(11-27-2013 09:16 AM)TigerSeth Wrote: 1996 win over UT is easily our biggest win IMO.
An NCAA Finals trumps any football game Memphis has ever played...if we make a BCS level bowl (20 million+) that would change things.
You're just flat out wrong, and that kind of thinking is why there is now a chasm between us and Louisville where there once was none.
If you think a losing football team, with a coach we fired, beating 1 ranked UT team is the same as the $$$ and exposure that comes with an NCAA Finals...you're just flat crazy.
(11-27-2013 08:03 AM)ShoreBuc Wrote: I would say based on the ramifications of the game it would be the 1991 Peach Bowl vs #21 NCST.
It was a sold out Peach Bowl and the last outdoor game in the Peach Bowl history at Fulton County Stadium. It was a huge rivalry game vs NCST who stopped playing us after we defeated them in Raleigh and tore down their goalpost in 1987. This was a game where NCST would have loved nothing better then to beat ECU and bring our magical season to a end.
With everything that was riding on this game, ECU staged a historical comeback victory to defeat #21 NCST and finish #9 in the country. If we lose that game, the pollsters probably drop us #20-25 or maybe even out of the final poll all together the way they have shafted us over the years. As it stands that win validated a 11-1 season where ECU defeated #15 Syracuse and #23 Pitt earlier and only lost to Illinois on a bullcrap celebration penalty. Relating this thread to the AAC we had four AAC schools play a cameo role on our magical season as we defeated UCF, Memphis, Tulane and Cincinnati that year along with South Carolina, Akron, Syracuse, Pitt, Virginia Tech, Southern Miss and NCST.
I would certainly put the wins over #9 Miami, #8 WVU, #13 VT and the crushing of #12 Miami 31-6 in the Orange Bowl right up there with some of my favorite wins
I agree. The Peach Bowl game was the high mark because of the final ranking. It also was one of the most amazing comebacks I have ever seen in person. I think we were down 3 scores with 8 minutes to play. Jeff Blake went crazy. They simply could not stop him. It ended Dick Sheridans career at NCSU. That was by far our best season ever.
(11-27-2013 09:16 AM)TigerSeth Wrote: 1996 win over UT is easily our biggest win IMO.
An NCAA Finals trumps any football game Memphis has ever played...if we make a BCS level bowl (20 million+) that would change things.
You're just flat out wrong, and that kind of thinking is why there is now a chasm between us and Louisville where there once was none.
If you think a losing football team, with a coach we fired, beating 1 ranked UT team is the same as the $$$ and exposure that comes with an NCAA Finals...you're just flat crazy.
Please re-examine what I was responding to.
It's true...we've never played in a major bowl...when we do...I'll reconsider.
(11-27-2013 09:16 AM)TigerSeth Wrote: 1996 win over UT is easily our biggest win IMO.
I'm with you there
I was there and stormed the field....good times
helped tear down the post and am looking at a piece of it as i type this (from the one upmanship department)
I see you Shere
the most surprising thing to me how how many people i actually knew outa that crowd that rushed the field. some old friends that i hadnt seen in a while. bunch a nuts from the same tree. still have my old starter jacket like rip is wearing in that video too.
i must be one of the most loyal fans of a perpetually bad team in the history of sports.
(11-27-2013 06:10 PM)UofMemphis Wrote: An NCAA Finals trumps any football game Memphis has ever played...if we make a BCS level bowl (20 million+) that would change things.
You're just flat out wrong, and that kind of thinking is why there is now a chasm between us and Louisville where there once was none.
If you think a losing football team, with a coach we fired, beating 1 ranked UT team is the same as the $$$ and exposure that comes with an NCAA Finals...you're just flat crazy.
Please re-examine what I was responding to.
It's true...we've never played in a major bowl...when we do...I'll reconsider.
You seem to be under the impression that basketball matters enough to overcome the weight of football. Basketball equals about 25%, and football is about 75% on the importance scale. As someone said earlier, you aren't even citing a win. You are citing a loss.
If you want to go at it from your perspective, where we have reached the highest level of achievement nationally, we would have to go with our 3 national titles in four years by a single player in racquetball.
