Former Alabama LB Derrick Thomas Snubbed by the Faculty Football Hall of Fame

Former SEC stars Danny Wuerffel and Kentucky defensive end Steve Meilinger can represent the SEC in the 2013 class of the College Football Hall of Fame, but one former SEC star was snubbed just as before. Al linebacker Derrick Jones. The former Crimson Tide star was left on the outside looking in all over again for the third straight year, and the reasoned explanations why still boggle your brain. As an associate of Tide, the NCAA record was set by Thomas with 52 job sacks from 1985-88, 27 of which came during his senior season. Consider that for just one second...he had 27 carriers in one season. That is 14 significantly more than South Carolina's Jadeveon Clowney had last season. He was named a first-team All-American in 1988, won the Butkus Award that is offered annually to the nation's top linebacker and was named the SEC's Defensive Player of the Year following his senior season.AAccording to AL.com, he was named to the SEC's All-Decade team of the 1980s. He was one of many most dominant linebackers in SEC background, and deserves to be enshrined therefore. Ryan Brown of WJOX 94.5 in Birmingham requires it a step further. In the event that you watched him play and have experienced his numbers, it'd be difficult to produce a quarrel against it. ESPN's Ivan Maisel reported a year ago that the Hall of Fame includes a rule against inducting participants from the same college in consecutive seasons, while that rule does not appear on the nominee list. That's not appropriate here. Al did not have a player inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2012. Also however, why have people on the ballot who are not permitted be inducted? Whether it's an insurance policy or perhaps a set-in-stone rule, it does not make any sense. Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier eventually made it in the Hall of Fame in the course of 2013 after years of public backlash. It appears that Thomas is the "new Tommie Frazier," and hopefully that suggests his household hears his name called in the not-too-distant future. After all, it is deserved by him.