(06-24-2021 12:25 AM)holybovine Wrote:  

(06-23-2021 01:24 PM)EMU 83 Wrote:  Finally joined the group, I have enjoying the EMU banter for a couple of years and finally decided to join in.

I started undergrad in 1977 and did my bachelor and Master degrees at our beloved institution. Here are some of my top sports memories;

1. Beating Penn State to get into Sweet 16. (Watched at The Spaghetti Bender)
2. California Bowl Win (Watched on T.V. with a couple of EMU brothers
3. Beating Duke in NCAA tournament
4. The Quick Lube Bowl at Ford Field. I have never seen a EMU football game as loud or rocking as that! Winning it would have been better but we had a great time!

Honorable mentions, not in any order: Any game Earl played in at Bowen, almost beating #1 Depaul at Bowen, Seeing Larry Bird playing at Bowen. Any time we beat Central in football, Beating Purdue, Rutgers, and Illinois in consecutive years in football, beating Michigan in basketball when I was in undergrad, plus the other two times we beat them, and lastly, any tailgate with my buddies at Rynearson.

Anyone else want to rank their top choices?

Nice list! Just to add my few:

1) We beat UNLV in our 1995 home opener 51-6. We had 25K in Rynearson that day, and it was our attendance record for many years. I was a freshman, and it was the first time I had seen EMU in Ypsilanti. I was mesmerized by Batch and Rasnick — I thought we were beginning a football renaissance! I’ll never forget how great I felt after that game. Rick Rasnick will always hold a special place in my heart.

2) Watching EMU beat Wyoming in 2016. Very, very exciting game, and I was thrilled that I decided to fly up from Texas to see it. Before the game, I really didn’t think we would win; I was aware of how good Josh Allen and Brian Hill were. Todd Porter was given far too much slack, throwing 4 INTs as Creighton tried to figure out new ways to keep Roback on the bench. Nonetheless, Roback eventually led them back to victory. At 3-1 after the win, I knew that was the year we would be bowling again.