Remembering some GP teams - 2001

[geefrogs]

Would love to hear what yall remember from these teams. Thought I'd start where it all began. A 6-6 inaugural full season for Patterson.

Games that stand out:

- Big season opener on ABC versus big, bad Nebraska and Eric Crouch. Watched it in Clark Hall. Enjoyed seeing our defense hold them to 21 but our offense was clearly overmatched. 21-7 loss.

- followed up with a road game in Denton! Much smaller crowd and well, a 19-5 final score tells you all you need to know. (3 road games to start the season!)

- HOME OPENER in front of 30,000 fans! and we lost to Northwestern State in overtime. Man, that was a deflating experience for sure. 27-24

- We struggled through the C-USA schedule (loss at Tulane, loss to East Carolina, loss at UAB)

- end of the season, glimmer of hope. The victory over RANKED Louisville and then the slugfest over Southern Miss to get into a bowl game.

- The galleryfurniture.com bowl against Aggie in the Astrodome. The infamous CP game.

 

[geefrogs]

Some guys to remember:

our QB, for better for worse.

a young Ricky Madison, injuries would shut him down 2 years later.

Adrian Madise and LaTerence Dunbar had their moments.

Matt Schobel. Didnt put up big numbers but ended up being drafted in the 3rd round by Cincy!!

 

[geefrogs]

LaMarcus McDonald makes the leap.

The secondary would be hot and cold all season. Jason Goss tried his best! Also a freshman would arrive Marvin Godbolt.

D-Line was scrappy with dudes like Robert Pollard, Bo Schobel and the 2 Chads.

Definitely a transition year for Patterson. Can you imagine going 6-6 like that your first year in todays climate? Sheesh.

 

[Bonner4Prez]

Best Kept Secret in College Football

 

[Spike]

Not a great year but my first year to have a normal schedule in forever. Saw all the home games plus all 4 Texas road trips. University of North Texas was my first Frog road game. Definitely played to the level of competition. Gave Nebraska fits and beat #17 Louisville here and USM at the Rock. Lost to NWLA and Tulane.

Also discovered Killerfrogs that year and have met a ton of great people on here.

Thanks for starting this post.

 

[Zubaz]

That Thursday night game against ECU was pretty fun. David Garrard was their QB. Stilley got the start of I recall, but was largely ineffective. Printers almost got us back but we came up a little short at the end.

 

[Dman890]

The Nebraska game was great / back then being on abc was a big deal and it was our first game post LT.

 

[Spike]

That Thursday night game against ECU was pretty fun. David Garrard was their QB. Stilley got the start of I recall, but was largely ineffective. Printers almost got us back but we came up a little short at the end.

That game was so cold in the upper deck. Almost left at the half. Discovered that nice little vacuum under the upper deck where it was significantly warmer and toughed it out.

 

[geefrogs]

Heres that Season Opener. Young Gary

 

[geefrogs]

2001 bowl game. Rob Stone doesn't age.

 

[Shannon Locke]

Me and my buddy actually drove up to watch the Nebraska game. Printers got hurt after the game was tied at 7. Thought we might have had a chance if he would have stayed healthy. Defense played great, Nebraska basically played the game on our side of the 50 but Godbolt had like 7 stops of Crouch for losses. Nebraska fans were actually yelling out to try to run now every time Godbolt left the game. Tough season overall, but the Frogs fought hard.

 

[KTown Frog]

Aww, the good ol shirt side option.

 

[bronco]

Godbolt! What a talent. Can't remember what happened but didn't he only play one year?

 

[tyler durden]

Crouch said that blindside sack from Goldbolt was the hardest he’d ever been hit.

 

[Frognosticator]

2001 bowl game. Rob Stone doesn't age.

Ah what great memories! Like when the defense stopped the aggies on 4th and goal from the 1, just to have Printers throw a pick on the very next play which they returned right back to our 1.

 

[Zubaz]

2001 bowl game. Rob Stone doesn't age.

There are a few games I won't ever re-watch. The 2008 Utah game, the 2009/10 Fiesta Bowl, 2014 Baylor.....this game is definitely on that list. I had my wisdom teeth out two days before we flew down from New England for the game, ended up with an infection after getting back. Brutal, brutal day.

 

[MTfrog5]

I was camping and my dad and I watched the Nebraska game on a 12” TV with some foil on the antennas. Remember Crouch talking about how sore he would be and gave the defense tons of credit. Us beating I think ECU to finish the year gave Nebraska a boost in the bcs and to play Miami at the Rose Bowl

 

[Zubaz]

I was camping and my dad and I watched the Nebraska game on a 12” TV with some foil on the antennas. Remember Crouch talking about how sore he would be and gave the defense tons of credit. Us beating I think ECU to finish the year gave Nebraska a boost in the bcs and to play Miami at the Rose Bowl

Southern Miss. Great game.

 

[geefrogs]

If I remember correctly, this was our first year in CUSA. We had played So Miss in the 2000 Mobile Bowl and it always seemed that TCU and So Miss had the best D in the conference.

 

[Zubaz]

If I remember correctly, this was our first year in CUSA. We had played So Miss in the 2000 Mobile Bowl and it always seemed that TCU and So Miss had the best D in the conference.

Yeah, it was weird that our prior two bowl games were against ECU and Southern Miss then we were in their conference. Then we went to the Liberty Bowl against CSU and two years later we are in their conference. Then the first year in MWC we play a bowl game against Iowa State....

What I'm saying is that our bowl games against Stanford, Cal, and Oregon might be predictive.