Kansas State 15, ULL 17

by Herodotus on Sep 12, 2009 7:32 PM PDT Comment 11 comments

Just watched the finish of the K State game at Louisiana-Lafayette on ESPN-360. I lived in Louisiana for a while, and I knew the campus as USL, but by any name the Rajin' Cajuns aren't exactly a big-time football program. Against K State they looked to be quicker, faster, and sharper. I don't know whether K State is the doormat of the Big 12, but if they play like they did tonight, I can't see them winning many conference games.

For us, that translates into this: we'd better not go into next week's game with the kind of smugness we saw from Tennessee today. We're going to be big favorites, I guess, probably at least the 9 Tennessee was given over us. K State looked vulnerable to the run, which would be great for the Bruins, because it would give us a chance to return to the possession game we enjoyed against SDSU. I don't think Prince will see the kind of presuure he saw today, and maybe next week they'll call it if he gets a helmet hit to the head.

By the way, is there another geezer out there who remembers whether it was Tommy Prothro or Pepper Rodgers who vowed never to play again in Knoxville after the zebras stole a game from him? I think it was Prothro, but I don't have the energy to look it up, and I don't remember.

Anyway, this good be a better season than we expected, or maybe still expect, but as Ben Roethlisberger said after the Steelers' win the other night, let's take it a game at a time and see where it leads us.

Go Bruins!

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It was Prothro

This was the game a week after we beat just$c* 20-16. Tennessee kept running sweeps, and even though the ball would go out of bounds on one side, the refs would spot the ball in the middle of the field, giving us no short side to help with the defense. It was little things like that. Coach Prothro said after the game he was ashamed to be a southerner. I think the final score was something like 39-37, and the refs in Knoxville absolutely positively stole the game from us. It wasn’t on TV or at least it wasn’t recorded for posterity, so I think the refs thought they could do whatever they wanted and no one would know.

by Fox 71 on Sep 12, 2009 7:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

In fact, sjh was probably at that game, and could give more details.

by Fox 71 on Sep 12, 2009 7:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hope this link works

Here’s a short article about the game by the late, great Jim Murray.

by insomniacslounge on Sep 12, 2009 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fox:

LOVE the level of detail in your descriptions of our history… wish I would’ve been there to understand the impact of Prothro, Pepper Rogers, etc. I can only go as far back as 1985-86… I was a wee lad of 14-15 then, and came aboard when my older sister was accepted to UCLA (I entered four years later) and when Troy Aikman transferred. I know Vermeil was only with us for two years, but how were those years considered at the time?

W.S. Montano Class of 1994

by wsmontano1994 on Sep 12, 2009 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks to Fox and insomniac

After I posted I remembered it was Prothro, and right before the Rose Bowl win over Michigan State, right?—which wouldn’t have been as much of a surprise if the Tennessee game had been the win it was supposed to be. I was lucky enough to be at Pasadena for that game, and my end zone seats left me perfectly positioned to see Bobby Stiles’s great stop.

BN helps bring back lots of great memories, even while we’re making new ones.

Speaking of Pepper Rodgers, if you watch NCIS, you’re looking at his qb.

by Herodotus on Sep 13, 2009 8:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

ESPN360

Do any of you technophiles know of any ways to record the stream to your pc?

by insomniacslounge on Sep 12, 2009 9:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Don't know about recording. But they do leave a replay of the whole game up for a while.

by jaffa on Sep 12, 2009 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Like RN said

We aren’t in a position to take anyone lightly after the 4-8 season we had last year. I think the coaching staff will have the team ready, and the senior leadership won’t allow for the team to have a lazy week of practice. Let’s face it, we were heavily outmatched against BYU last year, and it snowballed. I think K State is a very winnable game, we just have to go out an take care of business like we all believe this team can (after what we saw today).

by dhuang90 on Sep 12, 2009 9:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I think its going to be interesting

To see whether or not UCLA gets a little arrogant. Now, for the first time under CRN, they have some swagger, and they just punched ESPN and Co. right in the mouth. I thought some of the players looked a little too excited, jerkin’ all over the stadium yesterday.

However, CRN has had to deal with this, meh, I’m not concerned, in CRN we trust

by ucla13_usc9 on Sep 13, 2009 6:52 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Re:stolen game in tennesse

In 1965 the Bruins played Tennesse in Memphis after they beat SC 20-16 to go to the Rose Bowl (where they upset Michigan State, No 1 in the country) the Bruins lost to the Vols on a disputed referee’s cal. After the game Tommy Prothro said"I never thought I would have to say I’m ashamed to be a southerner" Tommy Prothro had the same voice as Foghorn Leghorn, the cartoon rooster.

by eastern bruin on Sep 13, 2009 9:08 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Tommy

My dad would take me to Wash. St. games when I was a kid. A few were against Tommy Prothro coached Oregon State teams. Tommy was a genius. He had running quarterbacks—Terry Baker (Heisman winner), Paul Brothers and later of course our own Gary Beban. I continued following Tommy’s career when he took the UCLA job and fell in love with UCLA. Years later, after graduating high school from Washington, I went to UCLA. That happened to be Pepper Rodger’s first year. Had Tommy not taken the Rams job and stayed at UCLA, the Bruins would have been rulers of the college football universe for years. He owned John McKay. Anyway, I always feel that Tommy recruited me to UCLA.

by bruin75 on Sep 13, 2009 12:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs