T-Shirts?
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2015 6:42 am
Does any one know if the bookstore is selling any kind of specially designed play-off T-Shirts?
Fling out the Purple and the Gold, We're Marching On.
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I think it depends on the criteria that you're looking at probably. I essentially had a front-row seat for the Stecker years (and of course, attended nearly every game since then, so I saw '02/'03 too), and while Stecker was the best pure RB we've ever had (#1 and #4 best rushing seasons, #3 on the all-time list despite only playing 2 years), and there were a couple other very solid players on some of those teams, I think we had a bit more talent spread out across the whole team in '02. The QBs in the late '90s (Hecklinski and Zanders) were decent, but Michna in '02 and '03 just tore things up. Before Michna, we'd only had one 3000+ yard passing season for a QB (in the Div. I era), Paul Singer in '88 (the first playoff team), then Michna goes and does it in back to back years, setting the season record in '03 (that was only surpassed in 2010 by Matt Barr). In '02 we had the 1-2 punch of Attley Lawson and Travis Glasford as RBs. Neither blew up quite like Stecker did, but together they were very effective, each rushing for 65+ yards per game. Stacy Coleman was our top receiver that year. I'd actually forgotten his name, but went to look it up and realized that he'd had the second best receiving season we've ever had behind Lito Senatus in 2010 (and one of only 5 1000+ yard receiving seasons ever), plus it was the first year of Reggie Gray...didn't have many yards his first year, but did have flashes of what he'd eventually become, including a long of 72.Leatherneck177 wrote:Which by the way, that 2002 team might have been the best team Western has had, with 2003 coming in a close second in my opinion. I know those that were there during the Aaron Stecker years might disagree.
Somewhat. The problem is that honestly, I don't remember. I feel like the crowds back then were pretty good, and I know we had good crowds in the early '00s, but I also know that there was a game in '03 (Homecoming, I believe...it was against SIU, ranked #7 at the time) where we have listed that the attendance was 19,287. I remember the crowd being good, but I don't remember it being THAT huge. With that many people, literally every seat in the stadium is filled, as well as a few thousand people in the end zones and on the hills. Maybe someone else can chime in who remembers that game better than I do, but I don't know if we ever actually got more than maybe 16k people. There's multiple ways of counting attendance (see FBS teams like Eastern Michigan that pull in numbers like we do...5k-7k a game, but find creative ways of selling tickets without actually putting people in the stands to get them to the FBS minimum of 15k average once every two years). So I don't know if those numbers were "tickets sold", "butts in seats", "bodies through the gates", or what...each would likely be a different number.Leatherneck177 wrote:I was down there 2000-2003 football seasons. So yes I'm biased, but your hit the nail on the head. Used to be in the south end zone for all games. It really got pretty full in that end zone in 2003. Crowds were great and it seemed like Western had every game in hand midway through third quarter. Good times.
Did Western draw that way in the Stecker years?