Five great players, continued

The Five Great Players post yesterday got me thinking: how has each team since the 1993 Big Ten championship team stacked up using this measuring stick? Here's what I'm thinking:

Great Players
1993 (10-1-1): Brent Moss, Joe Panos, Lamark Shackerford, Mike Thompson, Lee DeRamus
1994 (7-4-1): Terrell Fletcher, Joe Rudolph, Jeff Messenger, Cory Raymer
1995 (4-5-2): Eric Unverzagt, Darrell Bevell
1996 (8-5): Ron Dayne, Tarek Saleh, Pete Monty, Jerry Wunsch
1997 (8-5): Tony Simmons, Dayne
1998 (11-1): Dayne, Aaron Gibson, Tom Burke, Matt Davenport, Kevin Stemke
1999 (10-2): Dayne, Chris McIntosh, Wendell Bryant, Jamar Fletcher, Nick Davis, Casey Rabach
2000 (9-4): Michael Bennett, Chris Chambers, Kevin Stemke, Rabach, Bryant, Fletcher
2001 (5-7): Anthony Davis, Lee Evans, Bryant
2002 (8-6): Davis, Al Johnson, Jim Leonhard
2003 (7-6): Evans, Leonhard
2004 (9-3): Dan Buenning, Erasmus James, Anttaj Hawthorne, Leonhard
2005 (10-3): Brian Calhoun, Joe Thomas, Brandon Williams, Ken DeBauche
2006 (12-1): Thomas, Travis Beckum, P.J. Hill, Jack Ikegwuonu
2007 (9-4): Taylor Mehlhaff, Beckum

No surprise, but there's definitely a correlation between great players and great seasons.

What do you think about the players I have on here? Discuss.

Coaching tree update

Quick update on a couple Badger football coaching tree developments while I was gone:

-Joe Rudolph, who was one of the underrated standouts on the first Alvarez Rose Bowl team, has joined the staff as tight ends coach. He was most recently on Bill Callahan's staff at Nebraska in the same capacity.

-Dan McCarney was named Florida's assistant head coach. That's pretty huge for Mac, a testament to the respect he has amongst coaches that Urban Meyer would give him this title a little more than a year after winning the national title.