It's been a very lame season. It's very difficult for experienced Tech fans to sit there and watch the same 3 or 4 plays run over and over and over offensively. No innovation. No energy. No passion. And no change, from week to week. And our coach is hell bent on not swapping out personnel. So we have to watch the same ole crap.
Even though we're in Week 11, our team still punts the ball 7 yards, gives up repeated 3rd down conversions defensively, misses easy chip shot field goals that most high school kickers can make and of course, manages to draw the conventional personal foul at the most inopportune time each week. It's all very predictable now. And yes, we still have players --in week 11-- that still do not know where to line up on special teams.
Our offense couldn't score if they all lived in a whorehouse.
I've heard more people complain about "being bored" at Tech games this year than any year I can remember. Even 2013 was more exciting than this. Skip Holtz is killing us.
I was about to ask the same question of some of our older posters, I just do not ever remember a season with an atmosphere like this one.
I usually make all the home games with the exception of this year, yes I would still be attending them all if it were not for a health issue I have this year. I have been making games since 1982, that seems like a long time to some of you and yet it is about half as long as some of the posters on this board.
Let's get back to the subject though, does anyone remember the atmosphere around TECH Football being this bad? I don't...
Well it wasn't too great in the 1966 season. We only won one game. Of course there was no "tail gating" then and the old stadium only held about 6000 total if you stretched it. We actually had that many students starting in 1965. The 1967 season wasn't much better. We did not win a conference game. Even lost to SLC who we at least beat the year before.
Yea...I figured some of you guys had seen some really hard times, bet that was tough to sit through, but did the fan base seem to lose all hope as they have this year? Does not seem many care if we win any more games this year, go to a bowl, etc.. I think it feels to some of us, even if we have a miraculous turnaround for next year, we are just not that excited about 2018 either.
Saturday's atmosphere is still several notches above some of the Bicknell era games late in the season
UTEP at Shreveport
Rice blowout in Ruston
The freezing Fresno St game with Corso and Lou in the booth
Are some that are really etched in my mind
UTEP might of had 3,000 people in attendance in Shreveport and they beat us like a rented mule
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
Yes DFW the last Bicknell years were pretty awful. I had season tickets then and remember them well. The hope was that he would be gone. Then we had DD who brought some life back into the program even though he had only one winning season out of three.
We beat UTEP that year (2002) - but the stadium was empty & it was COLD.
November 23 2:00 PM UTEP Independence Stadium • Shreveport, LA W 38–24 9,267
ok -
Just remember the awful experience - I think they had ONE concession stand open on the east side
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
3 in Ruston - 2 in Independence
I'm glad we've gotten away from the 4 P5 games!
August 31 7:00 PM Oklahoma State* Independence Stadium • Shreveport, LA W 39–36 31,391 September 7 12:00 PM at Clemson* Memorial Stadium • Clemson, SC L 13–33 72,616 September 14 1:00 PM Tulsa Joe Aillet Stadium • Ruston, LA FSN W 53–9 18,600 September 21 11:00 AM at Penn State* Beaver Stadium • University Park, PA ESPN+ L 17–49 103,987 September 28 6:00 PM at No. 24 Texas A&M* Kyle Field • College Station, TX L 3–31 72,802 October 5 7:00 PM at Rice Reliant Stadium • Houston, TX L 20–37 20,895 October 19 2:00 PM at SMU Gerald J. Ford Stadium • Dallas, TX L 34–37 14,836 October 26 2:00 PM Nevada Joe Aillet Stadium • Ruston, LA W 50–47 15,315 November 9 4:00 PM at San Jose State Spartan Stadium • San Jose, CA L 30–42 6,391 November 16 2:05 PM at No. 23 Boise State Bronco Stadium • Boise, ID L 10–36 28,413 November 23 2:00 PM UTEP Independence Stadium • Shreveport, LA W 38–24 9,267 December 5 6:00 PM Fresno State Joe Aillet Stadium • Ruston, LA (Battle for the Bone) ESPN2 L 13–45 17,810