Can Skip Channel His Inner Lou?

[Dwayne From Minden]

[HogDawg]

Ahhh....the 1978 Orange Bowl. Without question, one of the best bowl games I've ever seen. Arkansas Coach Lou Holtz lost 3 starters prior to kickoff, but still managed to beat a heaviliy favored Barry Switzer coached Oklahoma team in a masterful performance. Backup running back Roland Sales started for Arkansas in the place of All-American Ben Cowins, and rushed 22 times for 205 yards, an Orange Bowl record. He also caught 4 passes for 52 yards, and rushed for 2 TD's. Arkansas upset OU, 31-6, and it wasn't even that close.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Orange_Bowl

[KSDAWG]

Here's to repeating the past in a positive way! !

[Russdawg]

Ahhh....the 1978 Orange Bowl. Without question, one of the best bowl games I've ever seen. Arkansas Coach Lou Holtz lost 3 starters prior to kickoff, but still managed to beat a heaviliy favored Barry Switzer coached Oklahoma team in a masterful performance. Backup running back Roland Sales started for Arkansas in the place of All-American Ben Cowins, and rushed 22 times for 205 yards, an Orange Bowl record. He also caught 4 passes for 52 yards, and rushed for 2 TD's. Arkansas upset OU, 31-6, and it wasn't even that close.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Orange_Bowl

If our guys come out tomorrow as fired up and intense as that 24 point underdog Arky team I think we'll be fine.

In the 1978 Arky incident, the three starters were suspended (by a team vote conducted by Holtz) over a campus incident with a female student. The three suspended players filed suit and Holtz was defended by a 32 year old unheard of Ark attorney general named Bill Clinton.

[HogDawg]

If our guys come out tomorrow as fired up and intense as that 24 point underdog Arky team I think we'll be fine.

In the 1978 Arky incident, the three starters were suspended (by a team vote conducted by Holtz) over a campus incident with a female student. The three suspended players filed suit and Holtz was defended by a 32 year old unheard of Ark attorney general named Bill Clinton.

That's a nice piece of trivia right there.

[Russdawg]

That's a nice piece of trivia right there.

Thanks. The episode is quite a story on overcoming adversity and the stress that may go with making the RIGHT decision even when it's TOUGH.

The incident involved race in the late 70's too, and around 25 of Holtz's black players had told him they woudn't play either if their teammates weren't restored. In Holtz's book Wins Losses and Lessons he talks about family prayer over the incident, legal wrangles, not knowing really how many starters might be out. But the team CAME TOGTHER minus the three suspendees and gave an alomost superhuman tenacious, dogged effort.

Hope our guys can give an equally tenacious and dawgged effort in Huntington. GO DAWGS

[HogDawg]

Thanks. The episode is quite a story on overcoming adversity and the stress that may go with making the RIGHT decision even when it's TOUGH.

The incident involved race in the late 70's too, and around 25 of Holtz's black players had told him they woudn't play either if their teammates weren't restored. In Holtz's book Wins Losses and Lessons he talks about family prayer over the incident, legal wrangles, not knowing really how many starters might be out. But the team CAME TOGTHER minus the three suspendees and gave an alomost superhuman tenacious, dogged effort.

Hope our guys can give an equally tenacious and dawgged effort in Huntington. GO DAWGS

I remember that whole thing very well. And you're not exaggerating one bit. Nobody --and I mean, NOBODY-- gave Arkansas a chance in hell to win that game. (And this is back when bowl games really meant something.) It is perhaps the single biggest example in my lifetime of an underdog "team" coming together, overcoming adversity and OVER achieving. A fascinating story, really.

[Dogsince65]

Ahhh....the 1978 Orange Bowl. Without question, one of the best bowl games I've ever seen. Arkansas Coach Lou Holtz lost 3 starters prior to kickoff, but still managed to beat a heaviliy favored Barry Switzer coached Oklahoma team in a masterful performance. Backup running back Roland Sales started for Arkansas in the place of All-American Ben Cowins, and rushed 22 times for 205 yards, an Orange Bowl record. He also caught 4 passes for 52 yards, and rushed for 2 TD's. Arkansas upset OU, 31-6, and it wasn't even that close.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Orange_Bowl

one consolation - replacement players have at least 12 game under belt -- i woke up this morning and first thing I thought is 29 hours til game

[Tech62]

The story goes that after that game a reporter was interviewing Lou Holtz and commented that he had never seen a team leave the locker room so quickly and fired up to take the field. He asked Holtz what he had said to the team in the locker room. Holtz was reported to have said he told them
that Oklahoma was big and they were mean and tough. Nobody was giving them a chance, so the last 11 men out of the licker room would have to start! Anyhow that was a Arkansas legend at the time.