Last week I gave you the 10 best basketball players I have seen in my time broadcasting at Towson.

Well, this week was a little tougher. It is my all-time Towson football team. Today we will focus strictly on the offense. My years broadcasting Towson football go from 1979-84, 1989, and 1991-present. Boy have I seen a lot of great players. This team was tough to come up with, because there have been so many talented guys to wear the black and gold.

On the offensive line, I went with five players. I did not go with position. For running back I went with the best two, not necessarily a halfback and a fullback, and at one position I just couldn't differentiate between one or the other.

So without any further ado, here are my best offensive players in Towson football history.

OL- Jermon Bushrod. Along with Sean Landeta and Dave Meggett, the most successful athlete in Towson football history. First team All-Patriot League in 2006. Just a dominant left tackle who would go on to win a Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints.

OL- Karl Nieberlein. Part of one of the best offensive lines in school history. Third team All-American in 1993. Karl anchored a line that could block the run or the pass with great efficiency. You weren't getting past him.

OL- Eric Pike. As good as Nieberlein's line was in the early 90s, Pike's line in the early 2010s was right there with them. Eric was a first team All-American during the Tigers' run to the national championship in 2013.

OL- Randall Harris. First team All-CAA in 2012 and 2013. Along with Pike, helped Terrance West shatter the Towson rushing record book. This line, like the one in the early 90s, could run or pass block with the best of them. Harris was a major reason why.

OL- Doug Shaw. Third team All-CAA in 2013. Did not get the accolades others did, but as the center on that national championship runner up team, all you heard from coaches and teammates was how Shaw was the glue that held them together.

I have to admit. Doing the offensive linemen was not easy. If we are all being honest here, they are probably the group you watch the least. Once that ball is snapped your eyes go elsewhere. Of course we watch them the least, but it's probably the most important group on the football field.

TE- Hernando Mejia - H, as he was known, and I were classmates at Towson. When he graduated in 1983, he was tied for third on the Tigers all-time receiving list with 94 career receptions. Now, he isn't even in the top 20. There have been many tight ends for the Tigers who were very good at blocking. But none who could block and catch like H. Over the years, throwing to the tight end has not been a major part of the Towson playbook, but when you had a guy like Hernando Mejia, it had to be.

WR- Mark Orlando. Though he graduated 26 years ago, but he is still the Towson all-time leader in receiving yards with 3,460. Still the all-time leader in receiving touchdowns with 31 and averaged 19.4 yards per reception. Every time the ball was thrown his way, six points were in play. He caught a TD on 17.5 percent of his receptions.

WR- Jamal White. Second all-time in receptions, second all-time in yardage and third all-time in TD receptions. First team All-Patriot league in 2002. He was as dependable as they get. Great hands and a great ability to get open. Part of the greatest passing year in Towson history, 1999. Tigers threw for 4,193 yards.

RB- Terrance West. Put together the greatest rushing in year in FCS history in 2013. Rushed for 2,509 yards and scored 41 touchdowns. All-time leader in rushing yards, rushing attempts and rushing touchdowns. Explosive. Great vision. Winner of the first ever Jerry Rice Award in 2011, given to the top FCS freshman in the country. His performance against Eastern Illinois in the FCS playoffs may be the greatest performance I have ever seen. Ran for 354 yards in the snow. YouTube that game. It's unreal.

RB- Tony Vinson. Two-year player for the Tigers after transferring from Purdue. Holds the NCAA record for most yards rushing in a game with 364 against Bucknell in 1993. The following week, he rushed for 324 against Morgan, and he was pulled from the game midway through the THIRD QUARTER. Great speed. And like TWest, had power to go along with it. Had he been at Towson four years, his numbers would have been obscene.

QB- Tie Dan Crowley and Sean Schaefer. I just could not put one above the other. So I went to the only man who coached them both through their entire careers, Gordy Combs. I asked him the first thing that came to his mind when he thinks of the two.

"Dan Crowley was the greatest competitor I have ever seen." That competitor threw for 8,900 career yards, and is still the Tigers' all-time leader in touchdown passes with 81. Led Towson to back to back 8-2 seasons. His numbers would be even gaudier if he didn't have two 1,000 yard rushers in the backfield in Tony Vinson and Brian McCarty. Probably the greatest arm in Towson history.

Combs on Sean Schaefer. "I never saw Sean sweat. He was always calm. As good as a player as he was, he was a better teammate." Schaefer is the Tigers' all-time leader in passing yards with 11,644. He is second all-time in touchdown passes with 76.

Both of these guys were just outstanding on and off the field. Dan is now a Senior Associate Athletic Director at Towson. The school could not ask for a better ambassador. I am proud to call him a friend.

Sean followed in his father's footsteps and is a firefighter. A nicer guy has never put on a Towson uniform.

KR- Derrick Joseph. When Rob Ambrose took over as head coach in 2009, it had been 14 years since Towson had had a kickoff returned for a touchdown. He promised me it wouldn't be long. I can't tell you how many times during a broadcast as the Tigers got set to return a kick, I said "Maurice Sydnor was the last Tiger to return a kick for a touchdown against Butler in 1995."

Finally, on November 12, 2011, Derrick Joseph stopped that drought against New Hampshire. He would do it three more times during his stellar career. He was a second team All-American in 2011. Boy could he move.

FG- Aidan O'Neill 2018 First team All-American. All-time school leader with 64 field goals, top-10 in FCS history, and all-time leader in field goal percentage at .727. His freshman year in 2016, he hit a 55 yard field goal on the last play of the game to beat Rhode Island.
 
So there is your all-time offense. Later this week the all-time defense.

Stay safe everyone.