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Message: [QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 5527040, member: 185"] few years, more like 40 years! When we were there they killed us first 3 years including the dial a score game. What's "dial a score" you ask? Our very old school coach had shall I say unique attitudes toward motivation and thought he'd “motivate” us with an old fashioned phone dial on the front of the scouting report packet. In the circles where the numbers were he had score predictions, all blowouts by them, one was 50-0 which was prescient. When we were getting smoked they took all of us starters out so I was pissed especially since this dirty team ran a fake punt up 43-0. So when the punter ran up the sideline by me I "accidently" stepped out onto on the field from the sideline crushing him. Oops. I gotta get that old film as I hear it's pretty funny. Not surprisingly the coach was fired not long after this game! Anyway, finally we beat them, senior year, our qb threw for 500 yards, I had 25 tackles, bunch of sacks, etc. and we still didn’t blow them out. The Qb was a borderline div. 1 kid, FCS for sure, who fell between the cracks. Today little to no chance he nor players like him go undiscovered . Dude Still holds records to this day as do a few of us. School did pretty well after that against them in the 90's too as the school invested heavily in us and the sport for a while, I mean for Gods sake they let a bunch of us public school kids in which is why we got good after 28 losing seasons in a row getting pummeled with a 3-24 record until the my last year going 7-1-1 beating the #2 nationally ranked team in the last game. I think they're now on a similar years long losing non winning seasons streak, this since then there's too much going against the school and league to be as good as it once was. For example $85,000 year is too expensive for most football playing kids even with aid/scholarship not called scholarships but they gave us anyway, head trauma issues turned too many "smart" kids off the sport so there's not as many "smart" kids playing, the schools too selective these days in admissions....etc. So getting exceptional again is likely not in the cards especially as they do things differently than their peer schools, but when they're at least competitive like it's looking this year, it's still a hoot going and taking in game days. [/QUOTE]

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