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BCS National Championship: Juaquin Iglesias is tough, talented

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: January 6, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment
photo - Juaquin Iglesias scores during the first half of the college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and Texas Tech University at the Gaylord Family -- Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008, in Norman, Okla. BY STEVE SISNEY
Juaquin Iglesias scores during the first half of the college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and Texas Tech University at the Gaylord Family -- Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008, in Norman, Okla. BY STEVE SISNEY

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Sam Bradford won the Heisman. Jermaine Gresham, G.K. McCoy and Duke Robinson made All-American.

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Jeremy Beal, Jon Cooper, Nic Harris, Travis Lewis, Phil Loadholt, DeMarco Murray and Trent Williams made All-Big 12.

But since November’s arrival, when the offense jumped aboard a 60-points-a-game carousel and the defense grew fangs, no Sooner has played better than the Hispanic kid who once was scared to get hit.

When Oklahoma plays Florida in the Big Bowl on Thursday night, few will be more central to Sooner success than Juaquin Iglesias.

"I don’t think anybody’s played better than him the last month of the season,” said OU receivers coach Jay Norvell. "He’s so competitive and tough.”

I watched Iglesias play down the stretch, rise up the school pass-catching charts, become an open-field terror who lives off yards after the catch, and decided to write a column about how he’s a poor man’s Mark Clayton.

Then I talked to Norvell and found out Iglesias is a poor-man Hines Ward, the Pittsburgh Steeler flanker who plays like an offensive linebacker.

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