THE STAND

I saw it at Georgia. I saw something in these guys I haven't seen since '02. They just play pissed off and take every inch gained by an offense personally.

The beautiful part is, the younger dudes are getting into the act too. Future!

Rick

Already been said, but after that beastly performance it bears saying again...best goal line stand I've ever seen. Even after Rice got bailed out by the refs on the 1st 4th down. Unbelievable! That was championship defense. So glad I was there to see it in person.

Edited November 1, 2013 by Green Lantern

This defense is a beast. Just imagine how much better they will be as we get more recruits in.

AMAZING

GMG

To me the whole game will simply be remembered and referred to as "THE STAND"

And Abe was pinned the entire last play, yet no holding. What a great series of plays!

Pretty sure that is a legal play. Some call it a syrup block (pancake block, now put syrup on the pancake).

Technically, wasn't it 9 or10 if you include the defensive "penalties" which negated the play

That play with Abbe pinned was outrageous. What do you call for pinning a player down and humping him?

There was one play earlier in the game, with a Rice player running towards the NT sideline. One of our secondary nearly had the back of his jersey pulled off, right in front of two officials. Nothing.

The play where our DB had his jersey yanked was the worst no call of the night. It even occurred right in front of an official with a good angle of the play. Especially considering that the tv replay didn't show a hold I could see on the defensive holding call in the end done that extended the stand.

I think the non-holding call to which you guys refer was committed against Zach Orr, not a DB.

Several on here talk about the missed holding calls. They weren't missed. They just simply were not called.

I don't know why CUSA refs hate this team.

NT video Dept... whoever you are... make that series a youtube vid on it's own...

similar to the hit... that stand needs to be available to everyone, whenever they need a pick me up at work

Let's not forget the tremendous hits delivered by the UNT defense. Lee is a human cannonball.

Imagine the t-shirt sales for a shirt that reads, "I was at THE STAND"

22K in attendance last night. Eventually 50K will say they were they.

I think the non-holding call to which you guys refer was committed against Zach Orr, not a DB.

Several on here talk about the missed holding calls. They weren't missed. They just simply were not called.

I don't know why CUSA refs hate this team.

The Rice LT big #79 was completely overmatched by the speed and quickness of our ends and he literally held on 90% of snaps it was blatant and obvious and still not being called. Unreal!

The Rice LT big #79 was completely overmatched by the speed and quickness of our ends and he literally held on 90% of snaps it was blatant and obvious and still not being called. Unreal!

Our dline was basically tackled on numerous plays. I thought we would get better officiating in CUSA but I guess not.

can we never let this thread die... please?

so Lee's hit on that last 4th down scramble was the perfect exclamation point to that STAND, but my favorite play was when they tried to option it out (again. I thought they would have learned after the first 2-3 times that it wasn't working for them) to the short side of the field and James Jones slipped around his block, picked up the RB and slammed him to the ground at the 2.

http://youtu.be/PfSBI6PTlSw?t=5m24s

6 out of the 8 plays on our highlight reel.

The visual of their poor QB on the final play.....lying flat on his back.....

Just wow.

I still can't believe what I saw.

does anyone know how much time the stand took?

I know they had the 8 plays... only 2 on which the play was stopped by incompletions and then one more for a timeout...

but i'm thinking after the initial gain to the 1, they must have wasted about 3 minutes trying to score...

the best part about the stand was that it took 8 plays... yielded no points... and ate up a HUGE amount of clock

so Lee's hit on that last 4th down scramble was the perfect exclamation point to that STAND, but my favorite play was when they tried to option it out (again. I thought they would have learned after the first 2-3 times that it wasn't working for them) to the short side of the field and James Jones slipped around his block, picked up the RB and slammed him to the ground at the 2.

The announcers kept saying Lee had concrete in his pads because of the hits, was awesome.

does anyone know how much time the stand took?

I know they had the 8 plays... only 2 on which the play was stopped by incompletions and then one more for a timeout...

but i'm thinking after the initial gain to the 1, they must have wasted about 3 minutes trying to score...

the best part about the stand was that it took 8 plays... yielded no points... and ate up a HUGE amount of clock

That 8 play series started around the 12:00 mark and ended about 4 minutes later. A lot of time was used for zero points.

I saw some of the replay last night, and the absolute best part of the stand was that after the final tackle Fox Sports zoomed in on the the Rice HC and you can clearly see him say "Well... S**T" with a totally defeated look on his face and you can see an assistant directly behind him tear up a play sheet and throw the pieces in the air.

When I get a chance I'll make a GIF of it.

That was college football history, not just North Texas history. I have never seen anything like it in all my years of watching this sport. Wow!

Plus 1, and I'm 70

I have to say, this was the absolute highlight of the game. This is one of those moments that McCarney can show to a recruit for years and after watching simply say "don't you want to be part of something like that?"

Pretty sure that is a legal play. Some call it a syrup block (pancake block, now put syrup on the pancake).

Correct. Laying on top of a pinned player so they can't get up is not holding, It was a legal play.

Technically, wasn't it 9 or10 if you include the defensive "penalties" which negated the play

No, we didn't get called for a defensive penalty till after we held on 4th down the first time. We were called on several penalties earlier in the drive though where it kept the drive alive. We actually bailed them out on about three 4th down plays with penalties (one around mid-feld...one about the 25 or so...and then the goal line).

Edited November 1, 2013 by CMJ

We were sitting in the far end zone and I have to say that was the most amazing thing that I have ever seen in college football, or any football... I can't wait to get home from work today so I can watch it on the DVR and see it all over again. What a great series from our D, will to win, never say die, cliché cliché cliché, who cares.... unbelievable.

Now can we not bitch about the refs? we won, did something absolutely amazing and unforgettable. lets bask in that glow for a while