And BTW, if Grier had been out against us, they would've been down to their 3rd string QB (whoever that is), since Harris was suspended. At least in theory. Maybe McElwain would've pulled a herban and held off suspending him for a week.
Good point. I definitely agree about beating them regardless of QB, and ...it's about time we do!, but I'd still rather it's Harris.
Heck, they probably don't beat us with Grier and he was cheating, so IMO it's just that he sit the full suspension. But I certainly am not counting on it.
Following up on your point about winning regardless, most of that karma accrued under Fulmer.
He should have won, IMO, 1-2 of the games from 95-97.
He definitely should have won most if not all of 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2006, but to give him credit he evened the series with SOS from 98-01 and even got an advantage counting the Zook years.
Since Fulmer was let go, we really were pretty overmatched against them no matter how good or bad they were until just the last two years.
And as frustrating as those years have been, Butch has demonstrated that we can at least stay on the field with them. I am confident about next year's game. I feel the staff and team have learned from the embarassments against OU and UF and they have to come into our house.
I think we likely spank Va Tech and come into that game with tremendous momentum, and finally break the streak.
He didn't last that long against Herban, but once Herban took o