It's already been mentioned in Twitter but I thought the Pipe would have been more apropos...
Schnellenberger's Bronzed Boots are now a trophy...
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Why, those two teams would never play each other, otherwise?
He was huge at both schools. Well they might play, but he left his mark in both places.
That's at least a real rivalry with a lot of history. Not anywhere near as big as it was 60 years ago though.
Eh. LSU overwhelmingly leads that series 64–41–4
By contrast, Ole Miss leads State 64–46–6 in the BFTGE— which is much more competitive and closer to the Rebels’ level of play…
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Boots or no boot man if he had stayed at UM how many titles are we thinking he would have won? I am going 5. Granted the NCAA hounds would have got them eventually for stuff that is perfectly fine today.
When I think of Schnellenberger and fashion accessories, I think about his Fat Boy Suspenders.
I had no idea he even wore cowboy boots. I mean, seriously, how often do you really look at a man's shoes?
I'm still trying to figure out what it means. Before the Golden Egg, Great Era, General Election, General Eisenhower?
We should do a trophy for the Texas games. The snips used to castrate that bull would look nice bronzed on top of a trophy.**
And fans can hang bronze versions of the testicles off of the back of their Raptor.
Sort of a hijack but I looked at HS’s Wikipedia page and this section was eye opening compared to when people talk about the decline of college football today. The difference in 1985 vs 2005 where they had 40,000 is pretty amazing.
In 1985, Schnellenberger returned to his hometown to coach another struggling program, the University of Louisville Cardinals. Schnellenberger inherited a situation that was as bad, if not worse, than what he'd inherited at Miami. The Cardinals had not had a winning season since 1978, and only two winning records in the previous 12 years. They played at Cardinal Stadium, a minor-league baseball stadium, and often hosted crowds so small that the school was forced to give tickets away. They also played in the long shadow of the school's powerful men's basketball team.[25] The situation was so grave at Louisville that officials were considering dropping the football program down to NCAA Division I-AA.
In 1985, Schnellenberger returned to his hometown to coach another struggling program, the University of Louisville Cardinals. Schnellenberger inherited a situation that was as bad, if not worse, than what he'd inherited at Miami. The Cardinals had not had a winning season since 1978, and only two winning records in the previous 12 years. They played at Cardinal Stadium, a minor-league baseball stadium, and often hosted crowds so small that the school was forced to give tickets away. They also played in the long shadow of the school's powerful men's basketball team.[25] The situation was so grave at Louisville that officials were considering dropping the football program down to NCAA Division I-AA.