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Link: Notre Dame vs. Miami 1990: Closing Out a Contentious Era
He kept pounding on his thigh pads and you knew if he got the ball something was going to happen.
Never heard anything as loud as when the rocket took that kick back. Unbelievable.
I remember calling my dad from a pay phone and telling him I was ready to go into the stadium and how jacked up the campus was.
I believe Craig Ericson was QB for Miami and terrific. just a great game
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They had the best 1-2 punch of starting receivers that year in the way of Randall "The Thrill" Hill and Wesley Carroll, both of those guys becoming NFL starters. The memory of Randall Hill burning Stan Smagala and Pat Terrell on 3rd and 44 the year before was still fresh in everyone's minds. To be fair, Hill burnt almost every cornerback he faced.
They had a lot of speedy studs on defense as well. Several of those excellent linebackers were recruited as safeties or cornerbacks, and converted to LB. I don't think I had ever seen a quartet of linebackers who could run that fast as a group during that era, and all of them except Maurice Crum ended up becoming NFL starters as well.
I wasn't impressed at all, though, with Russell Maryland, the #1 pick in the 1991 draft. The right side of our O-line absolutely humiliated him and made him a non-factor that game. I'll acknowledge that he was a solid NFL player, even getting a Pro Bowl appearance, but he just didn't seem to be anywhere nearly as fearsome as Cortez Kennedy was the year before.
bridal dance. The bride was a little upset about that!
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