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It's times like this that I really appreciate what CU athletics
Mar 10, 2021, 10:58 PM
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was doing in the late 70s. I think it was 1977, I forget exactly, I've posted the details before. Football was kicking butt. Basketball team went 22-5 (I think?) and this was when the ACC was the by-gawd ACC in basketball, and you played every team twice. And we'd score over 100 points some games. Baseball team was a beast, going to Omaha was almost a given. Soccer team was ranked #1 in the nation... tennis team was ranked... etc etc.
Right down the line, name a sport, and we kicked buttt. And we had 10,000 students then. Pound for pound, we were the baddest school in the country.
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I mean seriously, we just got shelled by USC-SugarTit or whatever
Mar 11, 2021, 12:00 AM
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in baseball. Those are the kinda teams we used to beat 19-0 while resting starters. How has our baseball team fallen this far?
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Re: I mean seriously, we just got shelled by USC-SugarTit or whatever
Mar 11, 2021, 7:12 AM
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Thank you, I can’t stop laughing. I haven’t heard of Sugar ### SC in a long time. Forgot about it. My gut hurts I’ve been laughing so hard. Perfect name for that upstate school!!!
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Re: It's times like this that I really appreciate what CU athletics
Mar 11, 2021, 7:20 AM
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Ummm, 3-6-2 in football?
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You're right, my bad... I have corrected above. Don't know
Mar 11, 2021, 8:35 AM
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why I typed 1976. How well I remember my first 2 football seasons, we were not good at all. 77 & 78 was the turnaround... I went to both Gator Bowls.
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I was at both Gator Bowls. I actually hung out the Woody
Mar 12, 2021, 6:27 PM
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Hayes at a restaurant the afternoon before the game. He spent 20 minutes asking me about Clemson as a town and a University. Sad to see what happened to him at the end of the game.
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Re: I was at both Gator Bowls. I actually hung out the Woody
Mar 13, 2021, 10:42 AM
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So...Woody was actually a nice guy? Interesting.
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The 1977 football season finished 8-3-1. Beat UGA in
Mar 12, 2021, 6:20 PM
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Athens, lost to a very good Maryland team, and lost 21-17 to Notre Dame, the eventual national champion in 1977. Lost to defending national champion Pitt in the Gator Bowl. We tied UNC in Chapel Hill.
In 1978, we won the ACC football championship. We finished 11-1 and beat Ohio State in the Gator Bowl.
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Including the famous punch that the whole world saw, but
Mar 13, 2021, 10:16 AM
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two TV announcers missed, even on replay. 
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Re: It's times like this that I really appreciate what CU athletics
Mar 11, 2021, 10:14 AM
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All I say is thank God for Football and Soccer something D Rad has not messed with yet
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My freshman year at Clemson was 1977-78. Clemson
Mar 12, 2021, 6:08 PM
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started winning in football after some under .500 seasons. We also had a solid basketball team, a great soccer team, and a very good baseball team.
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and since I started at Clemson in 1977 . .
Mar 12, 2021, 6:42 PM
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I back your facts
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Yeah I remember going to the back to back Gator bowls
Mar 12, 2021, 7:32 PM
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The 34-3 loss to Pitt was tough but they had Tony Dorsett then and were coached by Jackie Sherrill. But then we beat Ohio State and Charlie Baumann, a backup nose guard, picked off that pass to end Woody, idiot, Hayes career in scandal. Made up for the debacle the season before. In 79 didn’t we lose to stupid Baylor at a time when the Peach Bowl sucked and was still played in Fulton County Stadium.
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Re: Yeah I remember going to the back to back Gator bowls
Mar 13, 2021, 8:49 AM
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Actually, Dorsett was gone by '77 after winning the Heisman -- and Pitt the national title -- the year before. But Matt Cavanaugh was still the quarterback, and Clemson made him look like he should have won the Heisman. The enduring image of that '77 Gator Bowl, for me, was late in the game, all hope gone, and Willie Jordan drops a sure interception, right in his chest. We stayed in the same hotel as the Pitt band. Needless to say, the night did not get any better for us.
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Yep, I think Matt Cavanaugh had all four horseshoes,
Mar 13, 2021, 10:15 AM
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still attached to the horse, up his rear for that game. He could absolutely do no wrong. That game, to me, was a MUCH worse beatdown than the W Va Orange Bowl. We were never in it from the get go.
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this is me from a group photo taken in 1977, in our Jax hotel
Mar 13, 2021, 10:17 AM
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room right before we left for the Gator Bowl stadium. I'm wearing a freaking suit... LOL
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