Coupla things come to mind:I just randomly came across this on YouTube and thought I'd share. Who else was at this game? I remember sitting near Madei Williams' parents.
My favorite play and first memory of SU football (even though I had been to previous games) was when Cheriehoop and the old man brought me to the Florida game as a five year old and Kirby Dar Dar ran back the opening kick. Loudest I ever experienced the Dome.
He busted his butt to get to that ball fast enough to have a chance to make a play. Troy was under appreciated during his time on the Hill. Got the most out of his ability.I just randomly came across this on YouTube and thought I'd share. Who else was at this game? I remember sitting near Madei Williams' parents.
He busted his butt to get to that ball fast enough to have a chance to make a play. Troy was under appreciated during his time on the Hill.
I just randomly came across this on YouTube and thought I'd share. Who else was at this game? I remember sitting near Madei Williams' parents.
That was a great night for the Orangemen. First year post-McNabb, coming in to a national prime time Thursday night game at 4-1 with just that close loss to Michigan. Hype about how our 2-headed QB situation was actually working well.
Then a week later we played Virginia Tech and the whole season went to .
It was the tale of two seasons. Under today's grounding rules, that Michigan game is probably going to overtime (although he backed up 50 yards so I'm not sure he could throw it that far back to the LOS).
VT and Rutgers that year were probably the 2 worst losses of the Pasqualoni era. Before I'm reminded, I could easily rattle off all the good wins.
Managed to sneak into a bowl, which went the opposite way of our season. Started horrible, their TE had about 8 catches, 400 yards, 2 TDs in the first 5 minutes of the game, and it looked pretty bad. Then he got hurt, and the rest of the game went our way.
Managed to sneak into a bowl, which went the opposite way of our season. Started horrible, their TE had about 8 catches, 400 yards, 2 TDs in the first 5 minutes of the game, and it looked pretty bad. Then he got hurt, and the rest of the game went our way.
And if I remember correctly, the crowd breakdown at the Music City Bowl was about 40K Kentucky fans, and 40 Syracuse fans.
And if I remember correctly, the crowd breakdown at the Music City Bowl was about 40K Kentucky fans, and 40 Syracuse fans.
A crappy bowl, in Tennessee, 2 days after Christmas, for a 6-5 team, that lost to a dreadful Rutgers team to close the season... stunning we traveled so poorly to that one.
Certainly can't disagree with any of that... but didn't we have disappointing fan turnouts at the 1997 Fiesta and 1998 Orange Bowls, as well?
Fiesta had some storm issues that prevented people from going, but I'm not sure that would have mattered much. Add 5,000 people and that place was still going to look all purple. Fiesta Bowl would never be a good place for SU to turn out big #'s.
Orange wasn't bad. Obviously Florida had more people than us, but I thought we had a pretty good sized section. Was hard to tell since we didn't have much to cheer about, but I thought we were loud when the team came onto the field (and then never again).
Certainly can't disagree with any of that... but didn't we have disappointing fan turnouts at the 1997 Fiesta and 1998 Orange Bowls, as well?
All I can remember is him retreating into the endzone throwing off his back foot and having it intercepted. I am pretty sure there where multiple instances where that occurred. :bang: But then against VT he played like the second coming of John Elway when we upset them in the dome.