Explanation here.
A little background:
The NCAA usually allows a player to only have four years of eligibility plus a redshirt season. In extreme cases, a player might get a sixth year because of injury issues. Because of all the hype starting in high school, redshirts, injuries, freshmen eligibility and other factors, it sometimes seems like certain players have been around for ten years or more. Sometimes a player has only played for a few seasons but you can't imagine your college football life without him.
Every fan has a specific standard for the player who appeared to hang around college football forever. For me it was former Miami PK Carlos Huerta.
Huerta is the all-time leading scorer in Miami history with 397 points playing from 1988 to 1991. Because Miami was so good and was always on TV, the name Carlos Huerta was drilled into my subconscious after he was a part of just about every college football Saturday for four years hitting extra point after extra point for the high octane Canes. As years go by and the great Hurricane teams tend to blend together in memory, it seems like Huerta was there from the Orange Bowl win over Nebraska in 1984 through the Frank Costa years of the mid-1990s.
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