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Re: Some thoughts...week #1

Postby Dossenator » Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:29 pm

An average Arkansas team last year held Texas to 50 total yards of offense in the Texas Bowl (most of those yards came on Texas' last possession). They look to be as bad this year. My prediction is Strong will not be their coach next year, and with more performances like their last two he may not finish this season.

I almost feel sorry for them (not really though). :D
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Re: Some thoughts...week #1

Postby billybud » Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:19 am

Eric wrote:Yeah I mean 45 and windy in November with cloud cover isn't a picnic. I think the general point still stands.


While I have sat through a game at 16 degrees, and a game in Dallas when it was sleeting (before the dome), the coldest I have ever been was at the '82 Gator Bowl. It rained a monsoon all night and was in the 40's with a high wind whipping in off of the river.

To this day, us old Nole and WVU fans reminisce on the boards about the miserable conditions of this game. We were all soaked and frozen for near four hours.

But saying that, it is the heat of the early season day games in Tallahassee that I can no longer endure....this Saturday...it will probably be 100 or more in the stadium seats...and being bowled in, no breeze. And you can count on a humidity level that will almost choke you in that heat. Last year, the early September game had 97 degrees in Tallahassee and about ten degrees higher on the field.
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Re: Some thoughts...week #1

Postby Spence » Tue Sep 08, 2015 11:30 am

billybud wrote:
Eric wrote:Yeah I mean 45 and windy in November with cloud cover isn't a picnic. I think the general point still stands.


While I have sat through a game at 16 degrees, and a game in Dallas when it was sleeting (before the dome), the coldest I have ever been was at the '82 Gator Bowl. It rained a monsoon all night and was in the 40's with a high wind whipping in off of the river.

To this day, us old Nole and WVU fans reminisce on the boards about the miserable conditions of this game. We were all soaked and frozen for near four hours.

But saying that, it is the heat of the early season day games in Tallahassee that I can no longer endure....this Saturday...it will probably be 100 or more in the stadium seats...and being bowled in, no breeze. And you can count on a humidity level that will almost choke you in that heat. Last year, the early September game had 97 degrees in Tallahassee and about ten degrees higher on the field.


The heat inland in Florida from the humidity can be unbearable. We were in Orlando in May a few years back and the heat was just pressing down on you. We have some of that in August in Ohio, but it doesn't last day after day after day, like in Florida. And it only lasts for about a month. This year we haven't had anything close. It has been relatively mild all summer.
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Re: Some thoughts...week #1

Postby Eric » Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:00 pm

Dossenator wrote:An average Arkansas team last year held Texas to 50 total yards of offense in the Texas Bowl (most of those yards came on Texas' last possession). They look to be as bad this year. My prediction is Strong will not be their coach next year, and with more performances like their last two he may not finish this season.

I almost feel sorry for them (not really though). :D



I like a lot of upsets this week, and while this is probably wrong and I'm going way out on a limb here, I really do think Rice can beat Texas. When your offense is that pitiful, you can lose to anybody on any given day. Granted Texas' athletes on offense will probably run all over Rice, but if they are really dejected and going through the motions, this could be a close, low-scoring game and it only takes a break or two to swing an outcome in a completely different direction.
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Re: Some thoughts...week #1

Postby Derek » Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:42 pm

Dossenator wrote:An average Arkansas team last year held Texas to 50 total yards of offense in the Texas Bowl (most of those yards came on Texas' last possession). They look to be as bad this year. My prediction is Strong will not be their coach next year, and with more performances like their last two he may not finish this season.

I almost feel sorry for them (not really though). :D


Well, if you're right, they'll only make things worse. They are going the way of Tenn if they fire him this soon IMO. They fired Fulmer to quickly and went through 2 coaches in a few years (one of them being one of the worst in the business and I refuse to mention his name).

Now Fulmer is back on the field and offering advice to Jones (no joke).
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Re: Some thoughts...week #1

Postby Dossenator » Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:51 pm

Derek wrote:
Dossenator wrote:An average Arkansas team last year held Texas to 50 total yards of offense in the Texas Bowl (most of those yards came on Texas' last possession). They look to be as bad this year. My prediction is Strong will not be their coach next year, and with more performances like their last two he may not finish this season.

I almost feel sorry for them (not really though). :D


Well, if you're right, they'll only make things worse. They are going the way of Tenn if they fire him this soon IMO. They fired Fulmer to quickly and went through 2 coaches in a few years (one of them being one of the worst in the business and I refuse to mention his name).

Now Fulmer is back on the field and offering advice to Jones (no joke).


I have heard a couple reports that the big boosters are not happy with Strong. And their message boards are blowing up. If you need a little light reading before bed just head on over to the Shaggy Bevo forum. Many are calling for his head. And it is quite entertaining. I do feel their pain (end of the Nutt era and the Petrino in the ditch followed by the clown John L Smith).
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Re: Some thoughts...week #1

Postby billybud » Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:55 am

Eric wrote:Yeah I mean 45 and windy in November with cloud cover isn't a picnic. I think the general point still stands.


The coldest that I have been at a game, still a legendary mark among some of us old Nole and WVU fans (on the boards, we attendees call ourselves Les Miserables), was at the 1982 Gator Bowl. It rained a monsoon all night while the temperature was in the low 40's and the wind was whipping in from the river.

The ball had to be held down by the officials because it would float off of the mark. The players on the sidelines had water over their ankles.

WVU's Jeff Hostetler couldn't pass in the monsoon...and FSU's RB, Allen could splash faster than the defenders. He went 95 yards on a run and the paper said that with a few more more yards he would have set a world free style record.

The 1992 Cotton Bowl (pre dome) in Dallas was cold...rain and sleet. The total of 10 fumbles in the game was an index of the misery.
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