Quote from: Pat Coleman on October 29, 2014, 11:12:35 PM
Catholic was 4-6 in 1992 and was 5-5 the year before that so I can't imagine who would have nationally ranked them.
Catholic came into the 1995 season nationally ranked by SI, I believe.
How bad was Catholic in 1992? They lost to Swarthmore.
So that team went 4-6 and graduated a ton of guys, there were a lot of seniors on that team. I followed the team very closely as the student radio guy (dating me, I know). The next year, with a bunch of unproven guys, I wrote a preview for the student newspaper that said the team was going to struggle. Well, the head coach wasn't very fond of my take and called me and proceeded to rip me a new one for about 20 minutes the day the paper came out.
However, that team went 1-9, only beating Gallaudet, and the team finished the season with 30-some players and the coach was fired. His next call to me was him telling me that he'd been fired. The athletic director was trying to hold the news in because the following day was the last newspaper edition of the fall semester, but I got the story because the coach told me on the record he was canned.
Anyway -- good times, but no way that 1992 team was legitimately ranked. Gotta love the D-III dark ages. Probably Dan & Peggy Shonka's preview or Don Hansen.
Yes...it was '95....we won at Catholic to move to 6-0. They were 4-1 going in I think. But I do recall them being ranked by SI as you stated...now I'm trying to think who we beat in 92 opener...?