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Message: [QUOTE="Orangeyes, post: 201389, member: 34"] In 2002 Robin led us on a last minute scoring drive. He hit Jared Jones with a TD pass with 30 seconds left. Barber's kick hit the left upright and over 17,000 delirious Temple fans rejoiced. Both teams entered the game with identical 1-4 records. Even with Super Bowel hero David Tyree in the lineup we couldn't pull off a miracle. He did catch a 17 yard pass in that final drive. Jamel Riddle had a 60 yard catch and run for our other TD. That was Temple's first win against us since 1983. Little did we know that that season would begin the downward spiral of the football program which still has not yet fully recovered. SU had not started off 1 and 5 in the sixteen previous seasons. As I recall Riddle was ruled ineligible for the his senior season after a lengthy wait for word from the NCAA. Such a shame for a program which was desperate for talent. On the day he had nine catches for 145 yards, a career high and 4 punt returns for 43 yards. That 2004 game was frustrating as hell. We made Washington look like an All American as he kept running the QB draw and we never made an adjustment. (I just threw something across the room) Why did you have to bring that up?;) They beat us 34-24 and Washington carried the ball 29 times for 184 yards and three TD's he was 10 for 19 passing with one TD. That was the beginning of the Perry Patterson era. PP hooked up with converted db Steve Gregory 7 times for 87 yards. Diamond Ferri played offense, defense and special teams. Something he would do again the next week as he almost single handidly destroyed the Beagles only BCS bowl hope. For that we should take up a collection and send it to the young man. As far as Temple beating Va Tech they had a very close game against them in 2003 but fell short of the upset losing 23-24, that's the last the two have played. Temple's last win over VPI was in 1998 when they won on the road 28-24. [/QUOTE]

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