NCAA Football, 2014-2015

[alfred russel]

I rewatched the U yesterday. And thought of Valmy when the Hurricanes raped Texas in the cotton bowl.

Hook 'em horns.

If it makes you enjoy it any more I cried at the time.  Man I loved that team but they were completely intimidated by Miami.  I have a deep hatred of the Hurricanes down in my DNA to this day as a result.  Texas never got revenge for that but I felt like Alabama did it for all College Football in 1993.

Well, the next year they were undefeated national champions and the year after 11-1 with that loss to Alabama.

[alfred russel]

The year before they were national champs (1 loss to FSU with a true frosh QB standing in for an injured Craig Erickson), the year before that 11-1 (with a bullshit loss to ND because of incompetent or cheating refs), the year before that undefeated national champs, and the year before that 11-1 with a loss to Penn State.

The 1990 team that beat Texas in the Cotton Bowl was the most unremarkable team in that run, and the only time they went to a bowl game without a good shot at a national title, but I think that bowl game is the most remembered by Miami fans.

[Valmy]

The 1990 team that beat Texas in the Cotton Bowl was the most unremarkable team in that run, and the only time they went to a bowl game without a good shot at a national title, but I think that bowl game is the most remembered by Miami fans.

The team that smashed Texas was not the same bunch of chumps who lost to BYU, I don't know what the hell happened.

That Texas team was the best one between 1982 and 1995 so it is difficult to really vocalize what a crushing blow that was.  It took Texas years to get over it.  It was not until the run at the end of 1994 the ended with Texas beating Mack Brown in the Sun Bowl that it was fully shaken off.  The sheer contempt and hostility the Hurricane team and their fans had towards us was weird.  The savage way they beat Texas down, while setting records for personal fouls and doing the upside down horns and everything, one would have thought Texas was their most hated rival not some team they hardly ever played.  It was truly bizarre.  I think that is what made it so enraging to me as a 12 year old, Texas was total dogshit to them and they let us know with every opportunity.

[alfred russel]

The team that smashed Texas was not the same bunch of chumps who lost to BYU, I don't know what the hell happened.

The game was in Provo. I think it was the third game of the year for BYU. It was the first game of the year for Miami. Ty Detmer basically won the heisman trophy in that game. Everything went wrong--I think the Ibis even broke his leg and went around on a scooter the rest of the year.

I think BYU should give an assist to the scheduler for that one.

[alfred russel]

Also, I think the 1990 Hurricanes were starting to lose control.

Jimmy Johnson ran a very tight ship that just looked like it was wild and crazy. Some fighting and things that others considered unsportsmanlike were fine, but the players couldn't do things that hurt the team and had to practice hard.

Erickson took over in 1989 and I think he really lost control. I understand he was crying in his office after that Cotton Bowl. In a lot of ways I think Miami was lucky to keep the run going into 1991 and 1992. The team wasn't so dominant. People laugh at Gino Torretta now, but he was a much better college QB than he gets credit for. That offensive line in 1992 was horrendous. I think one of the tackles was 230 something pounds. FSU sacked Torretta something like 9 times in 1991.

[Valmy]

If he hadn't been given the Heisman Trophy over Marshall Faulk, in one of the most inexplicable Heisman votes ever, nobody would remember him as being anything but just one of many good UM QBs.  Instead he gets remembered as a guy who did not deserve the Heisman.  Not his fault though.

[Valmy]

I love how vividly I remember everything that happened in College Football from 1988 to 1994. I was such a fanatic as a tweener.  It all was so serious back then.

[derspiess]

I love how vividly I remember everything that happened in College Football from 1988 to 1994. I was such a fanatic as a tweener.  It all was so serious back then.

It was a fun era for football.

[Valmy]

It was a fun era for football.

In 1991 there was this game between the fightin' Detmers and the fightin' Faulks that ended up in a 52-52 tie and I was so excited about the rematch in 1992 I could barely sleep the night before...about a game between BYU and SDSU.

[alfred russel]

I love how vividly I remember everything that happened in College Football from 1988 to 1994. I was such a fanatic as a tweener.  It all was so serious back then.

We've been brainwashed into thinking that there are more important things in life than college football and who wins the world series. 

It all made so much sense when we were 13.

[sbr]

I wasn't sure where to post this article,

The NCAA college football thread 2014 - 2015 that was already started was one option you had. 

I didn't see that one.  I didn't look either, but let's not pick nits.

[sbr]

[alfred russel]

The world has been changing so fast the last few decades, it is nice to have a few constants to keep us grounded. The excitement of a child on christmas morning, shoplifting by fsu superstars.

[derspiess]

[alfred russel]

Finally, we get some insight into what it is like to be a youngish football coach in Texas.

In a rare episode of true investigative journalism, a fake tinder account was created for Kliff Kingsbury. Results were better than those of his football team, to say the least.

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2014/5/14/5717078/guns-up-on-tinder