🎃A Halloween Thursday Night at Apogee, ESPN National TV, Rice vs UNT

[PlummMeanGreen]

What a night!  A great weeknight crowd at Apogee Stadium, too.
•••This game would feature “The Stand,” that is, when a good Rice Owls football team would be in the Red Zone & not score In 8 tries.  Mean Green fans absolutely  went nuts!!!!
•••This Mean Green football team In a little over 2 months would play in the HOD Bowl game vs the UNLV Rebels in the Cotton Bowl Stadium.  There would be almost 40,000 Mean Green fans for this bowl matchup. (UNLV brought so few fans).
 ••• North Texas won the January, 2014, bowl game easily.

GMG! 

Edited October 27, 2020 by PlummMeanGreen

[NorthTexan95]

So many player names bringing back good memories.  Good times.  

[Marty]

if only we had that defense now.

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

One of my favorite sports games I’ve ever been to in person!

Loved Lee’s hit on the Rice QB at the end, and I just miss that hard hitting and overall hard nosed football!

[untjim1995]

I still think that was the best team we have fielded since the Fry days. That team could hit, tackle, and pressure the QB. We had a solid offense, too. A 9-win team that could’ve easily won 11 games if we made plays at Ohio, Tulane, and at home against UTSA, which cost us the CUSA West division. But that team was as good as anyone UNT has ever rolled with.

[greenjoe]

Thanks Plumm

 

[PlummMeanGreen]

6 minutes ago, greenjoe said:

Thanks Plumm

 

You got it, greenjoe. 👍

GMG!

Edited October 27, 2020 by PlummMeanGreen

[LongJim]

10 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

I still think that was the best team we have fielded since the Fry days. That team could hit, tackle, and pressure the QB.

It was the most physical UNT team I had ever seen.  Will never forget the Ball State game that year.  UNT made them quit.

[eeeeagle]

Kenny Buyers man... Never had a doubt every time he made an open field tackle all alone.

He was best I've ever seen when it came to that hog tie tackle.

[bstnsportsfan3]

46 minutes ago, LongJim said:

It was the most physical UNT team I had ever seen.  Will never forget the Ball State game that year.  UNT made them quit.

That game was something else. We destroyed their will to play football

[PlummMeanGreen]

50 minutes ago, eeeeagle said:

Kenny Buyers man... Never had a doubt every time he made an open field tackle all alone.

He was best I've ever seen when it came to that hog tie tackle.

👍👍

Been watching MG football since 1973 & I’ve never seen better, either, eeeeagle.   

GMG!

Edited October 27, 2020 by PlummMeanGreen

[untjim1995]

It makes me frustrated about McCarney because he could have made it big here. He took the talent Dodge had assembled and taught them how to be an actual college team. But recruiting was his bugaboo and his offensive style was almost leather-helmet like, especially after Derek Thompson left. That DMac thought that McNulty or Greer were FBS level QBs was proof of just how far the program fell after those Dodge players graduated. 

AGain, its so UNT to go bland offense (Dickey), to no defense (Dodge), back to bland offense (DMac), and now back to no defense again with SL.

[southsideguy]

If our defense just knew how to tackle like this team did.   The only guy I think that even resembles players from this team is number 18, he can hit.

[Udomann]

Vividly remember this game. Was watching it while handing out candy in my garage. Pretty sure after the 5th play or so I just handed the bowl to some kids and shut the lights off. Hugely memorable moment

[Moobs]

I was in the other endzone for this game on the front row.  THAT was a fun night in Apogee for sure.  Probably my second favorite memory in that stadium, right after The Drive.

[UNTLifer]

The underrated moment from "The Stand" that makes me laugh every time is Big Dick Abbe laying on the turf with a Rice OL on top of him begging for a penalty.  Cracks me up every time.