Rraalph 3000
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Would have been better off kneeling the ball 3 times rather than drop back & pass for negaitve 30....crap, you don't take the 5 yard penalty and Rouen kicks it in the end zone even
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CU vs. Notre Dame 1991 (aka National Champs baby!) on at 7 pm MDT
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Would have been better off kneeling the ball 3 times rather than drop back & pass for negaitve 30....crap, you don't take the 5 yard penalty and Rouen kicks it in the end zone even
Junction
Club Member
I was hoping for special bonus footage of the hypocritical asswipe Tom Osborne voting CU way down on his final ballot. **** that mother****er. :sad2:
buffsyko
Club Member
This from a guy who posts 3, 000 times on recruiting day..
Yeah, what a jerk,being ticked about losing a National championship after we dominated the first half and scored zero points. That's called being a fan dooshbag. Ask boulder buff about auburn-alabama and see if people there still get irked over games 10-15-20 years ago.......
buffsyko
Club Member
And who was the O-COORDINATOR for this game? That's right Barnett.
buffsyko
Club Member
The one time Tom Rouen can't boom it out of the end zone.
Two clips on the play but csu and fusker fans say their were none. :lol:
Unleash Hell
Well-Known Member
The thing that gets me every time I see that our last drive was we were controlling the clock by just doing what we did late in games all year, play smashmouth football, wearing them out and runnign out the clock. Hemmingway was running right down the Irish throats and then we decide to get fancy and try to throw. :wow:
lamb & fuskers are tools...
jjbuffs13
Well-Known Member
They showed a stat during the game that stated CJ was the first QB since 1984 to complete more than 10 passes in a game, I dont understand why we weren't throwing the ball more :huh:
That sounds like the same problem we've had the past decade, if somethings really working (ie: running down their throats) lets try something else
MontanaBuff
Well-Known Member
I try and get excited when the '91 Orange Bowl comes on, but it's hard to do. The 10-9 game was just an imperfect way to end an imperfect season.
No team with more than one loss had (to that point) ever won a title.
"Fifth down" hung over the entire game like a black cloud.
No domination (did you see the stat that every other New Year's day game that day was a blowout? An average of 28 points - including Nebraska's lay down to Georgia Tech). A 10-9 game doesn't have many highlights.
The punt return. Even when it looked like the Buffs were going to be able to celebrate, there was one last controversy.
I can remember getting up early the next day, waiting for the polls to come out. The AP poll came out in the morning, but I didn't find out about the coaches' poll until that night after work. Instead of being able to celebrate, it was a let down.
The Buffs - and their fans - deserve a clear-cut, unshared, unapologetic championship.
I'm ready. Practice starts a month from today. Go Buffs! :thumbsup:
No team with more than one loss had (to that point) ever won a title.
"Fifth down" hung over the entire game like a black cloud.
No domination (did you see the stat that every other New Year's day game that day was a blowout? An average of 28 points - including Nebraska's lay down to Georgia Tech). A 10-9 game doesn't have many highlights.
The punt return. Even when it looked like the Buffs were going to be able to celebrate, there was one last controversy.
I can remember getting up early the next day, waiting for the polls to come out. The AP poll came out in the morning, but I didn't find out about the coaches' poll until that night after work. Instead of being able to celebrate, it was a let down.
The Buffs - and their fans - deserve a clear-cut, unshared, unapologetic championship.
I'm ready. Practice starts a month from today. Go Buffs! :thumbsup:
Winner!! Whenever that game comes on or is mentioned that's the first thing that comes to my mind, not the clip. I didn't catch the replay last night but from what I recall, here's my recollection: Tough game where points are at a premium and we get the ball around our own 20 with something like 10-12 minutes left, and we proceed to methodically move the ball on the ground churning out first downs and more importantly running down the clock. Then we get down to about the 20 (maybe even inside the 20), at which point we're in FG range, worst case. Then the debacle starts - between the penalties and the sacks we got backed up to like the 45 yard line!!
I distinctly remember on 1st or 2nd down where we take a deep sack and even Walsh comes out states "Strange call...". Once we got that first down at around the 20, the play-calling should've been reduced to 3 line smashes. And with the way we had been moving the ball, that may very well have got us into the end zone!!!!
BuffNut99
Club Member
On a different note, the Big 10 Network showed CU-Illinois 1990 again last night. I like that they're digging deep, but how about showing: CU-Illinois 1989, CU-Michigan 1994, CU-Iowa 1988/1992, CU-Minnesota 1991/1992, CU-Wisconsin 1994/1995...
Wow, we played the Big 10 alot back then.
Wow, we played the Big 10 alot back then.
NashBuff
CSU Knob-Slobberer
Let's not forget Mizzou putting sand on their OmniTurf to give the kitties a slippery homefield advantage because they sucked at the time.
BuffLuke80
Well-Known Member
It didnt come on till 11 here in NM so it just got over with about 30 minutes ago. I get the same unsatisfied feeling about that game as others here. GB's play calling was horrible. Hemmingway was a stud, we need a fb like that now. What happened to him? He was NFL material, no doubt. Anybody know? It was a clip, would he have made the tackle? Who knows? It wasnt like he was 20 yards from the ball and the guy was an all big 8 safety so he probably knows how to tackle. All I got to say is scoreboard, F!ck notre dame.
aik
Well-Known Member
This.
BuffNut99
Club Member
I know that was on the Cleveland Browns for some time, although I don't think he ever accumulated stats or played in a game, then he went on to Arena ball for a year.
dply
Doble hoja
Dang it Cleveland leave our fullbacks alone.
Unleash Hell
Well-Known Member
Whenever we have had a real dominant running game, we have had a good fullback. I still think we missed Hemmingway in a big way in the '90 Orange bowl when Mac suspended him. We could have used him in several situations (1st and goal from the 1=4 and out) to name one. That game could have had a different outcome had he been there.
Junction
Club Member
I predict you will be getting rep from Buff 30 in the very near future.... :thumbsup:
BuffLuke80
Well-Known Member
Damn that team was big everywhere except for qb and tb. Our safeties looked like Atwater lol. There was alot of talent on that team and the 90 team. IMHO, the 1994 team was the best Ive seen since ive been watching, maybe not on D tho.
Unleash Hell
Well-Known Member
'94 was most talented, but I bet the '89 team could have given the '94 team a run for the money. Before the Nebraska game in '89, no team had finished within 17 points of CU.
i believe another was on a fake FG. i believe his replacement ran the wrong route or something. i believe the story is that he put a hole in the wall with his fist when he watched the play. had the route been run properly, the story goes it would have been a easy TD.
or, maybe im just making that up?
Unleash Hell
Well-Known Member
I know GH was a good recieving FB and caught several short TD passes in the '89 season. On the play you described, Jeff Cambell (who was the holder) was supposed to throw to someone, but no one was open so Soupy ran and was stopped. Your story fits well with that. I bet GH was supposed to be the guy to catch it.
buffsyko
Club Member
89 and 90 had better defenses. Offenses were great, would have been interesting to see who won the qb battle.
We had an attitude back then and guys were nasty and just wanted to beat the living hell out of you. They took it to heart when somebody scored on them and came out even nastier.
Would like to see that attitude back again. Macs teams were filled with very good asst. coaches.
BuffNut99
Club Member
Interesting - I just watched this game and something pretty amazing almost happened. With about 11 minutes left, CU has a field goal attempt blocked. The blocked ball careens toward the end zone, and a Notre Dame defender, similar to Leon Lett in the snow on Thanksgiving, runs after the ball and touches it in the end zone. A CU player tries to pounce on it but it goes out of the back of the end zone. Almost 17-9 right there, and perhaps the game plays out differently such as there is no split NC.