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Final Play Of The 2007 UNC Game From Student Section

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43 Responses to Final Play Of The 2007 UNC Game From Student Section

WolfAce 11/11/2007 at 11:43 PM #

Excellent capturing of the emotion and excitement of that last play, reminds me of the end of a certain basketball game a little while back….

and how about a little bit of alma mater, band, and player celebration shortly after that play, I think DaJuan Morgan echos what just about the entire stadium was feeling at that moment:
rky 11/11/2007 at 11:54 PM #

Seeing this gives me hope for the future of mankind!
NCSU2WFU 11/12/2007 at 12:29 AM #

this clip makes my soul smile… all is right with the world
thebigwood 11/12/2007 at 1:43 AM #

I was tailgating for the USC/Florida game and me and about ten other Gamecock fans were watching that game on someone’s remote satellite hookup. We celebrated like that too, but on a smaller scale of course. It was awesome. What a difference a year makes.
old_pcorone 11/12/2007 at 3:19 AM #

And that is why I love College Football!
Keystone 11/12/2007 at 10:32 AM #

I don’t know if this has been posted elsewhere, but in the north endzone at the end of the game, all of the students were chanting the quick N-C-State cheer in unison. None of the NNNNNNN-CCCCCCC-Staaaaaaate stuff. Definitely an awesome moment.
highstick 11/12/2007 at 12:27 PM #

TheBigOne-wish I’d known where you were. I lost the radio signal on the way to Columbia, but my son kept calling me with the score.

What a miserable game that was in Columbia! I’ve never done it before, but left at halftime hoping I could get home and watch a State replay that night, but never found it.
Sw0rdf1sh 11/12/2007 at 12:42 PM #

I’ve never left a game as with such a hoarse throat as I did on Saturday.

It was a scratchy reminder the next morning as I slipped on my Pack slippers too.

What a moment in Pack sports!
Ismael 11/12/2007 at 1:03 PM #

i commented somewhere else that…the way the game ended it did a couple of things.

1. After UNC-CH lucked up and took the lead you know that made ‘hole fans absolutely happy. We score, so that kills them again, then they convert that long 4th down, they get happy again and start to believe. Brandon Tate makes a miracle catch after a miracle-throw by Yates to get to the 7, then 4 times for the EndZone and it ends on the last play…the pain for them must have been priceless.

2. For us, the real fans, we would have all had the equally opposite reaction on each play…but what made it 3x sweeter was exactly how it ended, as hard as it was to watch. For it to be so painful to your rival, it has to be a little scary for you.

3. There’s a modicum of revenge for 2004 where we dominated that game up and down the field too, i never realized we had 304yds rushing that game, that game made me so sick i never bothered to check the stats and ive only seen in because its the only game in the past 15 years where the team with the better rushing total lost.

4. Watching (on the internet) that looked and had all the feel of the biggest rivalries in the SEC or Big10. The students and fans were absolutely wild looking on TV. It was loud. And the jumping up and down in the student section ala the Cameron Crazies looked amazing on TV, they certainly caught the rivalry game feel, so props to ESPN or whoever worked the cameras.

4a. Two big time recruits were there, Mattes and J.T. Floyd, i am sure they had a blast.
skywalkerdt 11/12/2007 at 1:09 PM #

for those with allegiance to the PACK and the gamecocks I should state my feeling of a jinx that only one of my teams is allowed by fate to perform well at a time. proof in point: the morning of Oct 20 the gamecocks are 6-1 and ranked #6 in the nation, the pack are 1-5. Fast forward to this morning the gamecocks are 6-5 and the pack are 5-5.
the crazy world we live in!
WolftownVA81 11/12/2007 at 1:59 PM #

CF looked great on TV with that Sea of RED. I was a little disapointed that all the seats weren’t filled by kickoff but shortly after, even the student nose bleed seats were full. The atmospher was caught very well by the TV crew. Also, we could hear all the cheers on TV including the First Down Chant. I’ve never been so excited to watch a game on TV at home. It was closer than I’d hoped but it was a thriller to watch. Great game Pack – Lets make it 6 in row.
choppack1 11/12/2007 at 2:02 PM #

The atmosphere was fantastic – and those last moments were as stressful as it gets. Good clip…You can tell we’re a shellshocked fanbase. Every big play, we were looking for flags.
GAWolf 11/12/2007 at 2:08 PM #

Fantastic! I was in a box with several Carolina fans. Even before that last play I kept making them scan the stadium to see what true football fans looked like. Sadly enough for them, they had to agree. From way up there it was an awesome sight. The place was packed, it was loud and we truly deserved (the players AND the fans) to win that game.

I could have strangled Bible when he kept throwing the ball with our running game getting what seemed to be 5 yards a carry. The first half the play calling was just awesome… the second half minus our last drive… it was pretty rank. It was good, however, to see the adjustment on that last drive.

Great game, great day for football, great win for the Pack.

Best of all… I got my picture with Sid in the box. Me and my pissed off Carolina wife and Sid. She had to smile, and I know that hurt. All in all, a spectacular fall Saturday in Raleigh…
GAWolf 11/12/2007 at 2:16 PM #

We need to start howling as a collective group on certain plays or at kickoff. It would be fun, loud and easy.
redfred2 11/12/2007 at 2:23 PM #

^The Chancellor’s box no less, eh GaWolf?
GAWolf 11/12/2007 at 2:31 PM #

Umm. No. We were two boxes over and crashed their party to get a picture with Sid. They seemed somewhat not happy about it, and I can honestly understand. The wife has a picture of her and Roy and her and Dean in a frame from a Rams Club function she went to a couple of years ago. We had to have a picture of Sid or the fungshway just could not be right in our new home.

I really don’t think it was the Chancellor’s box. Perhaps it was but I believed it to be a big booster from Charlotte. They were pretty tolerant of our intrusion. We greatly appreciated it. Sid was just as cool as he could be. I love that guy.
bTHEredterror 11/12/2007 at 3:00 PM #

GAWolf, I was impressed with Bible’s playcalling except on the second picksix. Primarily because I was seeing visions of a run only 93 yard drive to snap the back of our enemies.

For me, that would have been the sweetest win. An emasculating, yeah-you-know-what’s-coming-and can’t-do-a-thing-about-it, doubtless victory.

But I’ll accept the win we got and its karmic release. 4’s as good as 40.
bTHEredterror 11/12/2007 at 3:01 PM #

Oh, the howling idea is great. It would be unique to our fanbase, and it feels good to howl!
noah 11/12/2007 at 4:14 PM #

On the first interception, all Evans had to do was look to his right. Jamelle Eugene had released into the flat and had enough room to get the first down. If Evans just flips it out there, it’s first and goal inside the 10.
noah 11/12/2007 at 4:28 PM #

Actually, I just looked at it again. Stone had released on that side. Evans just didn’t set his feet. If he hits Stone, there’s no one around him. It wasn’t a bad call, it was just a terrible throw.
bTHEredterror 11/12/2007 at 4:30 PM #

I didn’t see it, I was watching the lineplay and looked up on release of the ball. But I can understand why Evans looks to Stone when he’s in trouble. Although I say any chance to get Eugene in broken field is a great play.
bTHEredterror 11/12/2007 at 4:32 PM #

Noah-His footwork is easily his biggest area of weakness. And he won’t step into a throw when a big hit is coming. He throws sidearmed off the back leg and there ya go, a floating meatball for a cornerback in the flats.
BJD95 11/12/2007 at 5:38 PM #

The second pick was a terrible decision. Evans forced the ball into a tight seam – and even if completed, it’s nowhere near a first down. At that point in the game, I just take the 3 points and go up a full TD, so I would have ran the ball.
Ismael 11/12/2007 at 5:47 PM #

If you notice on both of those INT’s…Evans kind of turns his whole head and body and just has one of those “oh what the hell, i’ll just toss it out there” looks to his body, almost like he gave up on the play. MANNN, i wish he would of just took a sack. Both of those INT’s came on 3rd and 6 and 8 respectively. I don’t fault him.

Exactly Noah, Stone was open, he just overthrew him. The attempted to pass to Bedics, (Durrell Mapp, who looked all-world yesterday) it was just a good play on the ball. That was a poor decision by Evans.

And yes, “thank you” to the guys who were baffled that we threw the ball on that 2nd pick 6 when we had just run it down their yellow-bellied throats all over the field. Eugene and Underwood rocked the joint.

TOB in his presser today said something that, wasn’t sure if someone asked him about this issue, but he said, “we have a sophomore and a true-freshman as our running backs, our WR’s are our best players and so we were looking for ways to get them the ball.”

Bowens is a beast. He’s like a linebacker mentality as a WR. I love how he caught that one pass, did a juke-move like a great point guard and then ran down and tried to run over the UNC-CH (a directional school) safety.

Speaking of Durrell Mapp, he had a phenomenal game and one in which i wish more and more of the really good kids would stay in-state and play for one of the schools (obviously with the recruiting edge ALWAYS going to NCSU) but Mapp is from Burlington, Martrel Brown is from Maxton, etc.etc. and you know this makes this rivalry just different. Did anyone see the dirty play by Mapp. This is the play on the last NCSU TD drive where Mapp stops Eugene just short of the goal and as he’s getting up, he gives him a forearm shiver to the chest/throat.

I also noticed yesterday that on tackles, it looked like Tarhole players like the CB’s and Safeties were trying to apply maximum pain on tackles, some of it just looked a little dirtier than what i’m accustomed to seeing, but if its legal, oh well

The play that almost made me vomit was when Evans had Bedics and Kushner wide open in the end zone and he hits the Defensive end in the hands with the ball…i don’t think ive ever seen that.
LRM 11/12/2007 at 5:48 PM #

This is a real test this weekend. We’ve won in Winston once (’01) since 1995.