Random YouTube find: 2002 vs. BYU

[Eric15]

-I can't believe this game was exactly half my life ago.
-I remember being out of my mind excited for this game. We started the year just outside the Top 25 after finishing 14th in 2001.
-It's funny seeing Tirico/Kirk/Corso calling a relatively low-profile Thursday night game.
-If I remember correctly, there was a BYU poster named "Throw Deep" that spent literally every day of the Summer of 2002 on this board, and would reply to like every post. He was nice but a bit much.
-4:01 mark, gorgeous reverse to Jamel Riddle. Tirico said "touchdown" one second after the ball was in his hands.
-7:42 mark, we have 4th and goal on their half yard line. Instead of sneaking it with 235 lb RJ behind our big offensive line, Deleone dials up an extremely slow developing TE throwback play. It was actually designed perfectly, but Lenny Cusumano proceeds to drop a pass that the Dome Knitter pulls in 75% of the time.
-Unfortunately, BYU's complex passing attack was just too much for us.

 

[orangenauburn]

We got blown out in the fourth. Conditioning?

They put up almost 700 yards - yikes!

It was a good game until fourth, per stats

 

[sutomcat]

-I can't believe this game was exactly half my life ago.
-I remember being out of my mind excited for this game. We started the year just outside the Top 25 after finishing 14th in 2001.
-It's funny seeing Tirico/Kirk/Corso calling a relatively low-profile Thursday night game.
-If I remember correctly, there was a BYU poster named "Throw Deep" that spent literally every day of the Summer of 2002 on this board, and would reply to like every post. He was nice but a bit much.
-4:01 mark, gorgeous reverse to Jamel Riddle. Tirico said "touchdown" one second after the ball was in his hands.
-7:42 mark, we have 4th and goal on their half yard line. Instead of sneaking it with 235 lb RJ behind our big offensive line, Deleone dials up an extremely slow developing TE throwback play. It was actually designed perfectly, but Lenny Cusumano proceeds to drop a pass that the Dome Knitter pulls in 75% of the time.
-Unfortunately, BYU's complex passing attack was just too much for us.

Coach Beck would enroll at BYU in 2004. Cosch Anae was coaching the OL at Texas Tech then….

 

[Dinkyspond]

If not for the points off turnovers we might have lost 60-0. The simultaneous fumble call was questionable. We score on the TD throwback play snd get a score off that simultaneous fumble we might steal that game although getting dominated. 700 yards given up, yikes! With all that said I have zero recollection of that game. Also, Adam Terry, SYR radio analyst is in that game on our oline. Thanks for the clip and a good use of my time for 20 minutes. Picturesque background with the mountains at the BYU stadium.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

We got blown out in the fourth. Conditioning?

They put up almost 700 yards - yikes!

It was a good game until fourth, per stats

Hard to get the conditioning right for altitude.

Many a visiting program hits the wall in the lighter air.

 

[kirbivore]

First game without Freeney, right? Much tougher to play defense when the QB isn't running for his life after 2 seconds.

 

[orangenauburn]

Hard to get the conditioning right for altitude.

Many a visiting program hits the wall in the lighter air.

Right. Plus being first game of season. I would have imagined they'd have tried to do ungodly amounts of conditioning drills in the lead up

 

[djorange1989]

That 2002 defense was pretty putrid. Beyond the Va Tech game it was a season to forget. BYU was bad that year too. That being said it is pretty damn cool seeing random games like this one!

 

[orangefog]

I can't watch any game we lose. It sucks the first time around over the past 40 years.

 

[A Clockwork Orange]

-I can't believe this game was exactly half my life ago.
-I remember being out of my mind excited for this game. We started the year just outside the Top 25 after finishing 14th in 2001.
-It's funny seeing Tirico/Kirk/Corso calling a relatively low-profile Thursday night game.
-If I remember correctly, there was a BYU poster named "Throw Deep" that spent literally every day of the Summer of 2002 on this board, and would reply to like every post. He was nice but a bit much.
-4:01 mark, gorgeous reverse to Jamel Riddle. Tirico said "touchdown" one second after the ball was in his hands.
-7:42 mark, we have 4th and goal on their half yard line. Instead of sneaking it with 235 lb RJ behind our big offensive line, Deleone dials up an extremely slow developing TE throwback play. It was actually designed perfectly, but Lenny Cusumano proceeds to drop a pass that the Dome Knitter pulls in 75% of the time.
-Unfortunately, BYU's complex passing attack was just too much for us.

The only thing I remember about that game was the botched tight-end throwback. That is the only time I ever remember that play not working.

 

[SWC75]

First play from scrimmage of the season: RJ throws at an open wide-out but the ball doesn't get there and buries itself into the ground about halfway there. We go on to a 4-8 season after a 1-6 start to end our streak of 15 straight winning seasons. It also marked the turn-around of the SU-Pitt series. We'd beaten Pitt 11 times in a row and had been 16-1-1 since 1984: since then we are 3-17. I remember falling behind them 3-48 in the Dome and wondering "What is happening here?" (We managed to make it 'respectable' at 24-48.)

 

[kirbivore]

First play from scrimmage of the season: RJ throws at an open wide-out but the ball doesn't get there and buries itself into the ground about halfway there. We go on to a 4-8 season after a 1-6 start to end our streak of 15 straight winning seasons. It also marked the turn-around of the SU-Pitt series. We'd beaten Pitt 11 times in a row and had been 16-1-1 since 1984: since then we are 3-17. I remember falling behind them 3-48 in the Dome and wondering "What is happening here?" (We managed to make it 'respectable' at 24-48.)

Also lost to Temple that year for the first time in quite awhile.

 

[OrangeDW]

First week away at college. I’m watching the game. Some kids that I’d met that week come down to my room and ask if I want to play pool. Or ping pong. Or something like that. I say “nah, I’m watching the game.” They never bothered me with some nonsense like that ever again.

 

[orlandoorange]

ORANGEMEN

 

[dollarbill44]

First play from scrimmage of the season: RJ throws at an open wide-out but the ball doesn't get there and buries itself into the ground about halfway there. We go on to a 4-8 season after a 1-6 start to end our streak of 15 straight winning seasons. It also marked the turn-around of the SU-Pitt series. We'd beaten Pitt 11 times in a row and had been 16-1-1 since 1984: since then we are 3-17. I remember falling behind them 3-48 in the Dome and wondering "What is happening here?" (We managed to make it 'respectable' at 24-48.)

That Pitt game was awful. It could have been whatever score they wanted it to be, but they took their foot off the pedal early in the 3rd. I remember it as the first time I openly questioned the direction of the program.

 

[HOFCeluck]

I thought that BYU team was legit after that loss. Only ….not.

A wretched season save for one game to be sure. Basketball team had a decent year though so that evens it out I guess,

 

[OrangeDW]

I thought Damien Rhodes was going to be an all time great after that game.

Ended up being a good player who was slowed by injuries one year and a horrific OL/offense/coach as a senior, but he looked potentially special early on as a freshman.

 

[sufandu]

I thought Damien Rhodes was going to be an all time great after that game.

Ended up being a good player who was slowed by injuries one year and a horrific OL/offense/coach as a senior, but he looked potentially special early on as a freshman.

I never saw it with Rhodes, at least not as an every down RB. I always thought he ran too high and got tripped up easily. Maybe I was spoiled by Reyes at that point and had too high of expectations for the local stud. I always thought it would've been interesting to see him at WR.