Classic Tailback - Eric Dickerson SMU Highlights
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2025
- A compilation of some Eric Dickerson's college highlights. I do wish that the video was longer, but this video contains literally all of the SMU game footage I could find on youtube (not counting the Texas highlight that everyone has seen).
The games I used to take the clips from can be found on Stephen Barnett's youtube channel: / sbbarnett244896
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These video clips show Dickerson to be a Heismann level tailback, but they also show the absolute brilliance of QB Lance McIlhaney in running the option.
He is as underrated as any college QB ever.
Whats ironic is Eric has always been a hooved animal running wild from College as a Mustang, to LA as a Ram and then a Colt. Nothing could be more fitting for one of the greatest backs of all time.
True! Almost 4,000 rushing yards in his first 2 NFL seasons! (1983 & 84)...Great days! I was 20 and 21 in 1984! Just a fantastic time to be young!
Well said.
Raiders owner mark davis might be a jackass for abandoning Oakland, (governments don't owe private companies buildings) but the mascot, Raiders do not have hooves.
He was also a fictious character as a Raider!
How is that irony?
Dickerson was the most elegant runner Ive ever seen. He was like a gazelle in the open field. Dorsett was a close second.
No you got it wrong....Tony Dorsett was the most elegant.....only RB to have won a college NC and a Super Bowl, the Heisman and HOF in both NFL and college.
@@robertwolf3969 lol! I think it’s a matter of preferences. And I respect your opinion. True that TD had the most decorated career between the two. My comment was only based on individual running styles. They were both very smooth runners, but IMO the difference that made Dickerson more elegant was that beautiful, long stride. And understand that this comment is coming from a lifelong Cowboys fan who idolized TD growing up and loved Emmett Smith.
Dickerson was more elegant than Dorsett. Dorsett was smaller and had a shorter stride.
My favorite tailback ever
My son is a rams fan he 30. Faulk is the best rams rb he seen. I tell him it’s #29 wit jeri curl
Likewise
Best running back I ever saw live. Saw him a bunch as a kid . My uncle would take me to games to watch SMU. Robbed in 1982 of the national championship after beating Pitt in the cotton bowl .
Marino threw that game. He was very good at it.
FOR A LONG TIME PEOPLE SEEMED TO FORGET ABOUT ERIC IN THE GREATEST RUNNING BACK OF ALL TIME DISCUSSION...NOT ME.
or me
Not me Eric’s in the top 5 no d😮oubt
He always got accused and of not playing hard, not running full speed. What people who said that failed to realized is that he was 6’3”, and that height fooled a lot of people about his speed and quickness. Watch all the DBs who are chasing him in these highlights. They are running full speed, wide open; if Dickerson was loafing, he would have been exposed. He was truly amazing.
He was the best running back I've ever seen I'm a Rams fan I've never seen anything like it that big that adds it's incredible and I've never seen that footage from college thanks a lot I appreciate it
Eric Dickerson smooth smooth smooth silky smooth.
John Manning Don't let the SMOOTH TASTE fool you he would run you over if necessary ask Ronnie Lott.
So fast. Explosive. In his prime nearly unstoppable.
@@dwightlove3704 dam! he did!!
@@ShudrodWatts Yes he ran Ronnie Lott over like he was a 5 YR OLD!!!!!!!!!
@@jamezkpal2361 He looked as if he was running in slow motion
He was the most complete running back I've ever seen.
Good memories...Eric Dickerson & Craig James "Pony Express" as they were known...those old SMU games in Texas stadium were epic!
I'v said it 1000 times....He's the best player to touch a football I ever saw. Too big, too fast, and too strong for everybody around him, and it was like that in the pros too. He was just a phenom.........Great Highlights
If Jimmy Johnson had been coaching the Cowboys in the 80s Dickerson would be the NFL's all time leading rusher!!!!!
He’s a GOAT but you honestly just described Bo Jackson. He was actually too big strong fast and good for anyone. Something like MVP DRose
@@dwightlove3704 ... What are you saying? Dickerson was an L.A. Ram, Indy Colt and an L.A. Raider
@@krisschedler3947 The Cowboys had ppl to look at Dickerson and his potential but Gil Brandt felt that he was too big 6-3 220 and fast 4.30 to play HB in the NFL. So they passed up a chance to try and draft him and he was a fan of Dallas in his early years in high school.He repaid Dallas by breaking the NFL postseason record for rushing yds that was held by Jim Brown(237) with a new mark of 248 which still exist.
@@DaGr8Depression Dallas had Herschel Walker
Lance McIlheny was straight up 100% badass. Watch him block on these plays. Fearless. Loved that dude.
Lance was technically perfect and way beyond most college quarterbacks...very underrated
@@norrispg6085 He made the Option Offense go without him Dickerson would have been stopped in his tracks the QB is the reason why it was unstoppable.
man those were the good ol' days.
Wow!!!!!!!!!!
Log time rams fan and ran into this. Huge Dickerson fan.
I am ever so grateful and thankful for you posting this great footage. This was so amazing to watch.
Damn Eric made it look sooooo easy! WOW
Finally Dickerson SMU Highlights!
I hope that you enjoy them :)
+PockyCandy
Larry Johnson Penn st
+PockyCandy
eric bieniemy Colorado
Pocky Candy imagine Dickerson with the speed of BO JACKSON!!!!!!!
I love your work on these films so good to see all these backs in real time!! I miss these days
I'm glad that you enjoy these videos :) There are so many great running backs that need videos.
+PockyCandy yes there are I would love to see OJ Simpson Jamal Lewis
Eric Mack I'm planning on doing a Jamal Lewis video eventually. OJ Simpson is off-limits for me.
I agree about OJ. What a tragedy and a shame, but I don't want to see him either.
Shout out for how durable he was. He took a ton of hits. And kept going strong. Rare.
ED is my favorite player period I am ram fan for 48 years ! His height and speed is awesome! Thank you for all the memories!
Eric had one of the prettiest running styles ever
THE prettiest I've ever seen by far.
I miss the the old option shown in these clips
Keep on you will never see it again ever.Its like the Model T it has outlived its usefulness.
Think "Tailback" and you immediately get image of Dickerson 7+ yds deep...neck roll and all. What a talent!
Thats some of the best blocking i have ever seen.
love to see a highlight tape like this for sure definitely preferred
Eric Dickerson. The only athlete to ever take a pay cut going from college to the pros.
Funny ass comment
What do you mean?
@@BigOHavingFun watch the ESPN 30 for 30 called Pony Excess.
Studa Baker .... will be on the look out for it thanks !
@@BigOHavingFun SMU was paying their players which is why their football program got the death penalty from the NCAA
Best football player I ever saw. Cam is a close second, but Dickerson was really something to see...
My favorite back
Dickerson was flat out awesome in college. If you were old enough to watch those games, you know it was the quarterback that made those runs possible. McIlhenny was the maestro of option of football. He would pitch the ball at precisely the right moment, usually at the last second before getting throttled. People that say all he did was hand the ball off to DIckerson have no idea how difficult that was. He took a lot of pounding too. He fooled cameramen on numerous occasions. Wasn't the greatest passer or runner and never put up big numbers, but man he made that team go. He wasn't Pat White, Crouch, Harris, Frazier or any of those dudes, but for what his job was, no one did it better. I saw a poll ranking the greatest option quarterbacks ever and Tim Tebow was number one. Guys like Pat White, and Darien Hagan were also there. They weren't option quarterbacks. They were dual threat quarterbacks. I don't think any one of them could run it like McIhenny.
Yeah, McIlhenny was the Man. That was fun football to watch. Sad we'll never see that again.
John Black Yes the QB made the Option Offense go without a running QB Dickerson was render useless because of the defense could just key on him anytime they wanted.
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT...HE WAS A GIFTED GENIUS AT THE OPTION. HE STIRRED THE DRINK.
I’m old enough to have watched those games (after SMU was off probation in 1981 and had no televised games-what a shame). Mcllhenny was a straight up bad ass. Sure, Dickerson and James were great, but Mc kept it going with Reggie Dupard and Jeff Atkins in 1983, when SMU went 10-1 and only lost to unbeaten Texas. Mc ran that option to perfection. Watch the 1983 Cotton Bowl, when SMU beat Pitt 7-3 and he outplayed Dan Marino!
@@90srule96 Like the name. Yes, I remember. Not sure what happened to Marino and Pitt that year. They started off well. That SMU team was fun to watch. It was different back then. Now? ugghhh! I hate to sound like one of tbose older people that sing how great things used to be, but...in this case, it applies.
one of the best college RBs money could buy
All of them got paid under the table back then.
He was a great workhorse mustang for SMU .
Going to a game right now. I look up to this man.
The sweetest running style...…...EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! Roger Craig for the 9ers with his high knee action was dope too!!
Excellent job man...great footage, don't know how you get it all but God bless you...Brings back good memories when football was football.
Lance was a beast with that blind option....
The best college team that $$$ could buy.
if you were a big time college player in those days, you were almost certainly getting paid... probably rare that you were not paid
@olemissfan91 The money issue happened with Dickerson
no if that were true they would have won national championships, so obviously other schools bought better teams.
This dude had some serious speed! And 6'3 220lbs. Wow.
Johnathan Blaze When it came to speed is this what you mean at 6:15
@@dwightlove3704 yeah... That is a display of pure SPEED!!!!!!
@@bacchusthompson5834 Ppl don't know that he was a HIGH SCHOOL SPRINT CHAMPION HE CLOCKED A 9.4(100YD) TO WIN THE 1A STATE TITLE.
@@bacchusthompson5834 I think he should have been on the track team at SMU!!!! That 4.3 would have been 4.18!!!!!!!
@@bacchusthompson5834 I purchased a copy of his college jersey.
My Favorite all time also. Long stride, top speed as good as any Tail Back ever!
Eric reminds me of a running back I once pitched to at 13 years old ...Tom Bitz ...Tom was our whole team just about ...he went on to play at Catholic Central in London Ontario 😊
Eric Dickerson was too smooth for his own good!!!!!
Llf Llf Llf Llf
@@antoniohoward981 Dickerson ran track in high school.If I was his college coach he is in the NCAA FINALS he ran 4.3 for pro scouts that would have been 4.18
Dwight Love great day in the morning. He run so smooth. He could put a cup on his helmet while going on a long distance run
@@antoniohoward981 Yes he was crazy smooth!!!!!!!
Some players are just on another level…
saw dickerson the 1st time in 1978 as a 5th grader , my school played sealy in regional playoffs in pasadena . at the time our school bus had juinor high grades on the bus with the high schoolers and would drop us off at the juinor high , then the high schoolers would go to school 5 miles up the road . the star players on our team were cousins kenneth desohotel who was a dynamic tailback and his cousin charles deshotel a dual threat qb all they kept saying is that if we stop him they would win !! our school had just shocked the 2a world beating the number 1 team in state that year the newton eagles 31-15 , we lost our all district fullback robert sanders got hurt vs newton and didnt play in the sealy game and the districts best defensive lineman of the year todd shellhammer hurt his knee in the 1st quarter of the sealy game. and wouldnt return . we would loose too them 21-7 . but you saw the dominance of dickerson whos team would go on too win state . in high school , college and pro dickerson was the smoothest running back i ever saw . if if you just lined him up in the I formation and run him 25 to 28 times a game its no match . if he had stayed with the rams his whole career no telling how many yards he would have gotten . he is my all time favorite rb of all time .
Eric Dickerson was part of a tandem at SMU. Craig James as a part of the Pony Express.
No doubt #1...He ran so beautiful and powerful !!
Nicky look at him in his rookie yr in the NFL that 85 yd td run vs the NY Jets it was a thing of beauty!!!!!
I LOVE THAT RUN! That may be the best run by anyone ever in the NFL! He just BLAST off tackle and pure speed & power! He has a few major NFL records still....here's 3 for you....#1 Most yards single season= 2,105 (84')....#2...most yards by a Rookie= 1,808! (83')..his first 2 seasons he ran for almost 4,000 yards! ( NFL record!) also fastest RB to 10,000 yards ( only 91 NFL games!) He was awesome!
+Nicky Depaola Yeah I know those three marks and of course he still holds them but that 85yd run vs the Jets two guys were chasing him in full gallop and neither of them laid a finger on him he looked like he was walking on water!!!!!
+Nicky Depaola Compare his 85 yd run vs Bo Jackson's 91 yd run vs the Seahawks!!!!
Dwight Love Bo’s was better by a little. That was literally the fastest run in NFL history. The coasting into the tunnel was just the icing on the cake
A truly great player. The Pony Express!
living in Dallas TX watching#19 get the hand-offs man OHH Man....
Besides the neck roll, everything about E.D. was way ahead of his time! Being one of the first players to regularly rock a robot is something epic all alone on itself. But that Roadrunner” like long stride and dominate stay high and upright balanced running back style can also be seen in the likes of Tony Dorsett, Marcus Allen, Roger Craig, Bo Jackson, Herschel Walker, Ricky Watters, Robert Smith, Eddie George, Corey Dillon, Anthony Thomas, Larry Johnson, Willis Mcgahee, Brandon Jacobs, Cadillac Williams, Matt Forte, Arian Foster, Jamaal Charles, LaSean McCoy, Demarco Murray, Lamar Murray, Alfred Blue, T.J. Yeldon, Todd Gurley, Tevin Coleman, Melvin Gordon, Kenyon Drake, Brandon Wilds, Ty Isaac, Chris Carson, Damien Williams, Phillip Lindsay, Derrick Henry, Leonard Fournette, Saquon Barkley, Sony Michel, David Montgomery, Myles Sanders, CJ Dillon, Deandre Swift, Cam Akers.
Probably my 2nd favorite all time college runner after Curt Warner Penn State, then Eric, then tied for third Ki-Jana Carter and Larry Johnson PSU. Especially Larry because I was there when he broke 2,000 yards.
Besides Johnny Johnson.. Iv never seen a big back have the combo of speed and balance like ERIC.
5:20 Dickerson was an alien for sure🔥🔥
oh yea they should have won the national championship in 1982 after beating pitt , they didnt loose a game that year had a tie but still no losses at all they got robbed that year just to give jo pa his 1st national championship , it should have went to SMU . the irony of it all is they would give SMU the death penalty about 4 yrs later , penn state and joe pa have that scandal 30 plus years later a slap on the wrist like nothing happened , SMU still has never recovered from the death penalty !!
yeah, butt fucking little boys in the shower is not near as big a deal as paying players.
Eric Dickerson played with my Uncle back in day my uncle jackie being the one of the WRs. 🏈👍
JW!!!!
RIP to my teammate Jackie Wilson #85🙏🏿💪🏿✊🏿
Your uncle JW was a beast
I appreciate it thanks 💯🏈
The Pony Express!
Man that dude was smooth.. you could put a coke can on top of his helmet and he would never spill a drop
One of my favorite running backs of all time.
Sure was fun watching Eric run. No one ran as nice as Eric Dickerson .
Unreal to watch on Saturdays in 1982
Eric the Great is my all time favorite Running Back in the NFL, and I loved Barry Sanders...
My fave RB wott turn of speed and he makes look so easy
Many young people (maybe correctly 🤔) think Adrian Peterson Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith are the goats of the game. They dont know about, the Metcalf family, not just D.K. and a long list of backs they don't know about, but there are some great ones that weren't busts in the NFL. There was a very good back in the backfield with Eric, Craig James a white bro who was as good at SMU as Dickerson, but Dickerson outshined him in the pros, but still a great back.
Dickerson was definitely one of my favorite all time backs, but shotout to his teammates blocking. Everyone blocked!!! Some beautiful schemes
What was so great about the 81 season is that offensive line was supposed to be mediocre at best and they far exceeded mediocracy. Even in 82 they were supposed to be a little above average and they were awesome. Just goes to show you what the so-called experts now
eric Dickerson is the greatest of all time and it's really not even that close!!!
BO, Herschel, Dickerson, Dupree, etc were indeed great, but they were men among boys. They were the same size or bigger than opposing linebackers and defensive ends. Even some defensive tackles. Defensive Backs didn't stand a chance. All that has changed and now your tailbacks are facing people like Clowney , Watt, Boda, and other freaks on the other side of the line. The game has evolved, and you could argue in favor of the defense.
Can you do Eric Bienemy?
Eric, really came into his own, in the N.F.L. ...he looks much better as a pro ...receiver, and running back
That music and Keith Jackson's commentary on those amazing tailbacks, like ED, takes you to a Fall Saturday afternoon that is decidedly melancholy and wonderfully sacred. Btw, what is that classical piece called?
He was special. What he did with the Rams without an o-line is something.
Rams had a monster O-Line when Dickerson was there. They never had a QB, that was the problem.
The Pony Express. The best team money could buy. Went to many of their games back then
He was a way more violent runner in college than he ever was in the NFL..
Lay Music Productions Ask Ronnie Lott he found out the hard way.
Dickerson was great at SMU, but he'd have won the Heisman if he went to USC.
NkrumahTure Talk about What Ifs ! He could have followed Charles White at USC and kept Marcus Allen at FB or followed Billy Sims at Oklahoma
Or Oklahoma. Switzer almost had him too...dang. I'm so old it's still fresh in my memory
@@AOkie68 His grandmother did not trust Barry Switzer and he never set foot on the campus in Norman,Ok. inspite of wanting to attend OU.
I remember watching a nfl flims video of eric and he said if he had it his way he'd been a sooner
@@rankinnwc He was being recruited by Southern California while in high school.
he went to the perfect coach John robinson, Student body right student body left
Southern California was in the running for Dickerson while in high school.
Runs soo smooth
He was very fast.
Had no idea that SMU used to play at Texas Stadium. I always thought they were at the Cotton Bowl.
UH was playing in the Astrodome around this time too, I believe.
Texas Stadium was our home field. The SMU stadium has only been refurbished for a few years now(back on campus)
I get a kick out of all the idiots posting about how this team got caught for being paid, like this was the only team that ever got paid in college football or sports in general. and like somehow that diminishes eric Dickerson's greatness.
Exactly! Alabama was supposed to get the Death Penalty but the NCAA saw how it decimated SMU, USF and Wichita State so they stopped using it...
it's wild how much bigger ED is relative to everyone else on the field. So today, he's a wide receiver or edge rusher?
Just imagine if he was the primary runner while at SMU
He was the primary runner. Dickerson had 232 carries to Craig James's 197. In their senior years and 790 to 775 in their careers. So we don't have to imagine.
Before the tragedy And the USFL #22 OU he still corrected his story NFL made. MARCUS DUPREE.
u gotta do a Frank Gore homie
Marcus dupree and Dickerson similar in play?
Good comparison, with Dickerson being much faster✔
There's only 1 other tailback that had a style like him, and that was JOHNNY JOHNSON...which reminds me to ask, when is his highlight video gonna get done???!! It's been a long time coming Poc!!!
You are certainly persistent.
@@PockyCandy I wouldn't have to be if you were in making it!
Goat
E.D. Had sick talent. The best.
Lance Mclhenny’s famous blind pitch. Those were great teams.
Love watchin these vid, can you do one on Husker Running Backs?
What's with Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 at the start?
I'm a fan of the Gymnopedies.
Same here
I've noticed that Dickerson has long arms.
The most underrated tailback ever is LENNY MOORE. This guy Dickerson gets close.
What’s the song at the first few seconds in the intro?
i hope i dont sound picky cuz i am lovin" ALL these !!!!! just a request (since i see some others ones here) maybe a Ricky Watters one if you get a chance. but whatever ones you do , keep em coming if you can !! !better than ANYTHING on TV !!!!
You can’t really tell how fast he is until he slows down …
When he got to the NFL HE WAS THE TRUTH! TO BAD THEY DID NOT HAVE NIL BACK THEN BECAUSE SMU WAS A FORERUNNER OF IT!
best ever rb...thoroughbred with power
The qb was the lead blocker
What i noticed is that when the athlete is of another strata like ED he always beats the edge coverage.
Greatest RB I ever saw. However, is no one going to say it? Okay, I will. He is the reason SMU got the death penalty.
When the Rams got him, I was the happiest Kidd on the block... 🎶🙏🎶
Thanks for posting, but where are the highlights of Dickerson torching the Longhorns?
THANK YOU!!!!
The most fluent running back o.a.t
SMU - Dallas' second pro franchise
David Dickey Dallas GM Tex Schramm felt that his upright running style would not last in the NFL.Then ED set a NFL POST SEASON RUSHING MARK OF 248 YDS vs Dallas that still exist.
Pocky Candy can you find highlights of Walter Payton as a colleigian he attended Jackson St in the early 70s graduated in '75
I wish that I could make a Payton video, but I can't find any kind of footage of Walter Payton from his college days.
+PockyCandy Please keep at it
It's on TH-cam