Dawgowar
09-06-2015, 08:50 AM
Southern beat us 42-14 Oct 11
October 25th they lost to Bama 42 - 7 November 1 State Beat Bama 6-3
November 8 they lost to Auburn 31-0 October 25th State beat Auburn 24-21
Southern played two other SEC schools that year
Us - the aforementioned 42-14 victory
and
Ole Miss on Oct 4th and beat them 28-22
So, one of our greatest teams, the 9-3 Bama beating Bulldogs of 1980, a defense of Cooks, Collins, Jackson, etc - A John Bond and Michael Haddix offense - got throttled by USM, who the week prior beat Ole Miss.
The rest of USM's schedule was absolute garbage - Tulane, La Tech, East Carolina, Ark, State, Lamar, Richmond, Louisville , and McNeese State in the Indep Bowl.
This was a reality us and UNM lived with - USM played nobody of consequence except for four SEC schools that allowed them to make $. Their coaches only had to get them up for two games a year - us and TSUN. We were their Super Bowl. TSUN got smart and dropped them first. USM spent the whole year getting up for those two games and then cleaned up on patsies. But on those two Saturdays every year they were going to play like the number one team in the country and take us out. I remember quite well the 'State Champions' t-shirts and living with not one but two insufferable fanbases.
The beat us 7-6 in '81 (arguably Collins one legit team, they also tied Bama and Beat FSU - but lost to Louisville and Mizzou - we went 7-4 that year and went to a goal
1982 - beat us 20-14
1983 31-6 they win
1984/85 - Don Smith beat them 27-14
We lost 86-87-88
We ended beating them 89 and 90
And before 1980 - we beat them in 76 and then lost the remainder of the decade
We played them last year when they were worse than we were under year 1-3 of Croom. They are not world beaters but they have put enough competent players in place to have given us a fight on their home turf.
This is one of those things you can't explain but should learn from history - neither us nor TSUN will schedule these guys if we have a lick of sense. They live for it. Compare our conference schedules, the stakes we have in needing to beat them vs the lack of consequences if they lose to us - all it would take is to lose to them one time and it will impact us in recruiting and national perception.
We need to clean their clocks next year and never schedule them again. Ever. Some things in life I do not have to understand, just accept. Playing USM is bad news for our school. It is a landmine we can and should avoid. Hopefully last night convinces Stricklin to replace them with a Power Five who would take us for granted. I do not think we have ever beaten them 3 in a row in any era.
Just a thought.
October 25th they lost to Bama 42 - 7 November 1 State Beat Bama 6-3
November 8 they lost to Auburn 31-0 October 25th State beat Auburn 24-21
Southern played two other SEC schools that year
Us - the aforementioned 42-14 victory
and
Ole Miss on Oct 4th and beat them 28-22
So, one of our greatest teams, the 9-3 Bama beating Bulldogs of 1980, a defense of Cooks, Collins, Jackson, etc - A John Bond and Michael Haddix offense - got throttled by USM, who the week prior beat Ole Miss.
The rest of USM's schedule was absolute garbage - Tulane, La Tech, East Carolina, Ark, State, Lamar, Richmond, Louisville , and McNeese State in the Indep Bowl.
This was a reality us and UNM lived with - USM played nobody of consequence except for four SEC schools that allowed them to make $. Their coaches only had to get them up for two games a year - us and TSUN. We were their Super Bowl. TSUN got smart and dropped them first. USM spent the whole year getting up for those two games and then cleaned up on patsies. But on those two Saturdays every year they were going to play like the number one team in the country and take us out. I remember quite well the 'State Champions' t-shirts and living with not one but two insufferable fanbases.
The beat us 7-6 in '81 (arguably Collins one legit team, they also tied Bama and Beat FSU - but lost to Louisville and Mizzou - we went 7-4 that year and went to a goal
1982 - beat us 20-14
1983 31-6 they win
1984/85 - Don Smith beat them 27-14
We lost 86-87-88
We ended beating them 89 and 90
And before 1980 - we beat them in 76 and then lost the remainder of the decade
We played them last year when they were worse than we were under year 1-3 of Croom. They are not world beaters but they have put enough competent players in place to have given us a fight on their home turf.
This is one of those things you can't explain but should learn from history - neither us nor TSUN will schedule these guys if we have a lick of sense. They live for it. Compare our conference schedules, the stakes we have in needing to beat them vs the lack of consequences if they lose to us - all it would take is to lose to them one time and it will impact us in recruiting and national perception.
We need to clean their clocks next year and never schedule them again. Ever. Some things in life I do not have to understand, just accept. Playing USM is bad news for our school. It is a landmine we can and should avoid. Hopefully last night convinces Stricklin to replace them with a Power Five who would take us for granted. I do not think we have ever beaten them 3 in a row in any era.
Just a thought.