I think Vinnie actually played that year and only Bernie got the shirt. I think Vinnie got a shirt the next year. Good to know that Mark owes noles for that one, and ND.
Yes. Richt was suspended for next game at MD and Kyle Vandewende started. Vinnie was backup and came in for a series. We lost close one as I remember in College Park to Boomer Esiason and Terps.
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No, nothing that serious. Some kind of "dorm incident" as I remember, and it was never made public what it was. I think it was probably pretty minor, compared to the stuff we're seeing now. Richt was reinstated after the Maryland game but I think Schnelly had Vandewende starting for the rest of the season. We did not have a bowl game that year.
A rather disappointing year. Kelly went down with the shoulder dislocation in the first or second game of the year. It was in Blacksburg. He was a darkhorse candidate for the Heisman. There were better known QBs around the country that year, like Dan Marino and Elway. We had come off a very good year in '81 and were playing some of the best football in the country that year. Looking back on those teams, very few guys from the early '80's could play now. Look at those lumbering RBs, like Speedy Neal, a HS A-A. Mark Rush was OK, known for being able to leap the LOS on goal line situations. The best RB was probably Albert Bentley, as he began to prove in '83 and after he went to the USFL where he rushed for 1000 yards. He was a walkon who came to practice on his bicycle (no fancy exotic cars back then) and they tried to send him away. He persisted and became a very good back. The kids were tough, played hard, but nowhere near the size and athletic ability of kids now. Not that we should expect them to have been.
Notice that the defense would not have satisfied current fans. It was the old Okie 5-2, a passive reading defense. It was changed two years later when Jimmy Johnson arrived on the scene.