I love night game's there's nothing like Tiger Stadium on a saturday night when an sec foe come's to town. There's no comparsion in the atmosphere of SEC day games n night games. One quick statement. How many goalpost have fell in the day time ? 0
. "One quick statement. How many goalpost have fell in the day time ? 0 ** Technically, you're right, LSUweezie, but the Alabama game in 2000 was a 2:30 start...The sun went down at the end of the 3rd quarter, and the goalpost came down at the end of the 4th quarter (when it was dark...):geaux:
We need some redemption over UGA after that 28-27 coming out party for Quincy Carter. Man that was awful.
28-27 game That 28-27 game was awesome in every aspect except the final score. We had Faulk pumping up the Saturday night Tiger Stadium crowd against a good Georgia team and the defense holding Georgia to only 7 2nd half points (I think). That one TD was thrown to Ryan Clark (who froze) at the endzone in front of the student section. The Georgia WR stepped right in front and got the TD. We were in the top 10 before that game and Georgia was in the top 25. Dinardo decided to kick a FG with only a couple minutes left. It could've been a good decision if we stop them but they had that lucky catch on 3rd and long. If we win that game, the season could've been a lot better. But then the perfect timing with Saban may have never occurred so I'm not complaining. I did enough of that in 1998-99.
That game was the week after Hurricane Georges. Like idiots, my friends and I left the Idaho game in the 2nd quarter to return to New Orleans after Dan Borne announced that I-10 was closed between B.R. and Gonzales (we had a great hurricane party weekend, though). Georges must have brought some bad luck to the Tigers, because that UGA one point loss was just the beginning of a bunch of bad luck that year. The next week we lost in Gainesville, 22-10, in a game that was closer than the score and one in which we led (10-6, I believe) at half. We had an INT returned for a TD that was called back. The next week saw Tim Couch lead a last second drive, including a 70+ yard end around, to win on a last second field goal, 39-36. Next we blew out Miss. St., of course. We lost in OT the next week in Oxford when Larry Foster (I think) dropped a would-be TD pass which would have tied it on 4th down. Then came the last minute comeback by Bama, including the fluke on-sides kick. After a week off, we lose by 3 in South Bend after Craig Nall's last second pass was tipped away. Arkansas blew us out on the day after Thanksgiving to end a miserable 1-7 run to end a 4-7 season. Damn Hurricane Georges!!!
That was a rough, rough stretch of games. I remember that Bama d-back just taking the ball away from Abram Booty in the endzone like candy from a baby...Ugh. Rough year. Didn't the downfall all start during the UGA game with an illegal motion penalty? Somebody on one of these boards traced it back to that. We had the ball first and goal on the UGA 8 (or around there) then got penalized several times and lost yardage back to around the 30 and missed a field goal, then UGA took over and pretty much took over the game? I remember Booger McFarland coming within about a nanosecond of decking Quincy Carter on one of those 3rd down throws during UGA's last drive, too. What a heartbreaker that was.
If you think of LSU football as a stock, its price reached its peak under Dinardo the night of the '97 Florida game. At that point, his teams had gone 7-4-1, 10-2 and 5-1 with a win over top-ranked, defending national champion Florida. Expectations for "future earnings" were very high, but, as we all know, this was nothing more than "irrational exuberance." The price fell a bit the next week with the Ole Miss loss, bounced back a little in the next few weeks only to fall again with the lethargic effort against Nortre Dame, then rise again with the Indy Bowl win and the start of the 1998 season. Again, expectations for future earnings were high, but the stock started to slip in early '98 with the close call and 4th quarter come back to beat Houston. Investors became concerned with the team's defense, and the stock slid a bit despite a high ranking and continued wins. It fell a bit after the UGA loss, then went into a free fall in the next several weeks. It slid into the penny stock area by the end of the '99 season, only to rise again with the ouster of the CEO. Dinardo's record up to and including the '97 Florida game was 22-7-1. His post-Florida record was 10-17. Think that was a turning point?
those are the 2 things I remember most about that game. I think your right that the fall start at the goal line was the beginning of the downfall. And Booger's play was awesome, Q just made the best pass he has ever made in his life. I remember the next week here in BR on Jimmy Ott's radio show he said over and over "The best is yet to come" after that game......friggin idiot. Little did he know it was the beginning of the end.
