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https://www.sbnation.com/college-foo...boston-college Fun read. I was only 6 so I don't remember any of this first-hand, but of course we're all pretty familiar with the Doug Flutie Hail Mary at this point. (Meanwhile Tech won 10 games despite losing to three of our least favorite teams to lose to - both ULX twins and USM)
Tech's results:Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
1984...remember it well. Kyle Gandy at QB. Jerry Rice's TD just before the half...we all knew he'd be playing on Sundays!
I think that was the year Tech played in the NC game on the campus of The Citadel. We, i.e. fans, flew a charter out of Monroe ($100). We lost the game, however - I think to Montana State.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
A point a minute was their mantra. That day, Tech scored a point a minute. I think the final was 61-17, then played the next week at Memorial Stadium in Jackson.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
I attended both playoff games against the SWAC teams. One thing that has always stuck out in my memory is the halftime show in Jackson when Alcorn's version of the Regal Blues came and performed in front of the Tech crowd. They had people in the stands blushing with pretty much the same dance moves that our Regal Blues use these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by stodgdog
Beat Jerry Rice and Miss Valley State 66-19, and Jackson State 44-21. We led 44-0 then with about 10 mins left we cleared the bench, and JSU got 3 late, garbage time TDs.
The Valley game...I was standing around a group of their fans, about 12 of 'em, all decked out in their school's garb, and running their mouths BIG TIME before the game, and for a good portion of the 1st qtr. And then...they started getting quiet. They did jump around and high five each other, and then looked at we Tech fans with a smug look when Rice made that spectacular catch and run....but that just cut the score to Tech 38 Valley 19 at the half. We outscored 'em 28-0 in the second half. Our defense settled in and got the gist of their no-huddle, hurry-up offense and solved it. Valley was ahead of the times, back in '84, with that high octane offense. Willie Totten was the QB, and he was good. In addition to Rice they had other good players. Lost in all the passing was their huge fullback who had something like 250 yds rushing that day. They would spread out the defense will all those WRs, and then run that big FB right up the middle and the whole pile would move 8-10 yards each time.
Don't remember the exact numbers, but Valley easily had 500+ yards of total offense, and we had 600+ yards. The biggest difference was we finished drives, while their drives stalled in the red zone or they turned it over. It was a fun game! I admit I was nervous going into that one. The numbers Valley had hung up, like 1,000 yds of offense in one game, and often scoring 70+ pts, was enough to make us wonder if Tech could hang with 'em. But looking at their schedule it was all SWAC teams and games against the likes of Oklahoma Panhandle State. Tech was the first, and only, real football team they played.
You are too young to remember, but in those days USL and USM were I-A/FBS where the scholarship limit was 99. They had 25-30 more scholarship players than Tech which was I-AA after the Southland Conference was forced down after the 1981 season.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Yep! and USL refused to go down and stayed in IA as an independent. One would think by doing that it would have paid off long term, but it didn't help them garner any real advantage over us and some others.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Historian
I'm pretty sure it was Alcorn St that we played in Jackson.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Alcorn State, Jackson State...what's the difference?Quote:
Originally Posted by brtransplant
The thing I remember was sitting in the stands surrounded by Grambling, Southern and other SWAC fans who were rooting for Tech. Valley had run the score up on many of thier teams and they wanted and got a Valley take down.
There was a stretch there of 2-3 years where NLU beat us late in the season then just had to win one more game to make the playoffs, and laid an egg each year. I'm pretty sure they could have made the playoffs in '84 instead of us if they just could have won the game after ours -- and they blew it against a team they should have beaten easily. I always figured it had a lot to do with the fact that they got so high about playing usQuote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Good point and it would still apply today if we agreed to play them on a regular basis. I'm not saying they would win, but it would breath life into an otherwise dead fan base. Get ready if they win 6. The talk won't be about them going to a bowl game, rather it will be about how they can play Tech in a bowl game. They are pitifulQuote:
Originally Posted by TechDawgMc
Go easy on ulm….we're all they have.