CorkyCole

July 2nd, 2012 at 7:23 PM ^

Thanks for letting me know. I was incredibly bored while waiting for my girlfriend to get home from work to cook me some supper. HA.

JimBobTressel

July 2nd, 2012 at 7:32 PM ^

they couldn't cover david terrell in this game. gosh i hope hoke can get the pro-style O back to those levels...with a defense to match.

WolverineHistorian

July 2nd, 2012 at 7:53 PM ^

I remember being so frustrated with that defense.  They were very young.  At home, they were dominant all season.  Away from the big house, they got torched every game. 

We were big favorites in this game.  I remember being annoyed that we only won by 3 points.

PurpleStuff

July 2nd, 2012 at 10:37 PM ^

Henson missed the UCLA game and freshman John Navarre still had us in position to win but Epstein missed two field goals and John threw a pick in Bruin territory on the final drive, ending the game 23-20.

The offense exploded to a 28-10 halftime lead at Purdue, then pissed it away with an inability to stop Brees (hard to fault them) and Lloyd-ball regression until the lead was whittled down to 31-29.  Purdue missed a lead-changing chip-shot field goal, only to force yet another 3&out and get a second shot at it to win the game 32-31.

And then there was the shit-show of conceding 54 points to Northwestern but still only losing the game because Thomas couldn't hold onto the damn ball.

That team easily could've/should've been playing Oklahoma for the national title, and sadly actually probably would have had a decent shot against that team.  Balls!

 

JT4104

July 2nd, 2012 at 8:04 PM ^

funny part for me is that, I felt like this was when the secondary under Carr started taking steps back.

It seems like we got slower and slower after this and our safety play never really improved over the next few yrs.

turtleboy

July 2nd, 2012 at 8:08 PM ^

After every play I'm expecting to hear 7 nation army, and it just isn't there. I forgot that there used to be a world where 80,000 people didn't go "lo-LO-lo-looooo-lo" for 3 hours at every game, every time, everywhere around the world.

LSAClassOf2000

July 2nd, 2012 at 10:56 PM ^

This was a great game.

I could watch Tyrone Wheatley carry the ball on those QB draws all day. Tony McGee had a significant hand in the scoring as well too, as I recall. Awesome performances by both. 

Alexander, Smith, Toomer or Wheatley?  It was a good problem to have if you were a QB,  I think. 

Sac Fly

July 2nd, 2012 at 10:41 PM ^

I met A-Train in 5th grade. He signed my cursed football and his career died. I have around 25 signatures on that ball, every single Bear to sign it has suffered career ruining injuries shortly after.

The list includes A-Train; Barry Minter, Raymont Harris, Tom Waddle, Tommy Harris, Mike Brown, and Jonny Knox plus many others.