SWC75
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- It’s too perfect. We gain revenge on Louisville and the whole world watches us take on Notre Dame with game day there….Something bad will happen and Louisville is the only team that can take advantage of it.
- Look at the last two years: points - Syracuse 38 Louisville 218 and yardage – Syracuse 749 Louisville 1572. You don’t turn that completely around in one year. Louisville is dormant, not dead. They might just decide to win this game. They have enough guys left over from their previous teams to do it. Like Dino says, their roster is full of 4 and 5 stars guys we wish we had.
- Everybody wants a big win, similar to Donovan McNabb’s last home game, when we demolished the Miami Hurricanes after years of beatings from them, 66-13. The team will feel the pressure to deliver, to make it a perfect day. If we get off to a strong start, that could happen. But if we don’t or if we relax, then things could get hard, the visitors could gain home and the pressure could build up.
- August 30, 1997. NC State is coming off a 3-8 year in which they lost to Virginia 14-62. I watched that game when I was visiting my parents in North Carolina. State looked like the worst team I’d ever seen, comically bad. Virginia could have scored 100 points if they’d wanted to. We’d just blown out Wisconsin 34-0 in the kick-off classic. It was State’s opener. I sat in the stands telling myself that I could watch this game with none of the normal stress – we were going to be able win as we pleased, by whatever score we felt like. It was very much like this year’s Pitt game. We easily jumped out to a 14-0 lead. Then whatever could go wrong did go wrong. We could still have won at the end of regulation. All we needed was a chip-shot field goal. But a freshman running back, (who would go on to a very productive career), decided to get some glory and stick the ball out over the plane of the goal line. It got knocked away before it got there and State recovers. Overtime. We scored in the top of the first and conventionally kicked the extra point. They scored in the bottom of the first. We had the personnel for a kick in but they decided to go for two. Their receiver, (Torrey Holt?), got loose in the corner of the end zone and we lost 31-32, the first of three straight losses. That was in the afternoon. That night I went to the last Skychiefs game of the season, (their first in the new ballpark), and witnessed a 2-10 drubbing. I got out to the parking lot and found I’d left my lights and the battery was dead. I finally got home and flipped on the TV. I didn’t care what was on, as long as it had nothing to do with sports. There had been an accident in Paris…..I went to bed with only one source of happiness: that the day was finally coming to an end. From that day forward, I have never cared how much we win by, as long as we win.
- Look at the last two years: points - Syracuse 38 Louisville 218 and yardage – Syracuse 749 Louisville 1572. You don’t turn that completely around in one year. Louisville is dormant, not dead. They might just decide to win this game. They have enough guys left over from their previous teams to do it. Like Dino says, their roster is full of 4 and 5 stars guys we wish we had.
- Everybody wants a big win, similar to Donovan McNabb’s last home game, when we demolished the Miami Hurricanes after years of beatings from them, 66-13. The team will feel the pressure to deliver, to make it a perfect day. If we get off to a strong start, that could happen. But if we don’t or if we relax, then things could get hard, the visitors could gain home and the pressure could build up.
- August 30, 1997. NC State is coming off a 3-8 year in which they lost to Virginia 14-62. I watched that game when I was visiting my parents in North Carolina. State looked like the worst team I’d ever seen, comically bad. Virginia could have scored 100 points if they’d wanted to. We’d just blown out Wisconsin 34-0 in the kick-off classic. It was State’s opener. I sat in the stands telling myself that I could watch this game with none of the normal stress – we were going to be able win as we pleased, by whatever score we felt like. It was very much like this year’s Pitt game. We easily jumped out to a 14-0 lead. Then whatever could go wrong did go wrong. We could still have won at the end of regulation. All we needed was a chip-shot field goal. But a freshman running back, (who would go on to a very productive career), decided to get some glory and stick the ball out over the plane of the goal line. It got knocked away before it got there and State recovers. Overtime. We scored in the top of the first and conventionally kicked the extra point. They scored in the bottom of the first. We had the personnel for a kick in but they decided to go for two. Their receiver, (Torrey Holt?), got loose in the corner of the end zone and we lost 31-32, the first of three straight losses. That was in the afternoon. That night I went to the last Skychiefs game of the season, (their first in the new ballpark), and witnessed a 2-10 drubbing. I got out to the parking lot and found I’d left my lights and the battery was dead. I finally got home and flipped on the TV. I didn’t care what was on, as long as it had nothing to do with sports. There had been an accident in Paris…..I went to bed with only one source of happiness: that the day was finally coming to an end. From that day forward, I have never cared how much we win by, as long as we win.
