Comments on: RETROTUBE: DERRICK RODGERS GOES BONKERS

By: meatybob

meatybob — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:37:03 +0000

Frost suck ass in that game too. He was boo’ed at the next husker home game. Played great D though. Only a touchdown and two fg (I think) on an offense that had the ball all game.

By: Mark (ASU 01)

Mark (ASU 01) — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:16:43 +0000

Bruce Snyder was a good coach surrounded by phenomenal talent. Let’s not forget, Prevent defense (only prevents you from winning) in the Rose Bowl and severe clock mismanagement vs Oregon (Joey Harrington’s Oregon) in 2000. Dennis Erickson would have taken that team to the national title pulling away.

By: Albino Tornado

Albino Tornado — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:12:27 +0000

RaiderRed — that was later in the season, when John Mackovic gave the Huskers food poisoning in St. Louis.

And ASU didn’t just get their doors blown off the previous year — Matt Turman, the 3rd string QB, threw a forty yard TD pass in the 4th quarter. Nebraska rang up ASU for 63 in the first half.

The 1995 NU/ASU game was the first game after Phillips pulled his SpiderMan / Incredible Hulk role on Kate McEwen and Scott Frost, and the 1995 Huskers beat the hell out of ASU. ASU remembered.

But I still don’t think Orson’d find the Derrick Rogers’ performance nearly as awesome had it not come so relatively soon after 62-24.

By: rudy (not the guy from notre dame)

rudy (not the guy from notre dame) — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:19:45 +0000

in a era of husker dominance, that game was an absolute abnormality and to this day husker fans who watched that game *still* wonder what the hell happened.

that night, the husker were just flat-out outplayed and beaten like circus monkeys. nebraska was so used to winning, they figured all they had to do was show up. ASU was still stinging from the last year where nebraska bitched them up 77-28 and they *definitely* wanted payback the worst way possible.

give it up the sundevils, y’all: they were beasts that night.

By: Raider Red

Raider Red — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:49:22 +0000

That was one weird game. It was like somebody put sugar in Big Red’s gas tank.

By: Big Jon

Big Jon — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:45:48 +0000

D-Rog was the best JuCo transfer to the Pac-10 since OJ Simpson, granted Rogers never killed anyone. Loren Wade took that honor for the Gun Devils.

If you can’t make fun of yourself, go the fuck back to where you came from you bastard.

By: Big Jon

Big Jon — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:37:36 +0000

#13 & #14:

We still love John Mackovic at ASU. With the exception of Mike Stoops he’s the best coach to happen to ASU since Frank Kush!

By: Oranse Taylor

Oranse Taylor — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:37:47 +0000

Orson, its really cool that you are covering Div1AA teams as well as the big boys. Usually only see these games if Im looking out the window of a jet going from Miami to LA.

By: Doc

Doc — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:05:09 +0000

True = Truth

Drunk, etc.

By: Doc

Doc — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:03:44 +0000

Thanks Orson, that night brings back heart-wretching memories, but not from the end result. We were watching that game at my grandparents’ house and my grandfather, who was in a terrible bout with emphysema at the time, finally got ‘called up’ after the game was over. We always joked that he was so upset that Nebraska lost he said ‘fuck it’ and punched out, True of the matter is that he was a MIchigan man and probably got a laugh out of it before he went.

By: Beatuofa

Beatuofa — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:16:32 +0000

Others have already commented on behalf of what every ASU fan feels about that 96 season and its ultimate result (Fuck you, David Boston and Joe Germaine), but ye gods — that night in Sun Devil Stadium is one of the 10 best nights in my life. The stunned look on the faces of the Nebraska fans in the stadium, and the indescribably feeling of “Oh my god, is this really happening?!?!” feeling that wrapped around the ASU fans from the opening kickoff. Gices me chills just thinking about it.

By: hunglikehussain

hunglikehussain — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:39:32 +0000

Kudos to Pat Tillman for always and ultimately “giving his all.”

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:34:36 +0000

That team should’ve won the title. Stupid fucking prevent defense, why switch up when you’ve been shutting down Ohio St. all game!?!?!

ARG

By: Adam West's chauffeur

Adam West's chauffeur — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:07:23 +0000

@ 13

John Mackovic’s one moment of clarity in 30 years of coaching and it had to be against us.

Those two losses in ‘96 were a kick in the junk, but I’ll take that over the man-raping we’ve endured lo these past six seasons.

By: Flatlander

Flatlander — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:55:48 +0000

Hell, that wasn’t even the biggest gut-punch of the ‘96 season. Yes I’m looking at you, Texas.