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Who remembers "Rod Smith" circa 2001-2006?

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Guess who is Illinois offensive coordinator?

https://fightingillini.com/coaches.aspx?rc=935&path=football

For those who don't know Rod was USF's offensive coordinator back in 2005- 2006.  He was the OC when USF went to Morgantown and beat #7  West Virginia.

Then at the end of the season, Rich Rod snatched up Rod Smith from USF. Bear in mind Rich and Rod and worked together in the past. :)

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Yes, Wooly is still here. I'm generally working covert intercept operations, so I do more gathering than publishing.  I remember the Beef O'Brady's evening. Wanting ECU to win, sending us to our

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Who can forget VooDoo 5 ....

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You are right on both counts.  And I think it would have been the Hawaii Bowl.  

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Who can forget VooDoo 5 ....

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Rich Rod is now bagging groceries at Food Lion somewhere in West Virginia mountain country. 

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24 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Rich Rod is now bagging groceries at Food Lion somewhere in West Virginia mountain country. 

Correction Piggly Wiggly not Food Lion

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Rich Rod didn't make of with a bag, like most fired head coaches?  I think they tried to show cause, that he created a hostile work environment, walking around the office in a towel, but not sure how that ended up.  I should know, it's out here in the desert, but I didn't care.  It was no "hot dog" environment out here...if you know what I mean.

So the other Rod, of the Smith variety, I certainly remember.  I did not realize he was at Illinois, but I did see that Hardy Nickerson was there.  Interesting confluence of Tampa football people at Illinois.

 

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1 hour ago, Brad said:

Rich Rod didn't make of with a bag, like most fired head coaches?  I think they tried to show cause, that he created a hostile work environment, walking around the office in a towel, but not sure how that ended up.  I should know, it's out here in the desert, but I didn't care.  It was no "hot dog" environment out here...if you know what I mean.

So the other Rod, of the Smith variety, I certainly remember.  I did not realize he was at Illinois, but I did see that Hardy Nickerson was there.  Interesting confluence of Tampa football people at Illinois.

 

I think Hardy was coached by Lovie when he was Buc?

Hey Brad--- how tempted are you to merge this thread with .....

What one USF loss made/makes you the most upset?

 

just kidding-- interesting to know he is at Illinois now. I never had an axe to grind about him but some people on here used to absolutely hate his play calling-- he was our OC for that 2004 Army game iirc

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I remember he sat with a group of us at Beef O'Brady's on Fowler while the team watched a C-USA game in another room hoping that (I believe-someone help me here) UConn would win the game so we would get our first bowl invitation.  He was a good guy, Voodoo 5 notwithstanding.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Ricky the Bull said:

I remember he sat with a group of us at Beef O'Brady's on Fowler while the team watched a C-USA game in another room hoping that (I believe-someone help me here) UConn would win the game so we would get our first bowl invitation.  He was a good guy, Voodoo 5 notwithstanding.

 

 

I think it was ECU that we needed to win-- pretty sure I was there too. Very last game of the season and an ECU win would mean CUSA wouldn't have enough bowl eligible teams and let us slide into the spot with a 9-2 record. 9-2 and we didn't get a bowl bid. Ridiculous.

It was one of those teams at the bottom of the schedule....

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/cusa/2002-schedule.html

can't recall the specifics though

 

 

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4 minutes ago, MikeG said:

I think it was ECU that we needed to win-- pretty sure I was there too

You are right on both counts.  And I think it would have been the Hawaii Bowl.

 

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8 hours ago, MikeG said:

I think it was ECU that we needed to win-- pretty sure I was there too. Very last game of the season and an ECU win would mean CUSA wouldn't have enough bowl eligible teams and let us slide into the spot with a 9-2 record. 9-2 and we didn't get a bowl bid. Ridiculous.

It was one of those teams at the bottom of the schedule....

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/cusa/2002-schedule.html

can't recall the specifics though

 

 

ECU vs Cincy...needed ECU to win 

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