Couch was not a bust IMO..Look at his stats as he got progressively better each year until he got hurt..he just had the misfortune of being the first quarterback of a new franchise...
My dad took me to this game when i was 7, don't remember much but the crowd being insanely loud and the goal posts demolished. When couch went to the browns when i was 9 i became a browns fan. Little did i know that 12 years later I'd be living in Cleveland. Couch is still an idol here it's pretty cool.
Tim Couch was the most accurate passer I ever watched. Mumme's system inflated his numbers a lot, hence the number one pick, but the guy could put it where he wanted. When he had protection, which he did not at Cleveland.
I was six when this game occured... and we had to go to a pub to watch the game because we didn't have cable and we had moved to Ohio 3 years before... I remember being looked at by people in the pub as if we were from a foriegn country :D
i listened to this game on radio with my Dad. seems like a lifetime ago with all the stuff we got today to watch games. I think thefans have ran on the field 5 times. Bama 97, uga (?), Ul, 06, Lsu 06, and the one time i was there to run on the field UT 2011!!!!!!
Jake Mackie you are correct except your dates are a little off. UGA was in 06, UL and LSU were both in 07. I was lucky enough to be at this Alabama game and the UGA game in 06.
lol they ran on the field against LSU one other time too only to look dumbfounded as hell when they realized that Devery Henderson actually caught that ball and LSU won.
Two links to the expansion Cleveland Browns played in this game.... Tim Couch (Kentucky QB), later the Browns first round draft pick in 1999, and (while not shown) Freddie Kitchens (Alabama QB), now the new head coach of the Browns. Thanks for the upload.
My roommate came home with a 6 inch piece of the goal posts. One or more pipes got carried out of the stadium to an afterparty and cut up with acetylene torches into small pieces.
This was on my Eight Birthday on October 4, 1997 I had a birthday party with my Classmates from Avondale Elementary School when i was in second grade when Kentucky beat Alabama, this marks the beginning of the Post-Stallings era
People laugh at Kentucky, and they should because the football program sucks, but at this time they had Hal Mumme and Mike Leach coaching on the same coaching staff. People didn't realize it back then but they had some of the best offensive minds in football history all working together for them at the same time.
Couch just had the unfortunate situation to go to an expansion team with literally nothing. I will never see him as a bust as he did the best he could with no weapons, no line, and just an awful situation for a rookie to come into.
Derek Homer was a stud but for some reason he got in Hal "the Chump" Mumme's dog house his senior year and hardly played at all. Mumme was fired shortly after for NCAA violations but it didn't save Homer's UK career.
This was the original Air Raid, back when it was taboo to run it. You do realize that Hal Mumme and Mike Leach were both coaching at Kentucky at the same time right? Kentucky had arguable the best offensive coaching staff in the country at this time.
Andy Yang at the time Alabama was ranked and Kentucky had horrible, embarrassing seasons under Bill Curry. Hal Mumme, for all his faults, made football at KY exciting again and this game was huge symbolic win for trying to turn the program around.
They weren't 4-7 at the time. They were in the top 20. Sure its easy to analyze now, but then that was a big win for UK, regardless of how Alabama finished.
![[ไฮไลต์] รอบชิงชนะเลิศ "เทนนิส พาณิภัค" ไทย vs จีน Guo Qing เทควันโดหญิง 49kg | โอลิมปิก 2024](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xgvTIdE8j3U/mqdefault.jpg)
Couch was not a bust IMO..Look at his stats as he got progressively better each year until he got hurt..he just had the misfortune of being the first quarterback of a new franchise...
+Weadfreek same could be said for david carr
Agreed
ItsyaboyAFizzle David Carr didn't take the Texans anywhere near the playoffs tho, Couch at least did that
jeoh93 While not with a new team, Joey Harrington spent his entire career with the Lions running for his life.
No he's a bust
My dad took me to this game when i was 7, don't remember much but the crowd being insanely loud and the goal posts demolished. When couch went to the browns when i was 9 i became a browns fan. Little did i know that 12 years later I'd be living in Cleveland. Couch is still an idol here it's pretty cool.
RIP #65. Great player and coach. Big Blue Nation will always remember John Schlarman.
Tim Couch was the most accurate passer I ever watched. Mumme's system inflated his numbers a lot, hence the number one pick, but the guy could put it where he wanted. When he had protection, which he did not at Cleveland.
I was six when this game occured... and we had to go to a pub to watch the game because we didn't have cable and we had moved to Ohio 3 years before... I remember being looked at by people in the pub as if we were from a foriegn country :D
i listened to this game on radio with my Dad. seems like a lifetime ago with all the stuff we got today to watch games. I think thefans have ran on the field 5 times. Bama 97, uga (?), Ul, 06, Lsu 06, and the one time i was there to run on the field UT 2011!!!!!!
Jake Mackie you are correct except your dates are a little off. UGA was in 06, UL and LSU were both in 07. I was lucky enough to be at this Alabama game and the UGA game in 06.
lol they ran on the field against LSU one other time too only to look dumbfounded as hell when they realized that Devery Henderson actually caught that ball and LSU won.
Two links to the expansion Cleveland Browns played in this game.... Tim Couch (Kentucky QB), later the Browns first round draft pick in 1999, and (while not shown) Freddie Kitchens (Alabama QB), now the new head coach of the Browns. Thanks for the upload.
I was at this game. Incredible, electric atmosphere. Didn't rush the field.
I was 7. I remember being at the game with my pa but I don’t remember anything about alabama. Was their defense just dog shit that year?
I still remember the blocked FG for the TD as one of the loudest crowd reactions I ever heard at Commonwealth Stadium.
bama's jerseys have not changed a bit lol
I had not seen this in years. THanks
We couldn’t stop Couch. He got rid of the ball too quick and we were toast. Dubose’s game plan to open the game was ridiculous as well...
My roommate came home with a 6 inch piece of the goal posts. One or more pipes got carried out of the stadium to an afterparty and cut up with acetylene torches into small pieces.
This was on my Eight Birthday on October 4, 1997 I had a birthday party with my Classmates from Avondale Elementary School when i was in second grade when Kentucky beat Alabama, this marks the beginning of the Post-Stallings era
I'm from leslie county, where Couch went to highschool..
Mark stoops has a winning team get used to it folks
The camera man got demolished on the sideline!
The game that put mumme and leach on the map
Thank You Mike Leach! RIP
❤
People laugh at Kentucky, and they should because the football program sucks, but at this time they had Hal Mumme and Mike Leach coaching on the same coaching staff. People didn't realize it back then but they had some of the best offensive minds in football history all working together for them at the same time.
Air Raid is about to lift the Arizona Cardinals under Kliff Kingsbury.
Jackson Flowers program USED to suck. Your comment was posted the year we went 10-3 including a bowl win over Penn State.
Jackson Flowers program USED to suck. Your comment was posted the year we went 10-3 including a bowl win over Penn State.
@@bradbyington6662 When I wrote that comment it was during a 7-6 season...
@@jacksonflowers2498 and back to an 11 win season maybe now 🤷♂️
Was this also the last time Kentucky defeated Alabama?
What happened to Anthony White? That dude was making plays
RIP
My wedding day
Couch just had the unfortunate situation to go to an expansion team with literally nothing. I will never see him as a bust as he did the best he could with no weapons, no line, and just an awful situation for a rookie to come into.
Derek Homer was a stud but for some reason he got in Hal "the Chump" Mumme's dog house his senior year and hardly played at all. Mumme was fired shortly after for NCAA violations but it didn't save Homer's UK career.
ANY throws over 10 yards????? Come on! I could've played quarterback in that system!
doubt it........hal mumme system was pass happy more than spurrier...
This was the original Air Raid, back when it was taboo to run it. You do realize that Hal Mumme and Mike Leach were both coaching at Kentucky at the same time right? Kentucky had arguable the best offensive coaching staff in the country at this time.
I was thinking the same damn thing
4:53 It was a 14 yard TD pass.
There were some good passes where he pushed the ball down field. He had the arm talent
The bad years. Thank God for Nick Satan. I mean Saban!
#BBN
Mike damn Dubose
Couch was the real deal wrong team at wrong time and an injury
Go Wildcats and Tim Couch is still sexy y’all!
I thought manziel played for A&M
He plays for FLORIDA A&M;not Texas A&M
MarsRacingNetwork He played for TEXAS A&M.
MarsRacingNetwork TEXAS A&M
Rob Bromley was so boring.
This game is pointless. They beat a 4-7 team. Didn't mean shit. Tim C. threw 95% short passes and it meant nothing. Whatever.
Andy Yang at the time Alabama was ranked and Kentucky had horrible, embarrassing seasons under Bill Curry. Hal Mumme, for all his faults, made football at KY exciting again and this game was huge symbolic win for trying to turn the program around.
LOL @ UK fans rushing the field and tearing down a goalpost after beating a 4-7 team. Truly a pathetic fanbase and program.
They weren't 4-7 at the time. They were in the top 20. Sure its easy to analyze now, but then that was a big win for UK, regardless of how Alabama finished.
LOL @ fucktard trolls.
Dude this was the only 2nd time Kentucky won vs them give them a little credit
cmon dude..............its what makes college special.......this was their super bowl....