Very strange that Army beat Navy in OT on a FG yesterday. They did almost the same thing exactly 30 years ago with 12 seconds left. Had to kick it twice, though as the first one that split the uprights got called back because of a procedure penalty. Here’s my story:
“My brother and I attended the Army-Navy Football Game 30 years ago this weekend at the old Veterans Memorial Stadium in Philly. I had stayed over for the weekend after a business trip to Baltimore. My brother (Miami ‘73) was a hospital administrator in nearby Reading.
I got lucky and used my Mariners relationship to upgrade our tickets from the cold windy upper deck to seats on the 100 level right behind Army’ West Point’s staff seating. Thank you Phillies ticket office!
Before going to our seats we both bought black and gold Army toques from a vendor. Everyone was freezing during the first half (38 degrees with a 20 mph steady wind off the Delaware) so a senior officer sent some junior officers out to the parking lot at halftime to get a whole bunch of wool OD Army blankets from their trucks and passed them out in the West Point staff section. A sympathetic second lieutenant loaned us a couple.
Damp, cold and windy but what a great game. A classic Army-Navy contest decided in Army’s favor at the final gun.”
Moinken is a quality coach and has built a strong program. I bet he has a hard time scheduling because of that. But…even though Army isn’t P5, they have money and could likely pay decent G5 teams to play them. Heck, I bet MU would take that check
Interesting. I’d heard between a direct pipeline to government and a ton of powerful alum, they were loaded. Maybe that’s not correct? Certainly I’m not an expert here. Most of my news sources turn out to be TMZ
I believe Army always plays at least one Patriot League team. Possibly a scheduling arrangement with the Patriot League being their primary conference, similar to how Notre Dame always has to schedule a certain number of ACC teams.
The issue was that their game against Tennessee got cancelled with a year notice which apparently wasn’t enough time to find an FBS opponent, so they ended up with two FCS teams. Don’t think they’d have beaten UT so probably the same result of not bowling either way though.
That’s correct. Tennessee cancelled their matchup when Heupel took over and picked up Akron this year instead. Tennessee was much more concerned about the challenge Army presented than Akron.
D3 Depth: watching Mount Union vs North Central in D3 championship game. Mount Union has 195 guys in their roster! About 25% are from Florida and Georgia.
Largely the same group of schools in the semifinals every year, and the only really interesting question is what will happen with their Bama equivalent? Just like FBS!