Fiesta Bowl

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. · #1 (**permalink**) Sat Jan 03, 2004, 12:29am

GO BUCKEYES!!!

JRutledge · #2 (**permalink**) Sat Jan 03, 2004, 12:31am

Hey, you still could not beat Michigan.

Peace

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. · #3 (**permalink**) Sat Jan 03, 2004, 12:39am

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Originally posted by JRutledge
Hey, you still could not beat Michigan.

Peace

We did last year. And as a graduate of Youngstown State University I knew that Jim Tressel was got to be a great coach at The Ohio State Universtity.

GO PENQUINS!! and GO BUCKEYES!

JRutledge · #4 (**permalink**) Sat Jan 03, 2004, 12:57am

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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

We did last year. And as a graduate of Youngstown State University I knew that Jim Tressel was got to be a great coach at The Ohio State Universtity.

So did Earl Bruce once, but are you going to talk about that this year too? What did you do with Coach Cooper? He could not beat Michigan if someone gave him the gameplan, directly from Ann Arbor.

I graduated from Western Illinois and we love kicking the Penquins a$$ from time to time as well.

GO NECKS!!!

Peace

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. · #5 (**permalink**) Sat Jan 03, 2004, 01:14am

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Originally posted by JRutledge

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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

We did last year. And as a graduate of Youngstown State University I knew that Jim Tressel was got to be a great coach at The Ohio State Universtity.

So did Earl Bruce once, but are you going to talk about that this year too? What did you do with Coach Cooper? He could not beat Michigan if someone gave him the gameplan, directly from Ann Arbor.

I graduated from Western Illinois and we love kicking the Penquins a$$ from time to time as well.

GO NECKS!!!

Peace

And how many NCAA Div. I-AA Football National Championships does Western Illinois have?

JRutledge · #6 (**permalink**) Sat Jan 03, 2004, 02:29am

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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

And how many NCAA Div. I-AA Football National Championships does Western Illinois have?

It does not matter. I am more proud of the fact that the Bruce Craddock Award (Gateway Coach of the Year) is named after a coach that I knew personally and went to HS with his son. He died the year we were Seniors and gave our pregame speech to our HS team that his son and I were on when we went to the playoffs after our undefeated regular season.

Peace

canuckrefguy · #7 (**permalink**) Sat Jan 03, 2004, 04:30am

Ah, who cares....

You ain't tried football until you've tried it with 3 downs.

In the snow.

In Saskatchewan.

In late November.

Against a team called "The Eskimos"

JugglingReferee · #8 (**permalink**) Sat Jan 03, 2004, 12:16pm

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Originally posted by canuckrefguy
Ah, who cares....

You ain't tried football until you've tried it with 3 downs.

In the snow.

In Saskatchewan.

In late November.

Against a team called "The Eskimos"

AMEN!!!

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. · #9 (**permalink**) Sat Jan 03, 2004, 08:44pm

For those of you who do not know where Youngstown, Ohio is, it is located on the Ohio Turnpike exactly half way between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. It is on the southern edge of the Lake Erie snow belt and the weather can be pretty nasty for football games in late November and December.

YSU were the NCAA Div. II Football National Runnersup in 1979. The Penquins (as the second seeded team in the tourament) hosted a quarter-final game on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The night before the game a snow storm dumped 18" of snow and the temperature at kick-off was below 20F and you do not even want to know what the wind chill was. YSU played Alabama A&M, and those A&M players did not know what hit them that bitterly cold afternoon.