Story on the 1980 Bulldogs team

[Matt Barber]

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[bellringer]

Leave it to us to be forgotten when we actually have a good season.

 

[FlabLoser]

Didn't know we were a close loss to Florida away from an SEC championship. Why do all of our championship-caliber teams blow it with a heartbreaker either in mid-season or down the stretch?

 

[thatsbaseball]

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[HammerOfTheDogs]

However, that year MState went 7-4. A lot of the games that broke State's way in 1980 went the other way in 1981. Dana Moore missing a chip shot field goal when we lost to USM 7-6, John Bond throwing an INT when all he had to do was run the ball against Bama, Dick Pace taking the egg bowl away from us when he called pass interference on us. Missouri pretty much kicked our asses up and down the field.

 

[Coach34]

"Dick Pace taking the egg bowl away from us when he called pass interference on us."

I hope Dick Pace died a painful death

 

[saddawg]

17ing A. That mofo is still to this day my most hated person ever. If he's dead, I'm pissed. There goes my dream of killing his ***.

 

[Todd4State]

would allow a grad of a school to officiate a game with their alma mater involved. Especially their rivalry game.

Conflict of interest anyone?

 

[windcrysmary]

and that dick head's comments in the paper following the game...

our CB had his back to the receiver in the endzone and made the INT.. seconds later...dick head throws the flag..

dick head's explanation was that the interference had happened 5 yards before the 2 reached the endzone...

anybody else remember it differently?

 

[prairiedawg]

I was in the corner of the endzone where it happened, about 20 rows up. Only meaningful play that happened there all day. It was a classic egg bowl for back then, we kicked their asses up and down the field all day then miss opportunities. They get some fluke play or punt return and stay in it. Then the call.
Oh, and to top it off, my girlfriend breaks up with me when we get back to Vegas. Could have been the cussing fit I threw, but who knows.

 

[saddawg]

Basically was a jump ball in the endzone. Looked like our guy had position. No way you throw a flag on that play on either player. That was the old , spot of the foul rule. That made the call worse. Truly an example of a ref deciding a game.

 

[Agentdog]

Yeah, the picture I still have, 27 years later, is our CB in front of their WR. They both jump straight up around the goal line. As the ball hits their hands...their WR is reaching over the should pads and around the helmet of our DB for the ball.....and we get the PI flag. Absolutely, one of the most ridiculous calls in all of college football........that I know.

 

[prairiedawg]

with 20+ seconds left. He defended the call saying if there was a bad snap, there was time to call a timeout and run a second play on 4th down. Instead, he gave Fourcade time to get down the field and set up the aforementioned play.

 

[windcrysmary]

dick head threw the flag seconds after the INT..which took place in the endzone... his comment after in the CL was "the interference happened 5 yds before they intered the endzone".... ok.. 5 yds before they entered the endzone...yet you throw the flag seconds AFTER the INT which happened DEEP in the endzone?

please even an ole miss explanation would be welcomed...

if my memory is correct on that call, then it goes down as the worst call in history... in fact, it may have catupulted the NCAA to no longer make it a NFL "spot of the foul" call but just a 15 yd penalty... remember the NCAA change that took place?</p>

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

By the Orange county Pubic School Hall of Fame:

Mispellings intentional.</p>

As well as a member of the Floriduh sports hall of fame. Appears that he's a graduate of the University of Florida. Did he work at Ole Miss, or go to grad school there?</p>

 

[Ford76]

I would say Marcus Bullard that SOB in the Final Four took away our best chance to win a national title. Pistol-whipping piece of trash.

 

[patdog]

call, if Bellard hadn't called time out with 30 seconds left we'd have never even had to kick off to the Rebels.

 

[jackobee]

Dick Pace taking the egg bowl away from us when he called pass interference on us.


Was at that game - The highway patrol had to escort that damn ref off the field to keep him from getting killed.

 

[AceLeroy]

call, if Bellard hadn't called time out with 30 seconds left we'd have never even had to kick off to the Rebels.

I believe there were 43 seconds on the clock when We kicked off to the Rebs. Still , Pace's call was the worst ******** call I have ever seen. </p>