receiver.
36:27I break down, it's a clock, touchdown.
36:29Whether it's a defensive player.
36:30They just have fast players.
36:32Each ball roll does it again.
36:34Each position seems like it has a guy from Miami.
36:37You know who's the best back in the league, dude.
36:39Best safety in the NFL, man, right here.
36:41For a while there, if you played quarterback for the University of Miami, you had a shot
36:45to make the NFL just on that fact alone.
36:47Bernie Kosar.
36:48Unbelievable throw by Kosar.
36:50Jim Kelly.
36:51Yeah, baby.
36:52Monday Night Football is where you got to be.
36:53Joe Paterno tried to recruit Jim to come to Penn State to play linebacker.
36:58The fourth straight conference championship.
37:00NFL record 21st season in a row that Vinny Testaverde has a touchdown pass.
37:05Dick Michael Irvin.
37:12Now it's family.
37:13I think most of y'all know how I feel about the U.
37:16I love y'all, brother.
37:17That's why I came back, man.
37:18We have a brotherhood that nobody can ever take away from us.
37:22So proud of you.
37:23Do you understand that?
37:24Ohio State and Michigan, in the 70s, I thought they were the quintessential football factory,
37:29but I think Miami really surpassed even them.
37:32If you want a great lawyer, go to Harvard Law.
37:35If you want a great football player, you go to Miami because this is what they developed.
37:38It's all about the U, man.
37:40No, it's all about who beat the U on our list.
37:44They're like Miami when Miami was on a roll.
37:46They got a bunch of players.
37:47They are the 33rd team.
37:49All time, USC.
37:56Out of all the schools, it's going to be USC.
37:59Clearly number one.
38:00You're phenomenal.
38:01I don't think there's any doubt.
38:02USC is number one.
38:05When you have as many players as they have coming into the NFL at all positions,
38:09I don't think there's any way to really combat it.
38:11Hey, the Trojans.
38:12How about the Trojans?
38:13It's their success at the collegiate level, number one.
38:1511 national championships.
38:17We kept the teams off balance with the great passing of Pat Hayden.
38:20We did just a fantastic job in winning the national championship.
38:23Seven Heisman Trophy winners.
38:24Number three, Carson Palmer.
38:27151 All-Americans.
38:29I take great pride in the fact that USC has the most players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
38:35USC has produced 11 Hall of Famers, 59 Pro Bowlers, and many household names.
38:43Frank Gifford.
38:44Good blocking.
38:45O.J. Simpson.
38:47Number 32, O.J. Simpson.
38:50Marcus Allen.
38:51It's great to be a Raider.
38:54I have already had a call from Moscow.
38:59They think that Marcus Allen is a new secret weapon, and they insist that we dismantle it.
39:05Really, just look at our secondary.
39:06Dennis Smith.
39:07Dennis Smith.
39:09Ronnie Lott.
39:10Ronnie Lott.
39:12Joey Browner.
39:13Joey Browner.
39:13Jeff Fisher.
39:15Way to go, baby!
39:16I mean, three number one picks.
39:18You got a head coach in the NFL.
39:19The offense of Wyneman, Anthony Munoz, to Bruce Madden, to Don Mosvar, just to name a few.
39:24It was a special place and time, and it seems to be back to it.
39:29I think USC deserves to be ranked number one because of now.
39:35What Pete Carroll has done at the school right now is downright silly.
39:39It's unbelievable.
39:40It's a great day.
39:41It's a great day to be in trouble.
39:43It's a great day to be in trouble.
39:45To victory!
39:46Push diving for the pylon.
39:48Yeah, he's in!
39:49I've been watching USC football for 40 years, but this last seven years has been the best
39:53it's ever been.
39:54Someday we'll teach you guys how to stay at the top for an extended amount of time.
39:57Every position, you can find a USC star.
40:02Lofa Ketupu is making a career out of picking off the Philadelphia Eagles.
40:07He was a beast, too.
40:09The Cincinnati Bengals select Carson Palmer.
40:12Palmer pull up to his tight end.
40:14Pittsburgh Steelers select Troy Palavalo.
40:17Has time.
40:18Across the middle.
40:19It is picked off by Troy Palavalo.
40:21The USC kid kills the USC kid.
40:24You've played against great competition, not just on Saturday, but all week long.
40:32Oh, man, USC.
40:35If you're not a USC fan or alum, you hate SC.
40:40One day I think with UCLA, we're going to smash them.
40:42It's the daunting, intimidating fight song that you hear 5,000 times.
40:47It's the horse and Tommy Trojan and the beautiful cheerleaders and the gorgeous weather.
40:53Tackle from University of Southern California, Tony Buscelli.
40:57I'm going to go after the guy and try to destroy him.
40:59If he's trying to destroy me and embarrass me, it's only trying to embarrass him.
41:03It's the history.
41:04All those great players that have come before you and the important sense is placed on carrying on it.
41:09If there's something.
41:10Touchdown, he said.
41:12You go to USC and you're a Trojan for life.
41:15Our list is complete, but the debate continues.
41:19You've got only one glaring mistake.
41:21I think we deserve to be a little higher.
41:23That Florida State is not included.
41:25People could make arguments about Tennessee.
41:27Tennessee.
41:27Should Michigan and Ohio State be flipped?
41:29Two words, Tom Brady.
41:30How's USC number one?
41:32How can Notre Dame not be number one?
41:33How many USC quarterbacks have world championship rings?
41:36We can go on all day, but isn't it beautiful?
41:38None.
41:38I need to speak disabled.
41:40He's in charge.
41:45That's a great list and rich eyes and hilarious.
41:47Peace.
41:47Peace.
41:47Peace.
41:48Peace.
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