(College Football) 1997 – Nebraska @ Washington
November 28, 2009 by admin · 7 Comments
MatcoSports asked:
September 20, 1997 – Highlights of the college football game between the #6 Nebraska Cornhuskers & #3 Washington Huskies from Husky Stadium in Seattle, WA.
Kirk Herbstreit is a whining little girl
November 27, 2009 by admin · 25 Comments
1TheBigRed asked:
Herbstreit is a whining little biotch. Excerpts from ESPN’s ‘All-Time Greatest College Football Playoff’ Show. Enjoy as Kirk throws a hissy fit because none of his choices won and he can’t hide his disgust for Nebraska Football.
espn college football final – final verdict – tebow or mccoy
November 27, 2009 by admin · 25 Comments
ichipmaker asked:
Lou Holtz debates Mark May on Tim Tebow or Colt McCoy
Top Football Stadiums in College
November 25, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
Sports are a big part of college life. From the drunkards that attend to the students there to show support for their team and school, football can bring out the best or worst in people. For those who love to watch more than just the NFL, here are a few of the top stadiums colleges have to offer.
The top stadium belongs to Texas A&M. Kyle field, is more than just a stadium, it’s an experience. The fans here support their team so much that they stand during the entire game, except when the opposing band plays at halftime. For the lovers out there, fans continuously make out every time the team scores. And last but not least, Kyle field is home of the 12th man. Who wouldn’t want to be part of the game without having to actually endure the bone crushing tackles?
When it comes to home field advantage no stadium can compare to Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium. Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Va., doesn’t blow people away by the brute strength of a massive stadium, but with knowledgeable that can drown out the noise of an aircraft. Every good stadium has at least one end designed for deafening noise levels and the enclosed South End Zone at Lane Stadium fits the bill perfectly. Holding more than 11,000 screaming Virginia Tech fans, the section amplifies noise and renders audibles useless. That’s not to mention the isolation factor. With the nearest major airport nearly 45 minutes away, opponents’ fans are never out in force at Lane Stadium.
Neyland Stadium home of the Tennessee Vols has a style of its own. For starters there’s the checkerboard end zone. Not many teams have gotten creative enough to think of something like this. Next there the fight song of the Vols. With the crowd constantly chanting it, any new fan will know the words by the end of the game. Some nice attractions of the stadium include the Tennessee River, where fans arrive by boat and tailgate hours before kickoff and hours after the game. On the other side is The Hill, the historic center of UT’s old campus. Rising above it all are the Smoky Mountains, a perfect scenic backdrop for a fall Saturday afternoon. For the fans who love a nice view of things other than the game this is the place for you.
Fourth is Notre Dame Stadium the home of the fighting Irish. At this stadium you’ll find a little bit of heaven. Within waking distance of the field are great structures such as the Golden Dome, the Grotto, the Basilica of Sacred Heart, and Hesburgh library which features ‘Touchdown Jesus’ on its side. Notre Dame Stadium was expanded to accommodate fans who couldn’t get tickets. The school has sold out every game but one since 1964. The only non-sellout over that time was a Thanksgiving Day game vs. Air Force in 1973 when students weren’t on campus. The fans also show their dedication by holding rousing pep rallies on Friday nights. Isn’t this the type of crowd you’d like to be around while watching an intense game?
And finally Florida Field, home of the Gators comes in fifth. Various renovations over the years have contributed to an 83,000-seat configuration unlike your typical bowl. The first level is underground and both end zones are enclosed. There’s no buffer from the field to the stands which is less than ten feet in some areas, which creates a sense of fans on top of the field and players. The North end zone Touchdown Terrace is deafening for opponents, adding an advantage for the Gators. The players go nuts, but the fans are worse. Between the screaming and the hollering fans can barley hear the person next to them and that’s before kickoff. So if you’re a fan who loves to be nasty and noisy this is the stadium for you.
By: Bob Johnson
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Bob is with EZ Ticket Search – providing premium seating in the secondary market to sports, concerts, broadway events and College Football Tickets. Visit my blog EventOutlet.com to read more College Football articles.
Herschel Walker: Greatest College Football Running Back Ever
November 24, 2009 by admin · 25 Comments
GADawgyDawg asked:
University of Georgia’s own Herschel Walker is without question the greatest college football running back of all time. Even ESPN couldn’t get this one wrong.
The College Football Tour Guy – Episode 5 – Colorado
November 22, 2009 by admin · 25 Comments
SIvideo asked:
Dan Rubenstein, SI.com’s College Football Tour Guy, visits Boulder, Colorado for the Buffs’ upset of OU.
College Football – Washington’s Huskies Don’t Need a Bye Week, They Really Need a Bye Season
November 20, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
There are a lot of loyal Husky fans who are sleepless in Seattle because their team is winless in Seattle. They are simply antsy about taking another hit for the cause because Washington has become arguably the worst team in the nation.
The Huskies might be barking like an angry dog, but their opponents are no longer paying attention. They are not even listening; they are snickering. The once proud, winning tradition built by the immortal Don James has become so unraveled by other hands that it may never be put back together again.
Proof positive came last Saturday (10-4-08) in Tucson (AZ) when Arizona led 48-7 after three quarters and Coach Mike Stoops mercifully let his troops cruise home to a 48-14 victory. The defeat was Washington’s 5th straight this season and 7th straight dating back to last season. Even a winless Army team managed to notch its first victory Saturday by beating Tulane 44-13, leaving only North Texas (also 0-5) and Washington as the only winless Division I-A teams.
Even North Texas has only lost 6 straight dating to its last game a year ago, meaning the Huskies have the longest losing streak in the nation. The Huskies have lost to bitter rival Oregon (44-10), Brigham Young (28-27), Oklahoma (55-14), Stanford (35-28) and now Arizona (48-14). Their two season-ending losses were to bitter in-state rival Washington State (42-35) and Hawaii (35-28).
It is true that, through the 6th week of the season, Washington has played the 2nd toughest schedule among all 119 Division 1-A teams. The problem is that we are not talking about the Tuba City, Montana Buffaloes; we are talking about the once-proud, once-feared Washington Husky football program.
And, yes, the Tuba City, Montana Buffaloes are fictitious; it is just difficult to compare the Huskies to another team because there is no team worse than Washington is right now.
So just how bad are the Huskies? I thought you would never ask. The Huskies are this bad: Jeff Sagarin has them rated108th among 242 possible 1-A and 1-AA teams. There are 10 1-AA teams rated ahead of Washington. They are all the way from Montana (at 106th) to James Madison (at 70th), and include Massachusetts, Jacksonville State, Appalachian State, Weber State, Richmond, New Hampshire, Villanova and McNeese State. This is not exactly a powerhouse lineup.
There are 22 1-A schools rated worse than Washington, the poorest is Idaho (at 183rd) and then North Texas (at 180th). All 10 AA teams and 22 A teams-except North Texas-have done something that Washington has not-win at least one game this season.
Washington Coach Ty Willingham has definitely joined a not-so-famous club that includes Tommy Bowden from Clemson, Kirk Ferentz from Iowa, Phillip Fulmer from Tennessee, Al Groh from Virginia and Greg Robinson from Syracuse. All of them are about to be fired as head coaches.
Willingham will not survive this season. The only real question left is: will he even win a single game?
Washington has a bye this weekend. What the Huskies really need is not a bye week but a bye season.
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Joe Flacco – college football challenge
November 17, 2009 by admin · 25 Comments
chawancut asked:
as requested…
John Gagliardi – Most Wins of Any College Football Coach Ever
November 17, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
John Gagliardi has done something no other human being has ever done. He has coached college football teams to 449 wins in 59 collegiate seasons.
John has only coached at two places in his 59-year college football-coaching career. John’s first assignment was at Carroll College in Helena, Montana during the 1949 to 1952 seasons, winning three conference championships in those four seasons. John Gagliardi’s next venture would bring him east to take on the head coaching position at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. The Johnnies had not won a conference title in 15 years when John Gagliardi arrived to take over the program from legendary coach and charter member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame, Johnny “Blood” McNally. John Gagliardi has remained at Saint John’s for the balance of his career. During his time at Saint John’s Gagliardi has coached the Johnnies to 28 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and 4 National Championships.
Along the way Gagliardi’s teams have a combined record of 449-120-11 during his 59 seasons. His 1993 Saint John’s squad was know as “The Point a Minute Team” setting a national record by averaging 61.5 points per game that season, establishing a scoring record that may never be equaled in college football.
John Gagliardi and the Saint John’s University Johnnies football team has been the subject of many national publications over the years such as USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and Sports Illustrated. The Today Show and CBS News Sunday Morning have also done featured pieces on Gagliardi and the Johnnies for their television shows.
During the 1999 season, Sports Illustrated feature writer Austin Murphy moved his wife and two young children to Collegeville from the San Francisco Bay Area to spend the season with the Johnnies. The result of his time in Stearns County living with and writing about the team was a book named The Sweet Season published by Harper Collins.
One of the main subjects of interest that visiting reporters have when covering Gagliardi and the Johnnies are the principles of “Winning With Nos”
College Football – A Season of 2 Games, One Becomes Abject Heartache, the Other Extreme Joy
November 15, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
This is a story about the life of a college football team’s season in only two games-one was an abject heartache, and the other an extreme joy. The team was the University of Washington this season.
Charles Dickens penned this famous line in his novel “A Tale of Two Cities”-”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .,” and the Husky football players experienced these two events in reverse order.
The Huskies ended their 2008 season with a winless 0-12 record. They opened their 2009 season at home against the then 11th-ranked Louisiana State University Tigers. Having lost 14 straight games over two seasons, the Husky faithful could be forgiven for expecting the worst.
Washington surprised everyone, and especially LSU, be taking the opening kick-off and marching down the field to score a touchdown. The Huskies were fired up under new head coach Steve Sarkisian, who would quickly become known as “Sark” and gain celebrity status among Western Washington’s sporting community.
At the end of the LSU opener, the Huskies won the statistical battle of ball movement but lost the war, 31-23.
In their next game at home against the Idaho Vandals, the Washington Huskies essentially scored on their first 5 possessions to win going away, 42-23, and break their 15-game losing streak.
In their third game of the season, again on their home turf, something just short of a miracle happened-Washington upset then 3rd-ranked Southern California 16-13 on a 22-yard field goal by Erik Folk with just 3 seconds left in the game.
A 2-1 start made the Huskies the talk of Seattle and even the nation because of Southern Cal’s enormous success (at least 11 wins and BCS bowl appearances for 7 consecutive years) and high ranking in the polls.
The Huskies then hit the road for their first away game of the year and ran smack into a rejuvenated Stanford Cardinal team and its bruising 6-foot-1, 237-pound senior running back Toby Gerhart, who rushed for 200 yards and exposed the Huskies’ inept tackling skills.
Washington’s young, talented but inexperienced players could not stop Gerhart, a battering ram who simply ran through and over the Huskies.
Stanford was a huge letdown for the Huskies following their upset win over Southern Cal, and looming ahead was another road trip to South Bend, Indiana to face the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. It is here that our story of a season of two games really begins.
There is no college program in football more storied than Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish have won 11 national championships, have 12 undefeated seasons and 10 other seasons with at most one loss or tie, have produced more All-Americans than any other school, have produced 7 Heisman Trophy winners, and have the coach with the best record in history-Knute Rockne had 105 wins, 12 losses and 5 ties in 13 years while guiding the Fighting Irish to 6 national championships.
Washington players who Googled “Notre Dame” could quickly become intimidated at its legend, lore and tradition. When lining up at middle linebacker on game day, one could easily imagine seeing ghosts coming out of the backfield in search of another conquest.
But this year’s version of the Washington Huskies stayed grounded in reality. As bad as Washington’s tackling was on defense, Notre Dame’s did not appear much better, and a see-saw battle of wills ensued.
With less than a minute left in the 3rd quarter, Notre Dame summoned up its legendary tradition to stop Jake Locker from scoring on two quarterback sneak attempts from the 1-yard line; the Huskies had to give up the ball with the score Washington 24 and Notre Dame 19. Had the Huskies scored, they would have gone up 31-19 and perhaps broken Notre Dame’s back.
It was a bitter pill for Jake Locker-Washington’s most talented and versatile player (Husky coaches have said that Locker could play 7 different positions on the field)-to swallow. He had carried a lousy Washington team virtually on his back for two years, and now his offensive line could not move the Irish even 6 inches back.
Then Chris Polk, the Husky’s surprise redshirt freshman running back, appeared to give the Huskies a 30-22 lead with a 6-yard TD run with 7:07 left, but after a review he was ruled down on the half-yard line. This was a travesty as Polk had scored, but someone forgot to give the replay official a better set of eyes; perhaps he was a closet Notre Dame fan.
On 1st down from the Notre Dame 1-yard line, Polk lost a yard as the Fighting Irish line held. On 2nd down, Locker passed incomplete. On 3rd down and 2, Locker rushed and the Irish line held again. On 4th down, Notre Dame held again but was penalized 1 yard, and Washington had a new set of downs.
On 1st down, Polk rushed again and the Irish held again. On 2nd down, Washington was penalized 5 yards. On the repeat 2nd down, Locker passed for 5 yards to fullback Paul Homer and the Huskies were again 1 yard from scoring. On 3rd down Locker rushed again and again the Irish line held. On 4th down Washington was penalized 5 yards, and on the repeat 4th down, Washington would settle for a field goal, making it 27-22 Huskies.
Incredibly, the Huskies had 6 opportunities to score on the Irish from 2 yards out or less, and the Irish defense, which had not played well all day, held the line. Polk, who was stopped short on two of the attempts, would end the day with 136 yards rushing, a career best for the redshirt freshman.
Notre Dame immediately responded with a touchdown and 2-point conversion to go up 30-27.
With 1:20 left in the game, Locker-the greatest quarterback to put on a jersey at the University of Washington since Marques Tuiasosopo in 2000-calmly marched his Huskies down the field and Erik Folk made a 37-yard field goal to tie the game at 30 and send it into overtime.
Tuiasosopo is the son of former NFL defensive lineman Manu Tuiasosopo, and the older brother of NFL fullback Zach Tuiasosopo and Seattle Mariners’ 3rd baseman Matt Tuiasosopo. Jake Locker is in good company.
Notre Dame quickly scored first in the overtime to go up 37-30, and then the Washington offensive line, which had been 6 plays late in getting it done, allowed Locker to be sacked for 10 yards, and Locker threw three incomplete passes. His last pass, a 33-yarder to the 1-yard line, was pulled in by D’Andre Goodwin, who suffered a concussion when receiving two vicious hits by Notre Dame defenders at the goal line.
The inglorious ending left Locker, Goodwin, the entire team and coaching staff with one big case of an abject heartache. After calmly fighting like the warrior he is, Locker was so crushed and emotional that he could not appear at the post-game press conference.
(Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of a 2-Part Series.)
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