Former Alabama POUND Derrick Thomas Snubbed by the College Football Hall of Fame

Former SEC stars Danny Wuerffel and Kentucky defensive end Steve Meilinger will 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 Johnson. The former Crimson Tide star was left on the outside looking in yet again for the third straight year, and the reasoned explanations why still boggle your brain. As a member of Tide, Thomas set the NCAA record with 52 job sacks from 1985-88, 27 of which came during his senior year. Think of that for one second...he had 27 bags in one period. That is 14 more than South Carolina's Jadeveon Clowney had last year. He was named a first-team All-American in 1988, won the Butkus Award that will be 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 the most dominant linebackers in SEC history, and deserves to be enshrined as a result. It is taken by ryan Brown of WJOX 94.5 in Birmingham a step further. It'd be difficult to make a disagreement against it, If you watched him play and have seen his figures. ESPN's Ivan Maisel reported this past year that the Hall of Fame features a rule against inducting players from the same college in successive months, while that rule does not look on the nominee record. That's not relevant here. Alabama didn't have a player inducted to the Hall of Fame in 2012. Also still, why have players on the ballot who are not permitted be inducted? Whether it's an insurance policy or perhaps a set-in-stone rule, it doesn't make any sense. Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier finally managed to get in the Hall of Fame in the type of 2013 after years of public backlash. It seems that Thomas may be the "new Tommie Frazier," and hopefully that suggests his family hears his name called in the not-too-distant future. All things considered, he deserves it.

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