So Cal's All-Time Roster: No. 94
No. 94:
Our pick:
==Kenechi Udeze, USC football ('00-'03)
Former USC assistant coach Ed Orgeron tells the story that the recruitment of Udeze out of Verbum Dei High was the first real star that Pete Carroll's new staff was able to land, setting the wheels in motion for a strech of success that the program hadn't seen since the '70s. USC was 5-7 during Udeze's freshman season, improved to 6-6, and then went 11-2 on '02, winning the Pac-10 title. He then helped them to the Rose Bowl win in '04 that clinched the No. 1 ranking in the final AP poll.
A three-year starter who finished with a school-record 28 sacks, 14 forced fumbles, two blocked kicks and 135 tackles was the first Trojan defensive lineman to earn All-America honors since Tim Ryan (1989). BKU posted 24 sacks in the 26 final games of his career.
The Minnesota Vikings took him with the 20th pick of the first round in the 2004 NFL Draft and gave him No. 95. And, for the record, Kenechi means "God's love will always be with me" in Nigerian, his native country.
Runner-up:
==Mike Lodish, UCLA football (1985-'89)
The 6-foot-3, 270 pound defensive end and nose tackle was a 10th round pick of the Buffalo Bills in the 1990 draft. Then he drifted over to the Denver Broncos (where he wore No. 97). As a result, played 11 seasons in the NFL and holds a league record with most Super Bowl appearances -- six. These days, Lodish is the president of Ethos Sports, a full-service sports agency service.
Other No. 94s:
==Paul Bergmann, UCLA football ('79-'83)
==Don Yi, Dodgers (1994).
He was the interpreter for South Korean native rookie Chan Ho Park, a 31-year-old computer engineer out of UCLA who the team issued a uniform to and kept him on the bench.
Sports Illustrated's pick for the all-time No. 94: Charles Haley
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