Keith Kelley posted this question on Twitter, and Ian reposted on GoWyoGo... so let's try it here. If you could re-do any single play in Cowboys history, football, basketball, etc, what play would it be?
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If you could redo one play in Pokes history...
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ragtimejoe1
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Not as good as the others mentioned but the J. Jackson fumble in Lincoln would be a candidate for me.
ragtimejoe1
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Wyokie said:
Yep.
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NU went on to be national champs that year.
NowherePoke
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Some additional ones that loom large in my mind (that we already mentioned on twitter/GWG, but worth discussing):
1. CU game - 1997 - Take your pick of several plays. Pokes blew a 19-10 lead with 4 minutes to go in Boulder against a ranked CU team. Key plays were a 99 yard KO return by CU and a fumble by Marques Brigham on the ensuing possession.
2. 12/19/02 - South Carolina vs. Wyoming in the AA - Marcus Bailey goes in for an uncontested layup and tears his ACL. The Pokes go from being the favorites to 3-peat as regular season champions and poised for a big NCAA run to a 3rd place NIT team. Think of the impact this potentially had on the program long term: The Pokes were at the top of the MWC, averaged 10k/gm attendance, etc. If Bailey doesn't get hurt, McClain likely takes a bigger job that offseason. The recent success, combined with buyout, etc. would have made the UW job a very attractive job at that point. It's always possible that it would have fallen apart anyway, but it totally changed the momentum and trajectory of the program.
3. UNLV in the AA in the 00-01 season - Dalron Johnson hits a half court buzzer beat to beat us. That cost us the outright MWC regular season title (ended up in a 3-way tie with BYU and Utah) and probably an NCAA at-large bid.
1. CU game - 1997 - Take your pick of several plays. Pokes blew a 19-10 lead with 4 minutes to go in Boulder against a ranked CU team. Key plays were a 99 yard KO return by CU and a fumble by Marques Brigham on the ensuing possession.
2. 12/19/02 - South Carolina vs. Wyoming in the AA - Marcus Bailey goes in for an uncontested layup and tears his ACL. The Pokes go from being the favorites to 3-peat as regular season champions and poised for a big NCAA run to a 3rd place NIT team. Think of the impact this potentially had on the program long term: The Pokes were at the top of the MWC, averaged 10k/gm attendance, etc. If Bailey doesn't get hurt, McClain likely takes a bigger job that offseason. The recent success, combined with buyout, etc. would have made the UW job a very attractive job at that point. It's always possible that it would have fallen apart anyway, but it totally changed the momentum and trajectory of the program.
3. UNLV in the AA in the 00-01 season - Dalron Johnson hits a half court buzzer beat to beat us. That cost us the outright MWC regular season title (ended up in a 3-way tie with BYU and Utah) and probably an NCAA at-large bid.
The safety that should have been a punt is probably top of this list for me. But this is a VERY close second:
Without that injury, we probably don't deal with the Schroyer debacle. And the program would likely be in a very different place today.
On second thought, does it have to be a play? Can we make it any athletics related decision? 'Cause in that case, I want to have never hired Schroyer. Ever.
GO POKES!
NowherePoke said:
Without that injury, we probably don't deal with the Schroyer debacle. And the program would likely be in a very different place today.
On second thought, does it have to be a play? Can we make it any athletics related decision? 'Cause in that case, I want to have never hired Schroyer. Ever.
GO POKES!
i agree with the 96 punt fiasco too, but I've got a couple more
Better time management and a completion in bounds for Brett Smith in Lincoln to give us a chance to maybe tie up to go to OT
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that dumb dunk/charge call against DC to start the game against Northern Iowa, not saying we woulda won but we played them tough and who knows if things woulda been a bit different
I could go on and on with other things as well
Better time management and a completion in bounds for Brett Smith in Lincoln to give us a chance to maybe tie up to go to OT
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that dumb dunk/charge call against DC to start the game against Northern Iowa, not saying we woulda won but we played them tough and who knows if things woulda been a bit different
I could go on and on with other things as well
COS Cowboy
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Safety Joe's safety!
ragtimejoe1
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wellpoke said:
Along those lines, Dimel leaving to Houston in what I would consider a lateral move at best.
Of course, hard to say if Dimel leaving was the problem or if he just saw the writing on the wall and wanted out before it got bad. Ironically, both programs crashed after his move.
ragtimejoe1
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COS Cowboy said:
Was Joe right about time expiring before the time out was called? If so, I would say the refs not calling the game when it should trumps the safety call.
If it was just sour grapes by Joe, then the safety call trumps all.
ragtimejoe1
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Never mind, just searched and painfully re-watched final minutes. Clearly timeout was called in time.
Safety call trumps all.
Safety call trumps all.
LanderPoke
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I remember this like it was yesterday. He then proceeded to jump on the scorer's table and taunt the student section.Dalron, Dalron.. Didn't he hit another bank-shot buzzer-beater three against us that year, too?NowherePoke said:
TSpoke
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I'm gonna go a different way on the 96 game and the safety call. I would change the free kick and not have the kicker shank the ball but boom a long kick to pin them back. We would go on to win.
I am one of the few (it appears) to beleive the safety was the right call. And if we didn't shank the free kick it would have worked.
I am one of the few (it appears) to beleive the safety was the right call. And if we didn't shank the free kick it would have worked.
COS Cowboy
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TSpoke said:
Without the safety they needed a TD, with it they only needed a FG. Had he just kicked it I say we would have kept them out of the endzone for the win. Had he not shanked it, they might have had to get a longer field goal but I think they still get it. JMHO of course.
COS Cowboy
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Of course if you want to go way back, how about we sniff out the bounce pass and beat CSU.
TSpoke
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COS Cowboy said:
And if he shanked it out of the endzone(if he shanked a free kick with the game on the line good chance he would out of the endzone) they start on their 10 yard line and get an easy touchdown or if they block the punt(easier to block punt out of endzone) they score a touchdown. Could go lots of ways. I didn't mind the call just the execution.
wyocowboy2014
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Can I say all of DC's time management (or lack there of) in Lincoln a few years ago? I think we could've won that game.
