Where are they now - Hugh Green South Carolina running back George Rogers may have won the 1980 Heisman Trophy, but Pitt linebacker Hugh Green, the runner-up, was the players' choice. Weeks before the trophy ceremony, Green, Rogers and five other Heisman hopefuls gathered for their own vote. Green won in a 6-1 landslide. (The lone nod to Rogers? That came from Green.) While starring at Pitt, Green had a personality that transcended the sport. He mucked around the Pirates' dugout with Willie Stargell and Dave Parker and befriended Steelers coach Chuck Knoll. Green had 123 tackles and 17 sacks his senior year while the Panthers finished 11--1 and second in the polls. The season ended with a South Carolina-Pitt meeting in the Gator Bowl, where the debate about Rogers and Green was the top story line: Rogers fumbled twice, and with Green fighting through double-teams for five tackles, Pitt dominated 37-9. The following spring the Buccaneers took Green with the seventh pick in the 1981 draft; he appeared in two Pro Bowls with Tampa Bay before retiring as a Miami Dolphin in 1991. In 2003 -- after a rocky stretch during which he became what he calls "an anti-people person" and moved to the backwoods of Mississippi -- Green renewed his interested in the NFL. He enrolled in the league's coaching internship program and had brief stints as an assistant coach with the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe, the Miami Tropics of the Spring Football League and the CFL's Montreal Alouettes. In 2004 he met with Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid about a position on his staff. (Reid declined.) Now Green, 45, is trying to work with young NFL players in another capacity. Along with a small group of investors, he is trying to purchase a luxury car rental company in Las Vegas. The group would like to expand the business into a national chain and offer franchises as investment opportunities for rookies. "It would be something they could come back to if, God forbid, they're not in the league next week," Green says, sounding almost fatherly before turning businessman again. "Those kids have too much damn money, anyway." Adam Duerson, Sports Illustrated 12 July 2005