Oh, sheet, my bad, I got the years mixed up and thought you were referring to that 2004 debacle in Annapolis. Completely forgot about the 2006 game, which I shouldn't have because I watched both the 2004 and 2006 games. DUH!
That's why I considered it lopsided because of the last visit there. My wife and I went to every game that year and that was our favorite road trip by far. We were at the 2004 game as well.
Our seats are on the west side about the 25 yard line toward the scoreboard. It seemed like Illinois played most of the game in front of us and not in a good way. Great defensive effort by our guys.
My Dad and his group decided to have a shot for every score during the Giants/Redskins game the year I was born...
yeah.. remarkable.. it was not ineptitude on the part of Illinois.. it was our D clicking on all cylinders. Some great scouting.. maybe GS took some cheating notes from Belichick. But seeing the D fly around at the snap and gang-tackle the ball over-and-over. Soooo impressive.
That was the most remarkable, unexpected turnaround I ever saw at RU. Start out 1-5, only beating Morgan St. Than we luck out against UConn when they miss a game winning FG and we survive. It was like the flood gates opening for us. We must have lead the nation in scoring for 5 weeks with some big points on the road too. Than we win the Bowl in Alabama and have a great year. Who would have thunk it.
The funny thing was the first 6 games, we just could NOT get our offense on track. We lost to 3 teams by a combined 12 points, Navy (23-21), WVU (24-17) & Cincy (13-10).
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That was a big game...Was the first game they finally got our OL put together the right way too. Never forget walking into the stadium for that game and Pitt fans making fun of us for booing our team so much...Would just stop in front of us and start booing and then laugh and say, "just wanted to get you guys started early today"
I say this was Schiano's worst to best coaching performance. Worst, because he allowed a few players to come into camp with "NFL" on their shoulders and let them get away with a lot of shit. Add in that he messed around with the OL too much with the brilliant idea to load up the left side with the 2 best OL regardless of where their best position was.
See above...I also remember asking Kevin why we never saw a play action or even a pitch out to a RB. If you start watching the games later that year, both were a big part of the game plan. Sucks- though, if we had gone into the year playing like we were capable of, that year could have rivaled 06.
Top 10-20 in the Nation if not better through that game on...
We beat Boston U at home 6-0 in the fog game. Could hardly tell what was going on for most of the game. I think the TD was scored on an interception run back. It looked like something you might see in the Grey Cup.
I might have to go with this.
I'm still looking for video of the L'ville DC apparently wanting to fight GS on the way to the locker room at half. It was the buzz with the ESPN crew afterward but we never got the chance to see a scuffle that apparently happened.
Ron English was his name. Funny thing was he became the Head Coach at Eastern Michigan. He was the coach when we beat them in 2013. He got fired that year. I actually thought he was going to get his revenge for the Louisville game then, but sadly it came a few years later under Ash.
And it was especially sweet after losing to them in OT the year before, 33-30. It's still hard to believe we lost after this run by Brian Leonard put us up 27-7:
