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Message: [QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 2351991, member: 185"] Know that name well. He was coach at Union when we beat them at Hamilton when they came in 7-0 and #2 nation where no one gave us a chance, sound familiar? We were fighting for relevance to come back after a long stretch of struggle (3-20 in the years previous, 12 game losing streak in there). Again Might sound familiar. After knocking them off we finished the year with the first winning season in years and a one loss championship season. This is why I can totally relate to Zaire when he says in that great article that it takes doing "everything " to get a program back. Everything from everybody involved at all times. And here's hoping that "everything" for the Cuse leads to a similar end result or close to it. Bagnoli did it at Union and had an amazing run there, he's the epitome of what you want a college coach to be and I had a similar in game and then post game moment with him and his team as dabo had with us. The parallels with back then (both my team and my rooting team in the Cuse struggling for relevance then and again now), are staggering to me. Beating Nebraska in '84 and hearing about it as my mother told me about it as we walked off the field beating a team we hadn't beaten since 1903 (Williams college that I'm seeing next weekend as they play Hamilton), and being more excited to hear about the Cuse than my own game (that's when I realized how deep my orange blood runs with that feeling). And then getting geared up to play an al Bagnoli coached undefeated team who were on a 12 game winning streak where no one but ourselves believed we could do it. The parallels are spooky. According to my coach Bagnoli nearly single handedly got me national recognition that led to a pro tryout (never would've been noticed back then otherwise). So I know him well, respect him and owe a debt of gratitude to. Gotta love this college game and some of those that populate it. [/QUOTE]

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