Realignment, and it's not even close.

(07-02-2014 08:51 PM)Kronke Wrote:  I wasn't around yet for this one, but I can only imagine.



Like many other Coogs, the USM game broke me for a couple days. I can still remember when they blocked a punt and ran it in for a TD, the deafening silence that came over Robertson Stadium. It was weird.

I was there at the game. Be glad you weren't.

(07-02-2014 09:13 PM)Borncoog74 Wrote:  

(07-02-2014 08:51 PM)Kronke Wrote:  I wasn't around yet for this one, but I can only imagine.



Like many other Coogs, the USM game broke me for a couple days. I can still remember when they blocked a punt and ran it in for a TD, the deafening silence that came over Robertson Stadium. It was weird.

I was there at the game. Be glad you weren't.

They still talk about that one here, not a fan of NCSU or UH, and they make me talking about. That is their fall back to everything.

(07-02-2014 09:16 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(07-02-2014 09:13 PM)Borncoog74 Wrote:  

(07-02-2014 08:51 PM)Kronke Wrote:  I wasn't around yet for this one, but I can only imagine.



Like many other Coogs, the USM game broke me for a couple days. I can still remember when they blocked a punt and ran it in for a TD, the deafening silence that came over Robertson Stadium. It was weird.

I was there at the game. Be glad you weren't.

They still talk about that one here, not a fan of NCSU or UH, and they make me talking about. That is their fall back to everything.

it made #1 in espn greatest moment in ncaa history last year..

makes me feel better about it, win or loss its good to be part of history

(07-02-2014 07:43 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  We have so many over the last few years. Temple hailmary ruled out of bounds vs UConn, Buffalo hailmary, Fordham hailmary last year, and of course, UCF bomb to Worton.

By the way, about that Temple out of bounds, the ESPN cameras didn't have the angle. On ESPN it looked like he got his foot down with possession. But a Hartford CBS camera was on the sideline endzone and showed that when his foot stepped down, he was bobbling the ball. That was absolutely the right call by the refs on the field. As for the replay booth, I don't know how they ruled it incomplete after seeing the ESPN replays, because it looked complete.

About the only thing I can think of is that the field ref was adamant the player bobbled the ball and he let the replay booth know it (i.e. the replay booth acknowledged that it didn't have the angle).

(07-02-2014 07:54 PM)MechaKnight Wrote:  OT loss to USF in '08

As brutal as that was, there are four others that stick out worse in my mind.

Losing 10-6 to Auburn in the final minute in 1998.
Losing 23-21 on an obviously homer offensive PI call to UGA the following year as we were driving in the final minute.
Losing the 2005 Hawaii Bowl in OT on a XP that hit the upright.
And of course the 64-12 thrashing by USF in 2007. Totally sobering disgusting loss.

2009 Liberty Bowl. Not only having to deal with the missed field goals but it was the coldest damn game I have ever attended. Believe the wind chills were in the single digits. The excess consumption of adult beverages didn't stand a chance.

UConn

WORST: The Murder of CB Jasper Howard and the losses that followed, but then there was eventual redemption:

The year was 2009, it all started with:

A. October 17th. 38-25 victory over Louisville. That night, Jasper Howard was murdered outside a campus dance.

B. October 24th. WVa fans honored Howard with class. UConn was ahead in the last minute, 24-21, but Noel Devine galloped 80 yards for the game-winning TD, WVa 28-24. Gut-wrenching.

C. October 31st. Things got worse. UConn was again ahead by the score of 24-21. Rutgers ball inside its own 20, 4th down. WR Tim Brown breaks through 2 safeties for game-winning TD with 22 seconds left. Tim Brown was a very good friend of Jasper Howard's, they grew up together in Florida. 28-24 loss. Jaw dropping.

D. November 7. Cincy takes a 30-10 lead into the break, but UConn comes roaring back to make it 40-38 Cincy in the 3rd quarter. Game ends 47-45 as Zach Collaros comes off bench and throws for 450. Heartbreak.

E. UConn breaks through with a victory over Notre Dame at South Bend, despite the referees calling two totally non-existent holding penalties on the Huskies at the goalline. Huskies score a winning TD on 4th down anyway.

F. After blowing out Syracuse and nipping USF, UConn goes down south for a bowl game against the SEC's South Carolina. UConn thoroughly dominates USC for a 20-7 win. Redemption.

Other heartbreaking losses:

1. 2013 UConn goes up by 21-7 over Michigan into the 4th quarter, but can't hold on. Loses 24-21. Very bad game management by Pasqualoni, as he had his QB throw dangerous passes on 3rd and long. Interceptions get Michigan back in the game.

2. 2002 Boston College 24- UConn 16. UConn had this game and blew it.

3. 2009 North Carolina 12- Uconn 10. UConn jumped out to a 10-0 lead, but then, with one minute left in a 10-10 game, UConn's QB rolls out of his end zone and throws a 20 yard strike downfield. BUT, UConn's LT holds in the end zone. Safety for UNC. Ugh. UConn recovers the onside kick but can't get into FG range before time expires.

4. 2003 NC State 31- UConn 24. UConn was actually ahead very late. Gave up 2 scores. Gulp.

5. 2007 Virginia 17- UConn 16. Holy moly, so many missed field goals!!

6. 2008 Rutgers 12- UConn 10. Ridiculous ref bagjob. In 10+ years of coaching, Edsall went crazy on the refs for bogus multiple pass interference calls end of game.

At the time I would say the 2011 loss to FIU. We were coming off a double digit win season, bowl win over Georgia plus had blown out 2 opponents. We fumbled away the game and the season went into the toilet soon after. 6 losses in 10 games of 7 or less points. Silver lining is that it led to Godfrey being replaced by some backup named Bortles.

I think the loss to Texas for the opening game for Brighthouse because I think that loss set us back a few years. If we would have won that game, I think we could have arrived on the national scene a lot earlier.

I was there, the worst loss of my many years as an SMU fan... '80 Holiday Bowl v. BYU. With a win we'd have been AP Top Ten. As it was we finished around 15th I think.

Our first game at Bright House against #6 Texas. We were driving for a possible go-ahead TD or game-tying FG, and we fumble in FG goal. That's how I remember it, at least.

(07-02-2014 07:37 PM)Indiana Bones Wrote:  For ECU it is likely one of the following (in no particular order):

(1) 12-7 loss to National Champion Miami in '83: 2 open WRs ran into each other attempting to catch the game winning pass in the endzone as the clock ran out in the Orange Bowl.

(2) 64-61 OT loss to #21 Marshall in the now defunct 2001 GMAC Bowl: Up 38-8 at the half and then the wheels fell off. Two 2nd-half David Garrard screen passes were intercepted and returned for TDs and ECU's defense was turned into swiss cheese.

(3) 23-21 loss to USM in '86 in DF: USM down 21-20 on their own 16-yard line with only a couple seconds to play heaved a desperation Hail Mary which was caught and advanced all the way to the ECU 10-yard line where WR was tackled. Nearly a second after being down, WR then pitched the ball forward to a teammate that ran the ball into the endzone. However, the official somehow ruled that he wasn't down before pitching the ball forward but did rule the pitch illegal as a 2nd forward pass in one play. Unfortunately, the rules at that time made it only a 5-yard penalty and permitted an un-timed down. If ECU declined it would have resulted in a TD for USM. The extra play allowed USM to kick the game winning field-goal from the 15-yard line. After the kick split the uprights, an ECU fan attacked one of the officials.

(4) 20-17 OT loss to Arkansas in the 2010 Liberty Bowl: ECU came in as the 1st team listed in the others receiving votes column, needing a win to cap off back-to-back C-USA titles with a likely top 20 ranking and a 10-win season. ECU lost the game despite out gaining a quality Arkansas team by 100-yards and not allowing a single 3rd down conversion (0-13).

More disturbing, Arkansas QB Ryan Mallett's only TD pass was a 41-yard bomb where ECU CB should have intercepted but tripped allowing for an easy TD grab for the Razorbacks. The highly touted Mallett went 15-36 passing for only 202 yards and the high powered Arkansas offense was held to 283 total yards.

ECU QB Patrick Pinkney also gift wrapped a TD for Arkansas by throwing it right to their CB for an easy 37-yard return for a TD. ECU kicker, Ben Hartman, who had game winning kicks against Boise State, UNC, and Marshall missed two field goals (one off the uprights) in the final 2 minutes of regulation (either one would have won the game) and in OT Hartman missed another. Arkansas subsequently booted the game winner.

There was an awful joke going around Greenville afterwards that Hartman tried to hang himself....but he couldn't even kick the chair out from under his feet. It's crazy how a guy could kick so many important game winners in his carrier and become the all time points scorer in ECU history, only to be remembered as the biggest goat.

Honorable Mention: 47-46 loss @ #7 FSU in '83, 24-17 loss @ #6 Florida in '83, and a 38-31 loss @ Illinois in '91 (only loss of the season). All 3 of these games had controversial calls at the end that affected the result and the Big Ten officiating crew actually publicly apologized after the Illinois game.

Sorry fellow Pirate supporters for bringing up bad memories but I'm bored and we still have a couple months left before the season begins and we need stuff to talk about.

In the category of heart breaking I would have to put the Liberty Bowl against Arkansas. As an ECU fan of 26yrs, no game left me feeling as sick as this game. It was a chance for ECU to finish the season ranked probably anywhere from #18-25 if we had won. It was also the manner in which we lost. I have never seen ECU dominate a team on the field like it did Arkansas only to lose in OT. Absolutely amazing that Arkansas did not pick up a single 3rd down conversion. I thought Hartman would make the FG at the end of regulation in a walk off win only to watch him miss yet another FG. It would have been awesome to beat a SEC team in the Liberty Bowl with their obnoxious fan base that shows up for those games only to hear the SEC! SEC! chant at the end.

ECU Baseball loss to Tennessee in the Super Regional game at Kinston. We had game 1 of the Super Regional won only to see a kid from Tennessee hit his first home run of the season in the 9th inning. As Baseball fans know as the home team if you win game 1 of the Super Regional it is damn near impossible for the visiting team to come back and win 2 games in a row so that loss most likely cost us our first trip to the College World Series. It was utterly gut wrenching and sickening to see ECU lose that game in the 9th inning.

I would place the Ketucky loss in the Liberty Bowl a distant 3rd but again it was a game we should have won and dominated in the 1st half only to open up the 2nd half with a special teams screw up of allowing a TD on the kick off to let Kentucky back in the game. If we win that game we finish ranked so it would have been great to win Back to Back CUSA Championships, Back to Back Liberty Bowls and finish ranked in the Top 25 Back to Back years.

The GMAC Bowl loss against Marshall was heart breaking even though in the grand scheme of things it was a meaningless crap bowl game that pretty much culminated a season marked by 2nd half collapses and a team that had a ton of potential but failed to deliver.

Watching ECU crap the bed against Marshall last year in the last game sucked. Marshall acted like they were playing for the CUSA East Championship and ECU acted like we were playing in our Spring Game. It would have been awesome to go out of CUSA as Champions and host the CUSA Championship game but we just failed to show up and Marshall to their credit beat the ever living crap out of us.

The loss of 2 seasons of playing football after the Death Penalty.

Still haven't fully recovered, and probably never will. We were a powerhouse.

(07-02-2014 07:37 PM)Indiana Bones Wrote:  For ECU it is likely one of the following (in no particular order):

(1) 12-7 loss to National Champion Miami in '83: 2 open WRs ran into each other attempting to catch the game winning pass in the endzone as the clock ran out in the Orange Bowl.

(2) 64-61 OT loss to #21 Marshall in the now defunct 2001 GMAC Bowl: Up 38-8 at the half and then the wheels fell off. Two 2nd-half David Garrard screen passes were intercepted and returned for TDs and ECU's defense was turned into swiss cheese.

(3) 23-21 loss to USM in '86 in DF: USM down 21-20 on their own 16-yard line with only a couple seconds to play heaved a desperation Hail Mary which was caught and advanced all the way to the ECU 10-yard line where WR was tackled. Nearly a second after being down, WR then pitched the ball forward to a teammate that ran the ball into the endzone. However, the official somehow ruled that he wasn't down before pitching the ball forward but did rule the pitch illegal as a 2nd forward pass in one play. Unfortunately, the rules at that time made it only a 5-yard penalty and permitted an un-timed down. If ECU declined it would have resulted in a TD for USM. The extra play allowed USM to kick the game winning field-goal from the 15-yard line. After the kick split the uprights, an ECU fan attacked one of the officials.

(4) 20-17 OT loss to Arkansas in the 2010 Liberty Bowl: ECU came in as the 1st team listed in the others receiving votes column, needing a win to cap off back-to-back C-USA titles with a likely top 20 ranking and a 10-win season. ECU lost the game despite out gaining a quality Arkansas team by 100-yards and not allowing a single 3rd down conversion (0-13).

More disturbing, Arkansas QB Ryan Mallett's only TD pass was a 41-yard bomb where ECU CB should have intercepted but tripped allowing for an easy TD grab for the Razorbacks. The highly touted Mallett went 15-36 passing for only 202 yards and the high powered Arkansas offense was held to 283 total yards.

ECU QB Patrick Pinkney also gift wrapped a TD for Arkansas by throwing it right to their CB for an easy 37-yard return for a TD. ECU kicker, Ben Hartman, who had game winning kicks against Boise State, UNC, and Marshall missed two field goals (one off the uprights) in the final 2 minutes of regulation (either one would have won the game) and in OT Hartman missed another. Arkansas subsequently booted the game winner.

There was an awful joke going around Greenville afterwards that Hartman tried to hang himself....but he couldn't even kick the chair out from under his feet. It's crazy how a guy could kick so many important game winners in his carrier and become the all time points scorer in ECU history, only to be remembered as the biggest goat.

Honorable Mention: 47-46 loss @ #7 FSU in '83, 24-17 loss @ #6 Florida in '83, and a 38-31 loss @ Illinois in '91 (only loss of the season). All 3 of these games had controversial calls at the end that affected the result and the Big Ten officiating crew actually publicly apologized after the Illinois game.

Sorry fellow Pirate supporters for bringing up bad memories but I'm bored and we still have a couple months left before the season begins and we need stuff to talk about.

I remember watching that GMAC Bowl. Un-effing-believable game!

(07-02-2014 07:41 PM)Indiana Bones Wrote:  Go to 1:18 to see the USM debacle.

You mean time had expired, and they still gave USM one more play because of a penalty THEY committed? That was the rule back then???

The 2009 Loss to #13 Houston was heartbreaking... as was the loss to #5 Boise State that same year.... we had them both at Home and we almost stole both of them. Boise got a very questionable forward pass call on what everyone thought was a fumble, which led to a winning TD. Houston with that miracle kick.... UGH!

(07-02-2014 08:33 PM)FastTheo Wrote:  Liberty Bowl vs Arkansas for me.

Yep same for me. Drove 14+ hours and froze my arse off to watch us blow a game we quite frankly dominated. Hartman takes all the blame for that loss, but it never should have came down to him. Pinkney throwing 2 awful second half interceptions, 1 for a TD and the other that resulted in an easy field goal, were the real causes for that loss. For all the good things he did he's got the stink of blowing 2 Liberty Bowls on his resume. His fumble for a TD in the bowl the year before was a complete turd that gets overshadowed by Hartman's disaster.

Football: For instant anguish, I agree with 4th and 27. Beyond that, as a young person, I recall sitting in the rain to watch us lose to Furman (early to mid '60s, or so). And even worse, we lost to the Quantico Marines. But those were sad due to the state of the program, not due to one heart breaking loss.

Basketball: I doubt anybody alive has to ask about that game for us.

(07-03-2014 08:29 AM)invisiblehand Wrote:  The 2009 Loss to #13 Houston was heartbreaking... as was the loss to #5 Boise State that same year.... we had them both at Home and we almost stole both of them. Boise got a very questionable forward pass call on what everyone thought was a fumble, which led to a winning TD. Houston with that miracle kick.... UGH!

Good times





Obviously the NCST loss in 1983 will probably go down as the worst loss in the history of college athletics... other than that, I'd say the 1978 Cotton Bowl loss to ND 35-34...

Everyone keeps saying losing to USM in 2011 was "heartbreaking", but really, I wasn't heartbroken. USM was a good team, and they simply outplayed us. It happens. 12-0 is hard for anyone to accomplish.

It wasn't a winnable game that we gave away, so I wasn't heartbroken. I was quite at peace with it and thought USM completely deserved the CUSA crown. Maybe I'm just weird like that?

We gave away CUSA titles, or shots at CUSA titles, a couple of times in 2007 (vs ECU) and 2008 (@Rice). I was much more heartbroken by those close losses.