Sorry for not giving Tech credit with the "fig" in the 1st half. No difference between the Mountain West & the Wac IMO. CUSA still did not want any part of the Rustonites.
If Skip pulls this off, I'd have to back off of him a little for his scheduling blunders over the past few years. This is the right kind of team to schedule in this situation.
La Tech beat Fresno State the last two years. So what? Fresno State had pounded La Tech the previous three meetings. In 2004, there was no excuse. After going up by 21 points, we just couldn't stop Ryan Moats. The better team won that day. 2005, we were seriously depleted from injuries and emotionally flat from playing USC, and almost beating them at their house. In that La Tech game this year, we were missing our starting FB, our backup FB, our starting kicker (replaced by a walk-on soccer player) and our starting WLB. You couldn't have faced a more emotionally flat team. Fresno State has gotten respect because we play hard in OOC games, and present a good challenge. Unlike La Tech who schedules OOC games as body-bag affairs, to get a big paycheck and supplement your pathetic budget. How many OOC games has Fresno State been humiliated in? In 6 years, maybe one or two. How many has La Tech been humiliated in? 13 by my count. Also, unlike La Tech fans, we have much respect and give it to teams like Tennessee, Oklahoma, USC and LSU who are willing to schedule us. We give it to their fans as well. We realize it's a privilege to be playing them, not like it's owed to us...UNLIKE most La Tech fans who think the world is owed to them.
49-10 in 2003. Could have been much, much, much worse. This case of penis envy is simply amusing. LT threw fits for years because we didn't play them. We eventually did, showed them what real football is, and now they're throwing a hissy fit because we don't want their cancer of a football program bringing down our schedule anymore. Haha.
In 2000 I saw Bradshaw at a conference... He was the guest speaker at technical conference in Orlando. IBM hosted a party for it's customers at the conference (a couple hundred) at the House of Blues at Downtown Disney. He got up in front of the crowd and talked for about 45 minutes, and then fielded questions. Mostly he told stories about his days with the Steelers, working for Fox, etc. He told one story about how he had a broken tooth that flopped out of his mouth when he was calling a play at the line, and it flew across the line of scrimmage, and some opposing linebacker squished it into the mud intentionally. One of the questions from the crowd was "what college team do you follow?" Bradshaw answered that his scheduled didn't really allow for him to watch much college football, but he always made sure to follow the LSU Tigers since that was his home team. I found it odd, and interesting that he didn't mention his alma mater. For whatever that is worth.
