Remember the Maine!.....

[thekimmer]

Well the infamous Maine Bears return to Vegas this weekend in a different sport. The name alone however drags up painful memories. Stomping a mudhole in them three times might provide a bit of catharsis but nothing can ever erase the scar courtesy of croom et al.

Stomping a mudhole in them doesn't appear to be too difficult as the bears will come into DNF at 0-10 on the season. At one time they had a decent baseball program. I remember playing them in a regional. Will this be the first time we have played them in anything since the gridiron debacle?

 

[MS-halfstep]

This maybe a bit controversial, but hear me out. I think enough time has passed that somebody should have invited Sly to throw out the first pitch against Maine. He could even ride the golf cart out to the mound. A peace offering to the dead injuns and such.

 

[thekimmer]

I really like the idea but way too risky....

This maybe a bit controversial, but hear me out. I think enough time has passed that somebody should have invited Sly to throw out the first pitch against Maine. He could even ride the golf cart out to the mound. A peace offering to the dead injuns and such.

All would lighthearted and funny unless......Maine actually won a game or, heaven help us, won two. Then if croom made it out of town he would have to go into the witness protection program and State fans would divert millions intended for the bulldog club on years of therapy.

It would be a classic moment though. Chances are the walrus wouldn't connect the dots and realize he was being spoofed.

 

[missouridawg]

Revenge SZN

 

[msudawg1200]

Stomping a mudhole in them doesn't appear to be too difficult as the bears will come into DNF at 0-10 on the season. At one time they had a decent baseball program. I remember playing them in a regional. Will this be the first time we have played them in anything since the gridiron debacle?[/QUOTE]

During the 80's they went to the CWS like 4 or 5 times. I remember them being very formidable back in the day. Looking at their recent history they have been to a Regional 4 times in the last 20 years. This seems to be an extraordinarily bad Maine team.

 

[Miketice]

This maybe a bit controversial, but hear me out. I think enough time has passed that somebody should have invited Sly to throw out the first pitch against Maine. He could even ride the golf cart out to the mound. A peace offering to the dead injuns and such.

LOL. I love it

 

[Xenomorph]

But...

 

[WilCoDawg]

I can just imagine him rolling out in a bright red polo buttoned to the top and yelling, “Roll State!” after the pitch.

 

[MaxwellSmart]

Somebody needs to put a peepin' Croom, looking over the outfield fence.

 

[Pilgrimdawg]

Somebody needs to put a peepin' Croom, looking over the outfield fence.

THIS needs to happen! It would be a classic.

 

[She Mate Me]

Maine went to 5 CWS's in 6 years from 1981 to 1986 (we had some decent teams then too**).

They were mainly getting there because Regionals really were regional then and they were coming out of the Northeast.

Here's how they did per something called Wikipedia...

"The 1981 appearance was the first of four consecutive trips to Omaha, winning the Northeast Regional (which it often hosted) on several occasions. The Black Bears also reached the CWS in 1986, their first 40-win season. At the CWS, the team went 0–2 in 1983, 1984, and 1986, but finished second in 1982. After losing its opener to Miami, it notched losers bracket wins against Cal State Fullerton, Wichita State, and Stanford before being knocked out by Miami. Bob Whalen, who went on to become the head coach at Dartmouth, was an assistant to Winkin during these four appearances."

 

[TheStateUofMS]

I remember tuning into that game late in the ball game as a youngster and hearing Jack call out the score since games weren't on TV as much back then. Jacked shocked me. Then he said we were punting. Reality set in at that moment that would last what seemed like an eternity.

It wasn't until Greg Byrne came along.

Thank God for basketball during that stretch or we would have had absolutely nothing going for us athletically.

 

[msudawg1200]

Holy crap I actually looked up the play by play chart on ESPN. After taking a 7-0 lead we got to the Maine 6 and after penalties backed us up missed a 32 yard FG. We got a pick the next drive and fumbled on the Maine 3. After we ran it 5 straight times from the 50 to the Maine 14, Omarr Conner threw a pick. In the 4th with seven minutes left and up 7-3 we fumbled on the Maine 2. Maine had 130 yards up to that point, but went 80 yards to take the lead after reaching our territory only twice before that. We then punted with 1:16 left, got the ball back on our 34 with 15 seconds left, and got it to the Maine 46 as time ran out. So, we got inside the Maine 10 four times and didn’t score. I remember having tickets but deciding not to go at the last minute. I listened to the whole shameful event through Jack. What a Charlie Foxtrot.

 

[She Mate Me]

Holy crap I actually looked up the play by play chart on ESPN. After taking a 7-0 lead we got to the Maine 6 and after penalties backed us up missed a 32 yard FG. We got a pick the next drive and fumbled on the Maine 3. After we ran it 5 straight times from the 50 to the Maine 14, Omarr Conner threw a pick. In the 4th with seven minutes left and up 7-3 we fumbled on the Maine 2. Maine had 130 yards up to that point, but went 80 yards to take the lead after reaching our territory only twice before that. We then punted with 1:16 left, got the ball back on our 34 with 15 seconds left, and got it to the Maine 46 as time ran out. So, we got inside the Maine 10 four times and didn’t score. I remember having tickets but deciding not to go at the last minute. I listened to the whole shameful event through Jack. What a Charlie Foxtrot.

I was actually a guest in a skybox for that game. As bad as those Croom days were, we were clearly the better team that night.

It was an extreme slow motion train wreck to the end.

 

[CoolDawg]

I still don't find anything at all funny about losing to Maine, hence I would be totally opposed to Croom setting foot at DNF or anywhere else on the MSU campus. His entire tenure at State was an unmitigated disaster and I don't want to think about or relive any moment of it. I look back nostagically at every other era of football, I have even gotten over Tech and ten, but for some reason I cannot look back at Croom with anything but malice.

 

[Todd4State]

Maine went to 5 CWS's in 6 years from 1981 to 1986 (we had some decent teams then too**).

They were mainly getting there because Regionals really were regional then and they were coming out of the Northeast.

Here's how they did per something called Wikipedia...

"The 1981 appearance was the first of four consecutive trips to Omaha, winning the Northeast Regional (which it often hosted) on several occasions. The Black Bears also reached the CWS in 1986, their first 40-win season. At the CWS, the team went 0–2 in 1983, 1984, and 1986, but finished second in 1982. After losing its opener to Miami, it notched losers bracket wins against Cal State Fullerton, Wichita State, and Stanford before being knocked out by Miami. Bob Whalen, who went on to become the head coach at Dartmouth, was an assistant to Winkin during these four appearances."

I remember MSU actually playing in a regional in Maine in the early 1990's. Historically they have a good program. Similar to Minnesota.

 

[patdog]

I remember that too. Stephen King lives there and is a big Black Bear fan. He hosted our team for dinner one night. Maine was a regular CWS participant in the 1980s, but were helped by the fact regionals were more regional back then. A typical example is 1983, they won a regional consisting of Maine, Temple, Harvard, and NYIT.

 

[campshelbydog842003]

I still don't find anything at all funny about losing to Maine, hence I would be totally opposed to Croom setting foot at DNF or anywhere else on the MSU campus. His entire tenure at State was an unmitigated disaster and I don't want to think about or relive any moment of it. I look back nostagically at every other era of football, I have even gotten over Tech and ten, but for some reason I cannot look back at Croom with anything but malice.

I agree. He was an awful head coach that tried to place blame on MSU for firing him in the end. He had as many arrests as Jackie's teams and willingly had us playing with about 60 scholarship players for his first 2 years. The idea that you have to kick everyone off the team and bring in your own guys is absolutely moronic. Giving yourself the self imposed death penalty to do it "the right way" and still have just as many off the field issues was absolutely insane. There was a reason that everyone else passed on him after they interviewed him.

 

[VegasDawg13]

I was actually a guest in a skybox for that game. As bad as those Croom days were, we were clearly the better team that night.

It was an extreme slow motion train wreck to the end.

This is why the loss to Tulane the following year was the actual low point of the Croom Era. The Maine loss, while embarrassing, required every little thing to go wrong. Homeless Tulane just straight up beat us.