re: Auburn vs. UF rivalry

BTW, in regards to the 1984 FSU game, here is a bit from Dye's article where he/AU got hit for the 45 yards in penalties...

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On their scoring play they pitched the ball to the tailback, who handed it to flanker coming around on the reverse. Their quarterback ran out to the backside and when the reverse came around he clipped our defensive end, John Dailey, hitting him right in the back to prevent him from making a play.

On the sidelines I was immediately hollering “he clipped” and the side judge said, “I saw it.” I told him to “throw his flag” and he said “it wasn’t my call.” He said it was the referee’s call. I?told him, “You saw it and you know it was a clip. You have got to throw your flag.” By that time the Seminoles were lining up to kick the extra point and they were ahead in the ball game.

They kicked off to us and we moved right back down the field into scoring position. We had the ball first and 10 at their 12-yard line. Our quarterback, Pat Washington, ran the bootleg with a run or throw option. The receivers were covered so he pulls the ball down and runs in for a touchdown. On that play our guard, Randy Stokes, pulls out and is leading Pat on the bootleg and he hits their strong safety right in the chest, blocking him out of bounds. The same official who couldn’t call the clip on the other end of the field throws his flag this time and calls a clip on us.

I yelled at the official and said, “No way he clipped him. He hit him in the chest,” but it didn’t help. They called the touchdown back. By that time I am out on the field discussing the situation with the officials and they told me I had got to get back to the sideline.

I told them, “I am not going anywhere until you explain to me how you can call a clip on one end of the field and not call one on the other end of the field.” Of course, they are marking off 15 yards for the clip and then he throws another flag and marks off 15 more yards on me for a personal foul.

As they are marking off the 30 yards we are still discussing it over there by the hash mark and I said, “I want to see the guy with the white hat (referee).” He comes over and we discuss it and he throws his flag, too, and they mark off 15 more.

The scoreboard down there at Doak-Campbell Stadium had pyrotechnics when the crowd got loud and it lit up the place like the 4th of July with the fans going crazy.

After I got my second personal foul call, our big noseguard, Ben Thomas, came out on the field and picked me up. He said, “Coach, you have to get off the field or they are going to throw you out of here.” So he carried me back over to the sidelines and set me down.

I don’t know what the Auburn fans were thinking at that time, but I remember thinking “how are we going to win this game.”

As I looked at all of those fireworks, I noticed the down and distance on the scoreboard and it showed it was first down and 55 yards to go. I looked over at Jack Crowe, who was calling plays with Larry Blakeney, and I said, “Jack, have you got a good first and 55 call.” He looked at me like I was crazy.
Not surprisingly, we didn’t score on that possession.

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