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Buffalo coach returns to scene of Nebraska win over Tigers
Friday, September 22, 2006
CHARLES GOLDBERG
News staff writer
They had Lombardi Award winner Dave Rimington, a future Heisman Trophy winner in Mike Rozier and they were loaded.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers rolled into Auburn 24 years ago and smacked around a pretty good football team 41-7 thanks to the play of Rimington, Rozier, a huge offensive line, 500 total yards and one of the most familiar quarterbacks in college football in the 1980s.
Alas, name-recognition probably won't mean much for Turner Gill on his return to Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday
Gill is the first-year coach at the University of Buffalo and he has the daunting assignment of playing the No. 2 team in the nation with a team that had won just five games in the previous four years.
"Good things are happening at the University of Buffalo," says the positive-sounding Gill.
Gill, indeed, won his first game a few weeks back.
But there are no false allusions for Gill this Saturday. He knows the Bulls, a six-touchdown underdog, don't match up with Auburn. He knows his return visit won't be like Nebraska's game here in 1982, or even like Nebraska's win over Auburn the year before in Lincoln. But he still sees Saturday as an opportunity to tell the nation about Buffalo.
His explanation has to start at square one.
"We are Division I," Gill says "A lot of people don't know if we're Division I or I-AA, but we've been Division I since 2000."
Buffalo is a Division I-A school like Auburn. That's where most similarities end. Auburn has a long football tradition. Buffalo is trying to make a name for itself in a city that has the NFL's Bills, a big waterfall and a bridge to Canada.
Buffalo coach returns to scene of Nebraska win over Tigers
Friday, September 22, 2006
CHARLES GOLDBERG
News staff writer
They had Lombardi Award winner Dave Rimington, a future Heisman Trophy winner in Mike Rozier and they were loaded.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers rolled into Auburn 24 years ago and smacked around a pretty good football team 41-7 thanks to the play of Rimington, Rozier, a huge offensive line, 500 total yards and one of the most familiar quarterbacks in college football in the 1980s.
Alas, name-recognition probably won't mean much for Turner Gill on his return to Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday
Gill is the first-year coach at the University of Buffalo and he has the daunting assignment of playing the No. 2 team in the nation with a team that had won just five games in the previous four years.
"Good things are happening at the University of Buffalo," says the positive-sounding Gill.
Gill, indeed, won his first game a few weeks back.
But there are no false allusions for Gill this Saturday. He knows the Bulls, a six-touchdown underdog, don't match up with Auburn. He knows his return visit won't be like Nebraska's game here in 1982, or even like Nebraska's win over Auburn the year before in Lincoln. But he still sees Saturday as an opportunity to tell the nation about Buffalo.
His explanation has to start at square one.
"We are Division I," Gill says "A lot of people don't know if we're Division I or I-AA, but we've been Division I since 2000."
Buffalo is a Division I-A school like Auburn. That's where most similarities end. Auburn has a long football tradition. Buffalo is trying to make a name for itself in a city that has the NFL's Bills, a big waterfall and a bridge to Canada.
