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PSA: Butch Davis was 0-7 vs Tom O'Brien and Al Groh at UNC

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UMFarArcher said:
Please - don't act stupid.

Butch instilled within them - what to do - and they took everything they had and could develop - and pushed themselves right to the top.

Leonidas was the war lord of the Spartans, died at Thermopylae - and when the Persians came into the Pelopponese, even though he didn't lead the Army - the Spartans defeated the much larger Persian force - to the man.

You don't get out much, do you?
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You tell me not to act stupid, but you want us to believe that a bunch of college football players "coached themselves".

Facts: with Butch on the sidelines, we lost a game and then lost computer points by playing a 42-31 game against Louisiana Tech who, by the way, scored fewer than 31 points against Tulsa, Hawaii, and Kansas State combined.

Then, the very next year, the same team dominated college football while Butch was going 7-9 in Cleveland.

So, like I said, we were a national champion as soon as we got Butch off the sidelines.
 
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PAR said:
Davis almost beat a ultra talented LSU squad with 2nd and third teamers while at unc with 20 something guys suspended or whatever it was. that performance is comparable or better than anything richt has done since he's been here.
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Loose Cannon said:
Actually, after the death of Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, All of Greece united against the Persian invasion, destroying a large portion of their naval fleet in the Battle of Salamis. THEN the Persian army suffered their land defeat in the Pelopponnese at the hands of not the Spartan city-state, but a united confederation of all of the Greek city-states at Battle of Plataea. The Greeks followed them back into the sea and destroyed the remainder of the Persian fleet in Battle of Mycale.

King Leonidas and the Spartans didn't win anything. They merely delayed the Persian advance at Thermopylae for seven days before being completely annihilated. Athenian General Themistocles confederated the city-states of Greece against the Persian army after their fleet landed at Marathon and burned Athens to the ground. The united Greek army under the command of Themistocles won the war.
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You’ll have to excuse @UMFarArcher ... he gets his history lessons from Hollywood movies and “graphic novels” (comic books).

He thinks the battle just happened exactly as it was depicted in the cartoon movie “300”

Would probably tell you that the “this is Sparta” scene actually happened and is historically accurate. lol
 
With margin of victory being a key component of the 2000 BCS system, Butch Lombardi Davis allowed Louisiana Tech to come in and do whatever they wanted while gaining 485 yards and scoring 31 points. His disciplined Miami Hurricanes committed 12 penalties for 102 yards. The very next week, Louisiana Tech would score 16 points against UCF.

While we were holding off LT, Florida State went on the road and beat #20 NC State 58-14. Florida State jumped up to #3 while we dropped a spot to #5. We would, of course, finish behind FSU in the final rankings.

Louisiana Freaking Tech.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
You’ll have to excuse @UMFarArcher ... he gets his history lessons from Hollywood movies and “graphic novels” (comic books).

He thinks the battle just happened exactly as it was depicted in the cartoon movie “300”

Would probably tell you that the “this is Sparta” scene actually happened and is historically accurate. lol
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You are such an authority on things you don't know the first thing about - that's quite a talent.

The only two things I saw in the movie that approached reality was that the Greeks/Thesbians/etc., did in fact use eight-footers (spears) and their greaves were made of bronze. Not one other thing approached reality.

The Spartan shield was not for the man who hefted it - but to cover the man next to him -and they never - ever - broke their tight ranks - which is why they were so successful.

The largest Empire of their world was invading - and while there were 300 Spartans, there were roughly 6,700 other Greeks - and at the end, only the surviving Spartans and surviving Thesbians (black cloaks) remained and died in place.

Original - your knowledge is indicative of a lower level reading comprehension, the ability to ignore facts, the ability to select only a few facts to skew your point of view, the ability to focus on one, small tidbit while ignoring the entire panorama of other facts, and the ability to digest concepts at the level of a three year old.

My library takes up the walls of three rooms - and if one is curious - I can provide everything from the complete works of Euripides, Homer, Aristotle, Thucycides, Herodotus, Galen, Caesar, and every classic author you can name - The Egyptian Book of the Dead - all the way up to the Anarchist Cookbook, writings of Tu Mu, Li Chuan, Yen Tzu and several other Chinese historians.

You stick to your cartoons and movies for perspective.

Just know there are actually adults here as well - and the childish crap of yours grows thin.
 
PAR said:
Meaningless. The fact that he was able to keep I=close and dam near win shows something. Not my problem you cant look beyond the scoreboard.
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Do you know how many coaches have "almost" won a big game?

Here's another gem from that year: Butch took that same team in the same season and lost to Randy Shannon 33-10.
 
Jaromir Jagr said:
With margin of victory being a key component of the 2000 BCS system, Butch Lombardi Davis allowed Louisiana Tech to come in and do whatever they wanted while gaining 485 yards and scoring 31 points. His disciplined Miami Hurricanes committed 12 penalties for 102 yards. The very next week, Louisiana Tech would score 16 points against UCF.

While we were holding off LT, Florida State went on the road and beat #20 NC State 58-14. Florida State jumped up to #3 while we dropped a spot to #5. We would, of course, finish behind FSU in the final rankings.

Louisiana Freaking Tech.
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It always felt like throughout all our runs we would get up and motivated for the big teams and make a name as the giant slayer. Then over look some little team that we should beat easy and either lose or almost lose to them. The way people talk around here in order to prop up the past and bash the present makes me wonder if either I or them are miss-remembering history. They make it seem like those previous teams and coaches came walking in on water and never dropped a game.

Seems like at this point they are going to cry about the LSU loss until eternity no matter what happens now or in the future.
 
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UMFarArcher said:
You are such an authority on things you don't know the first thing about - that's quite a talent.

The only two things I saw in the movie that approached reality was that the Greeks/Thesbians/etc., did in fact use eight-footers (spears) and their greaves were made of bronze. Not one other thing approached reality.

The Spartan shield was not for the man who hefted it - but to cover the man next to him -and they never - ever - broke their tight ranks - which is why they were so successful.

The largest Empire of their world was invading - and while there were 300 Spartans, there were roughly 6,700 other Greeks - and at the end, only the surviving Spartans and surviving Thesbians (black cloaks) remained and died in place.

Original - your knowledge is indicative of a lower level reading comprehension, the ability to ignore facts, the ability to select only a few facts to skew your point of view, the ability to focus on one, small tidbit while ignoring the entire panorama of other facts, and the ability to digest concepts at the level of a three year old.

My library takes up the walls of three rooms - and if one is curious - I can provide everything from the complete works of Euripides, Homer, Aristotle, Thucycides, Herodotus, Galen, Caesar, and every classic author you can name - The Egyptian Book of the Dead - all the way up to the Anarchist Cookbook, writings of Tu Mu, Li Chuan, Yen Tzu and several other Chinese historians.

You stick to your cartoons and movies for perspective.

Just know there are actually adults here as well - and the childish crap of yours grows thin.
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Yall don't know that FArchie literally wrote the book on how to win wars.

I mean literally in the literal sense.

I am still owed an autographed copy of which I have see neither hide nor hair.
 
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