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DutchieFlair said:
LMAO found this while googling tremain mack wanted to see what he was up to now

http://www.angelfire.com/wv/elbrado/neverwatch.html
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2. #12 West Virginia vs. #23 Miami-1996-Morgantown, WV

The only time I have ever heard 63,500 people completely silent. Undefeated WVU leads Miami 7-3 with 30 some odd seconds to go. WVU goes back to punt, Miami's Tremain Mack is offsides, blocks the punt, LATERALS to a teammate who runs in for the touchdown. Two infractions, no flags, screwed again, Miami wins. WVU's season goes down the drain. Thanks ref. 10-7 Miami.
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LOL - I guess beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
 
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Following the game, Corch (who was an assistant at the time) was hit by a garbage can causing nerve damage, right?
 
NorthFlaCane said:
DutchieFlair said:
LMAO found this while googling tremain mack wanted to see what he was up to now

http://www.angelfire.com/wv/elbrado/neverwatch.html
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2. #12 West Virginia vs. #23 Miami-1996-Morgantown, WV

The only time I have ever heard 63,500 people completely silent. Undefeated WVU leads Miami 7-3 with 30 some odd seconds to go. WVU goes back to punt, Miami's Tremain Mack is offsides, blocks the punt, LATERALS to a teammate who runs in for the touchdown. Two infractions, no flags, screwed again, Miami wins. WVU's season goes down the drain. Thanks ref. 10-7 Miami.
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LOL - I guess beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
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How is lateraling the ball on a return an infraction? Not being snarky or anything but if he threw it backwards, what's the problem?
 
I don't think there was a penalty on that play, but seeing it through a distraught WVU fan's eyes I could make one up.
 
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6. #13 West Virginia vs. Miami-1998-Morgantown, WVTwo outrageous (and not even close) pass interference calls turned the momentum in Miami's favor. Then with seconds remaining, WVU's David Saunders makes a tightrope catch on the near sideline only to be ruled out of bounds, which pushes the potentially game-tying field goal back to 50+ yards. Jay Taylor's kick is wide left, the ref's do it again. 34-31 Miami
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drifters1234 said:
he was such a talented playmaker. always in the right spot at the right time. was he just not big enough for the NFL?
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He was amazing in the NFL. Even made the Pro Bowl ala Hester. He might still hold the record for avg return yards on kick off in a season. Too bad he was a drunk and they basically kicked him out of the league.
 
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Miami04 said:
drifters1234 said:
he was such a talented playmaker. always in the right spot at the right time. was he just not big enough for the NFL?
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He was amazing in the NFL. Even made the Pro Bowl ala Hester. He might still hold the record for avg return yards on kick off in a season. Too bad he was a drunk and they basically kicked him out of the league.
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Love him at Miami and thought he was one the best Miami safeties ever at the time.
I started wondering what happened to him and I found this obscure Bengals site article.

Bengal Hero: Tremain Mack

Chris Henry, Odell, Frostee Rucker, etc. are not the first character risks the Bengals have taken. The Bengals have been taking huge character risks in the draft for quite some time now. Obviously Mike Brown loves the draft value of a guy who’s slipped a round or four because of their giant red character flags. Tremain Mack was the epitome of this. Mike must have loved him some T-Mack because how else can a quote like this be explained.


Tremain's a very likable guy," said Mike Brown, Bengals owner/general manager. "But to read the media accounts a year ago, you would think he and John Dillinger were cellmates. (What??? John Dillinger??? Who the **** is that??? Ohhhh, a famous bank robber from the Great Depression, what a hip reference for the end of the 20th century. Now if Mike had said T-Mack would have been a great getaway driver then I would have loved it)

Tremain Mack was drafted out of the U by the Bengals in the 4th round of the 1997 NFL draft (Another paragon of morals values Corey Dillon was also taken by the Bengals in this draft). This Hurricane was rated as a first round talent at the time but somehow T-Mack slipped to the 111th pick of the draft. While the rest of the NFL seemingly took him off their draft boards the Bengals apparently saw a talent that just couldn’t be ignored. Now you might be wondering why the rest of the NFL didn’t want to draft T-Mack. After all he was 1st team All Big East and a special teams dynamo at Miami. Well I’m going to go out on a limb and say the answer probably had something to do with T-Mack’s SIX alcoholic related arrests in his 4 years as a Hurricane and that even BUTCH DAVIS suspended him because of a DUI. Now in all fairness to the Bengals they apparently claimed they didn’t know the severity of T-Mack’s problems. I guess the Bengals three scouts not related to the Brown family missed that little nugget.

But just for now I’m going to ignore all the Bengals idiocy and mismanagement because quite simply T-Mack was the best Bengals kick returner of my lifetime. His best season was 1999 when T-Mack led the AFC in kick returning average and set a Bengal club-record averaging 27.1 yards per return. This season was made even more amazing because T-Mack didn’t play in the first four games of the season after shockingly being suspended by Commissioner Tagliabue after another DUI arrest. T-Mack’s off-season conditioning program consisted of spending his summer locked up in the Hamilton County Jail (Jamal Lewis has nothing on T-Mack). So when he came out for the 5th game of the 1999 season he came out blazing. Personally I loved Tremain Mack because on every kick off (and there were lots of kicks to return in 1999 as the Bengals started 1-10 on their way to another 4-12 season while they closed Riverfront Stadium in style) I imagined special teams coach Al Roberts telling him to just pretend like he was running from the law. It must have worked because T-Mack ran so well from the law in 1999 that he was chosen as the AFC’s kick returner in the Pro-Bowl. From county jail to Honolulu all in span of one season. Simply amazing!!!

Sadly as you may have heard T-Mack didn’t have a happy ending with the Bengals. T-Mack could only run from the law for so long. He continued to rack up DUI’s at a record pace including one that would have made Bob Huggins proud when the Cincinnati police arrested Mack after finding him sleeping behind the wheel of a car at 3:45 a.m. Surprisingly the cops got suspicious after Mack's vehicle had been parked in the middle of a Clifton intersection for at least an hour. This Huggins style arrest came two years after WLWT-TV (Channel 5) caught Mack on tape driving to and from Paul Brown Stadium with a suspended license, from the two DUI charges he’d already picked up in Hamilton County. That was great piece of Cheaters style investigative journalism, but the Bengals front office was not pleased with the report referring to the report as a sting operation (more importantly where was channel 5 when we needed them to follow Chris Henry around? you know you would have watched it). After some more jail time T-Mack was done with the NFL but on the Brightside seems to have cleaned up his life eventually suiting up for the Arena Football San Jose SaberCats.

7935660201_tmack_3 But I’ll always remember T-Mack as a bald headed demon who ran like the he heard police sirens blaring behind him. For T-Mack was running from the law and into the hearts of Bengal fans everywhere. Tremain Mack a Bengal Hero.
 
I was at the game. I got hit in the back of the head with a sub sandwich from subway that some jackhole launched at me right after Mack scored. It was really cold and rainy. The sandwich was practically frozen. Buncha rednecks. At the time, it was the only place in college football where you could bring your own beer to the game. People had multiple cases in each hand carrying them in. The result was insane with Ferguson breaking his hip only to be laying in the ambulance with Eer fans trying to tip the ambulance over. Shannon got hit with the trash can. The whole event after Mack scored was just embarrassing. Miami asked for a public apology from WVU and the Big East. Not sure if they ever got it or not but that was the game that basically branded WVU fans as the worst.
 
Mack basically decided when he wanted to block a kick. His MVP performance in the Micron PC Bowl against NC State was the stuff of legends.
 
I was in high school too, and one of my best friends' dad was on the Orange Bowl Committee, and they were at the game, looking at WVU (who was undefeated). He said when WVU lined up to punt, 3-4 of the OB Committee guys were yelling at the punter to run out of the back of the endzone and take a safety.
 
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umhurricano said:
Mack basically decided when he wanted to block a kick. His MVP performance in the Micron PC Bowl against NC State was the stuff of legends.
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Wrong game/year. It was the Carquest against UVA. We beat NC State in the Micron PC 2 years later.
 
I'm pretty sure T-Mack was suspended for the 1996 FSU game (and maybe 1-2 others) because the South Miami police found him asleep (passed out) at the wheel of his car in the middle of an intersection in the middle of the night. Good times!
 
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Wasn't TMack the long snapper for us in the 1994 FSU game when they blocked 2 of our punts, but we still beat them 34-20?
 
Notsince1985 said:
I'm pretty sure T-Mack was suspended for the 1996 FSU game (and maybe 1-2 others) because the South Miami police found him asleep (passed out) at the wheel of his car in the middle of an intersection in the middle of the night. Good times!
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My memory is foggy but I believe it was Coral Gables police, and it was at the intersection of Bird and Red. I think....
 
bomba said:
Notsince1985 said:
I'm pretty sure T-Mack was suspended for the 1996 FSU game (and maybe 1-2 others) because the South Miami police found him asleep (passed out) at the wheel of his car in the middle of an intersection in the middle of the night. Good times!
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My memory is foggy but I believe it was Coral Gables police, and it was at the intersection of Bird and Red. I think....
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Could be. I thought it was on Sunset on the South Miami side of Dixie HWY, but either way, it was bad.
 
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