Florida to schedule Home and Home with Notre Dame?

[Egor's Assistant]

Yes, Please.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

Hope it’s true. Have always wanted to go to a game at ND.

Me, too. Let’s hope the games are scheduled sometime before the 20’s come to a close, preferably before 2025 (unlikely I’m sure on the 2025 date).

 

[gatorev12]

A damn good thing my sister and her husband still have their 4 season tickets at ND. :cool:

Go Gators!! Have always wanted this matchup in my college + years.

 

[stephenPE]

We ended up having to play a walk on MLB in the second half and ND just kept handing off to the Bus and he ran right through those poor guys.

I remember it exactly that way. I was at the game. I was just taking a shot at the grand pooh bah. I always said it was our 3rd string LB corp playing the 2nd half. Maybe our walkona was 3rd string. Hell, our bowl game was beating fsu. Oddly enough we only lost to Syracuse and ND. Ugh.

 

[oxrageous]

You were 6 yrs old more interested in the popcorn and snow cone. SOS vowed to never kck FGs again or let the team party too hardy as a reward for kcking fsu's ass in the final game...............

I was 16 and watched the entire game. We were excited about the matchup and really felt UF would kill them. We underestimated the power of a HOF running back. It's a helpless feeling when you know what the opposition is going to do and are absolutely powerless to stop it.

 

[fischerwood]

I can still see Jerome Bettis rumbling down the field while Gator players flail at him like children.

Yeah OX, me too

 

[jaywalker72]

I was 16 and watched the entire game. We were excited about the matchup and really felt UF would kill them. We underestimated the power of a HOF running back. It's a helpless feeling when you know what the opposition is going to do and are absolutely powerless to stop it.

Holtz dropped eight into coverage and dared Spurrier to beat him running the ball. Spurrier, of course, took this as a dare and the defense ended up being left on the field too long as a result. The Bus rolled us continuously in the second half and there is a hole in the wall of an Aloha Gardens apartment as a result of Spurrier’s stubbornness in that game.

 

[oxrageous]

The Bus rolled us continuously in the second half and there is a hole in the wall of an Aloha Gardens apartment as a result of Spurrier’s stubbornness in that game.

Not the only hole in the wall spread out through a number of apartments those years.

 

[jaywalker72]

Not the only hole in the wall spread out through a number of apartments those years.

Ahhhhh - good times, good times

 

[Pablos Tunnel]

Holtz dropped eight into coverage and dared Spurrier to beat him running the ball. Spurrier, of course, took this as a dare and the defense ended up being left on the field too long as a result. The Bus rolled us continuously in the second half and there is a hole in the wall of an Aloha Gardens apartment as a result of Spurrier’s stubbornness in that game.

Aloha Gardens.....spent a year there too

 

[78]

The Cheerios Bowl. The difference between Cheerios and Notre Flame is that Cheerios belongs in a bowl.

 

[ChiefGator]

This is another example of changes coming, fine with me but my experience with ND fans indicates that they are very arrogant.

 

[Zambo]

I can still see Jerome Bettis rumbling down the field while Gator players flail at him like children.

Its not only burned into my eyeballs from the Superdome endzone seats, but the sound of that coonass stadium announcer calling every play as well...."Bettis on da carry for No-tra Dame for tirdy-tree yahts, tackelt on da Flahrida fahrty tree."

 

[CGgater]

Holtz dropped eight into coverage and dared Spurrier to beat him running the ball. Spurrier, of course, took this as a dare and the defense ended up being left on the field too long as a result. The Bus rolled us continuously in the second half and there is a hole in the wall of an Aloha Gardens apartment as a result of Spurrier’s stubbornness in that game.

Stubbornness? There were other much bigger factors than SOS, but I’ll start with addressing that:

1. If Matthews bothered to dump off to Rhett underneath (he had lots of running room), the O scores more effectively throughout the second half. Instead he kept pushing it downfield into coverage. That’s more on Matthews’ decisions in the pocket than the play calling.

2. Matthews’ accuracy/timing was either affected by the foot injury vs f$u, and/or the rumored hangover from bourbon st. Our WRs were 5-10 yds behind the nd secondary for the entire first half, but Matthews kept under throwing. If he maintained the accuracy he had over the entire season, the lead would’ve been out of reach by halftime, even with bettis running wild in the second half.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

The ND game in the Sugar Bowl wasn't a complete loss. I did learn how many whippits it takes to get a migraine.

 

[NavetG8r]

I see we're lowering our standards again...

 

[jaywalker72]

Stubbornness? There were other much bigger factors than SOS, but I’ll start with addressing that:

1. If Matthews bothered to dump off to Rhett underneath (he had lots of running room), the O scores more effectively throughout the second half. Instead he kept pushing it downfield into coverage. That’s more on Matthews’ decisions in the pocket than the play calling.

2. Matthews’ accuracy/timing was either affected by the foot injury vs f$u, and/or the rumored hangover from bourbon st. Our WRs were 5-10 yds behind the nd secondary for the entire first half, but Matthews kept under throwing. If he maintained the accuracy he had over the entire season, the lead would’ve been out of reach by halftime, even with bettis running wild in the second half.

I didn't watch this ever again after this defeat, so these seem like reasonable points, but I definitely focused on Spurrier and the fact that we continued to call pass plays. I will take your word for it, since, even in my curiosity to understand it more, I will never fire up this game again.

 

[soflagator]

I was 16 and watched the entire game. We were excited about the matchup and really felt UF would kill them. We underestimated the power of a HOF running back. It's a helpless feeling when you know what the opposition is going to do and are absolutely powerless to stop it.

Pretty sure I've posted this before, but I had a 1994 Preseason UF book that had an article about Sr LB Kevin Freeman who had finally reemerged in the spring of that year. In the interview, he referenced that game, and specifically one hit where Bettis just ran him over. Apparently it shook his confidence so much, it took 2+ years to recover.

Insane.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

Not the only hole in the wall spread out through a number of apartments those years.

Glory holes?

 

[oxrageous]

Glory holes?

Yes.