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Spagnola: Like Allen, Having To Start Somewhere To Find Your Anywhere
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...len-having-start-somewhere-find-your-anywhere
... So the point here is, over these next few weeks don’t get all hung up over the Cowboys’ first-round pick. And I know, we all do it, and especially this year since Dallas has the fourth pick in the draft, highest since selecting Russell Maryland with the first pick in 1991, though they didn’t earn such a high pick that year (they traded up) as they so ignominiously did this year.
Also this occurred to me: Of the 13 players the Cowboys have sent to Canton, Ohio, six of those Hall of Famers were drafted in Rounds 2 through 10: DB Mel Renfro, 2nd, 1964; WR Bob Hayes, 7th, 1964; QB Roger Staubach 10th, 1964; OT Rayfield Wright, 7th, 1967; DE Charles Haley (by San Francisco) 4th, 1986; and of course Allen. And I suppose we should put an asterisk next to Staubach, since the Heisman Trophy winner’s five-year commitment to the Navy made him a draft day after-thought for nearly every other team.
Still, not exactly an exact science this draft stuff.
Now, maybe a tad biased, though just possibly smarter than all the rest since they had been witnessing his mayhem for four seasons, Larry’s college coaches, including Rigsbee, along with former Sonoma State head coaches Tim Walsh and Frank Scalercio, they knew. They knew this guy pancaking his way through junior college and Division II was something special...
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...len-having-start-somewhere-find-your-anywhere
... So the point here is, over these next few weeks don’t get all hung up over the Cowboys’ first-round pick. And I know, we all do it, and especially this year since Dallas has the fourth pick in the draft, highest since selecting Russell Maryland with the first pick in 1991, though they didn’t earn such a high pick that year (they traded up) as they so ignominiously did this year.
Also this occurred to me: Of the 13 players the Cowboys have sent to Canton, Ohio, six of those Hall of Famers were drafted in Rounds 2 through 10: DB Mel Renfro, 2nd, 1964; WR Bob Hayes, 7th, 1964; QB Roger Staubach 10th, 1964; OT Rayfield Wright, 7th, 1967; DE Charles Haley (by San Francisco) 4th, 1986; and of course Allen. And I suppose we should put an asterisk next to Staubach, since the Heisman Trophy winner’s five-year commitment to the Navy made him a draft day after-thought for nearly every other team.
Still, not exactly an exact science this draft stuff.
Now, maybe a tad biased, though just possibly smarter than all the rest since they had been witnessing his mayhem for four seasons, Larry’s college coaches, including Rigsbee, along with former Sonoma State head coaches Tim Walsh and Frank Scalercio, they knew. They knew this guy pancaking his way through junior college and Division II was something special...
