I think when you look at the last 15-20 years, if you mention dogs who are all around great dogs or even just great producers. There has been a slew of dogs that deserve mention in the top Ranks and I'm not sure Emmitt cracks that top 10 of all time ranks but if you got from last 15-20 he meets it. Even when you think of last 15 years you got dogs like GrCh Awesome Beast who probably heads that list with Blackjack and Big Red and so on and so forth. I think if you narrow it to just greatest "Boyles bred" type dogs, Emmitt is top 5 but in my opinion he could be #1 if Ch Chino ROM isn't in the discussion. Even though Mann is the one who bred Chino, I believe most would call him a Boyles dog. Back to the topic Emmitt is a Ch for one, a true Ch and nobody is saying he was the baddest Ch to walk the planet but he definitely earned his rank. Then you look at his production, I remember when I visited SunShine state years ago and spoke with them boys. If not mistaken it was believed he had about 7 Ch's if not more. Not sure how great or bad his % was, but from what we had seen it was a lot more usable dogs then it was trash. When I say usable I just mean dogs you could comfortably place a bet on. As we have all seen at some point in time, you just never know what a hound is going to do on a certain night, but the ones we seen we felt that dog is worth a bet at least 4:1 ration. As well as the Champions he produced he had 3 GrCh Retard, Demon & Wacko (unfortunately lost his status) as well as one recognized ROM dog 44 ROM. Now just a question, to see if anybody else has heard this rumor, I can't say for sure who had started the rumor bug or how honest they were or what proof but there was mention of Ch Jethro ROM being off Emmitt. Again I'm not going to start that rumor up but a friend of mine, who likes Jethro dogs jokingly but with seriousness said to me that it could make sense but at the same time he said Sparky wasn’t the highest % producer and that Jethro was throwing the same way. When you got a good one, you had a good one, and when you got junk, it was a lot of junk.