The liberating moment when the bottom falls out

Q, West Coast Style · Post by **Q, West Coast Style** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:31 am

Gotta say it happened to me tonight (Re: Wazzu getting blow out by 2nd worst team in conference). I guess on a different scale it happened to some others in here. It's kinda of a refreshing, liberating feeling when that moment occurs when it hits you "Wow we suck. Period." Until then each weekend you try and convince yourself that if we do x better next week or beat y and z the season will be saved . . . then that moment comes and it's like WOOSH all hope gone but also with it all expectations too. No more worry. . . And in my case just maybe a little exitement over who'll we'll hire as the next coach.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:39 pm

Being at the stadium, I couldn't hear any of the updates. Afterwards, I at least had a little solace when I saw ESPN, and said to myself "Dang... everybody lost today."

M Club · Post by **M Club** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:40 pm

well, what if yr a michigan fan and yr bottom fell out right away, only since then you've bailed enough water against enough shite teams that you've convinced yrself the team's a frontrunner for the conference championship? wait till that bottom drops.

M Club · Post by **M Club** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:41 pm

Dinsdale wrote:Being at the stadium, I couldn't hear any of the updates. Afterwards, I at least had a little solace when I saw ESPN, and said to myself "Dang... everybody lost today."

i was a bit concerned about umich's performance against n'western, but then everyone else began losing and i thought perhaps it fortunate we escaped. then i remembered we're not even in the top 25, so it wouldn't have even counted as an upset otherwise.

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:44 pm

I'm thinking Doba is done at Wazzu. Him or Mike Stoops was going to put a foot in the grave last-night. My inkling was that it would be Mike that produces with his back to the wall, it was. We'll see if Mike can keep that foot out of the grave, it is weird that now that he has found an O with the Leach-offense his normally solid D has become soft. Wazzu will be lucky to make 6-6 again, my guess is 5-7, possibly 4-8.

I was surprised Mich didn't thump NW more soundly since Tyrell Sutton is still out. But they got the W. Ya Fitzpatrick is only in his second year at NW but I think he could already be in trouble. Standards aren't high there but they are above being 4-8 while playing a joke of a noncon sched. He'll probably get one more year though.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:03 pm

i remember when basketball season kinda started the week after the OU-UT game...

sin,

OU fan, 1995-1998

Terry in Crapchester · Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:24 pm

I gotta disagree with Q about the bottom dropping out being a liberating moment.

Since I enrolled in ND as a freshman in 1982, I've seen many, many more down times than up. But I've never seen it anywhere near this bad. And I've never been gripping more.

ND has never started 0-5 at any time in history, ever. In fact, ND is now just one loss away from tying the longest losing streak in school history. And ND has won at least 5 games in every season since 1964 (doesn't sound like much, but Nebraska is the only other 1-A school that can make that claim), a streak which is now very much in jeopardy.

The last two weeks have shown some improvement, but nowhere near where we should be, even conceding that this is, by Notre Dame's standards, a down year talent-wise. At ND, we don't do moral victories.

This just plain sucks. Period, end of story.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:45 pm

Terry,

Try to take some solace in the fact that your team’s performance this year has brought joy to countless college football fans.

Degenerate · Post by **Degenerate** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:51 pm

Terry in Crapchester wrote: But I've never seen it anywhere near this bad. And I've never been gripping more.

At least you won't get your asses handed to you in a bowl game this year.

See, things are looking up already.

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:17 pm

Hard to say what Mich will do. ND sucks, NW sucks, and PSU has turned-out to be average. So while they have picked it up and won games none of the wins are noteworty. They will struggle to get to the tOSU game without another loss or two. The tOSU game will be even bigger than norm for Mich with Carr's job likely on the line.

I'd say ND is looking at a 3-9 season, they are improving but I doubt they get W before they hit the easier part of the sched and those can't be considered gimmies anymore.

Terry in Crapchester · Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:38 pm

Degenerate wrote:
Terry in Crapchester wrote: But I've never seen it anywhere near this bad. And I've never been gripping more.
At least you won't get your asses handed to you in a bowl game this year.

I don't really care about that, unless it's for the national championship. ND never did bowl games before 1970, anyway, and it's only the fact that the reality of college football has changed that accounts for our change.

Unless it's for the national championship, a bowl game is nothing more than a glorified consolation game/reward for senior class.