Meltdown-o-meter.... 3/17/2010

[The1BigWillie]

Where would the meltdown rank tomorrow in terms of all time meltdown since the modern message board era began should we be upset tomorrow? 

ALL TIME GREATEST MELTDOWN!

A loss on Saturday should we win tomorrow would be also unleash massive meltdowns IMO.

I will go home for the day and turn my phone off tomorrow if we don't win. I won't watch another game the rest of the tornament.

[OK_Cat]

still doesn't compare to 98. 

[Stevesie60]

still doesn't compare to 98. 

This. I still have nightmares about that loss. However, it makes things like Iowa St. losses, Huggins losses, and KU losses seem like nothing. Thanks Michael Bishop.

[The1BigWillie]

still doesn't compare to 98. 

Quite true.  No message board evidence though. Would have been epic.  I dropped to my knees and wept like a bitch and was basically in a daze for a week.  

[slimz]

still doesn't compare to 98. 

I wouldn't even call 98 a meltdown.  98 was just soul-crushing.  At their essence, meltdowns are cathartic.  They help you deal with a loss by letting you vent on whoever the scapegoat is.

98 was just a nuclear explosion to the balls.  There was nothing left to meltdown with after that happened.

If we lose tomorrow, we'll chalk it up to being K-State, and immediately point to multiple indicators (Iowa State) or reasons (starting Luis) why we lost.  In large part, this would be due to having gone through 98.  

[slimz]

Here's what the 98 equivalent in basketball now would be:

We beat Syracuse (97!) to make the Final Four this year, then lose to Ohio State or Georgetown.  Feels pretty good!

2 of our sophomore guards emerge next year as pretty darn good players.  McGruder becomes a great scoring threat, for instance.  Asprilla comes in and he, Wally, and Curtis dominate down low.

We go through next regular season with 2, maybe 3 losses, MAYBE 1 in conference.  Beat KU twice.  Win the conference tourney, easily.

Get picked as a #1 seed.  Get to the Elite Eight, where we face the #5 seed, Mizzou.  We've destroyed them twice in the regular season.  We get up on them early, leading by 15 at half.  At 12 minutes left in the game, we're still up by 12.  In the final 8 minutes of the game, Jake turns the ball over 4 or 5 times and Mizzou closes down.  We miss a couple of easy layups, and they tie it up and send it to overtime. 

In overtime, we're up by 2 with 2 seconds left.  They inbound the ball and hit a shot from the opposite free throw line as the buzzer sounds. 

[Stevesie60]

We'd have to have some unbelievably stupid play to be equivalent to Bishop's fumble. Like, Jake missing a lay-up that would have won it, or missing four free throws before the end of regulation.

[slimz]

We'd have to have some unbelievably stupid play to be equivalent to Bishop's fumble. Like, Jake missing a lay-up that would have won it, or missing four free throws before the end of regulation.

Just missing FTs isn't "dumb" enough.  I like the lay-up analogy, though.  Jake goes in with a breakaway off an inbounds with 10 seconds left and us up by 2, thinks about dunking it but changes his mind and misses the layup, they grab it and make a basket to tie and sent it to OT.

[Stevesie60]

One of these to lose the game?

[j-dub]

we're already jinxed.

so imo, this thread is either a dejinxer or advance preparation for the nut-busting inevitable...

 

[Stevesie60]

Both are positive things. Nothing to be  about.

[SkinnyBenny]

One of these to lose the game?

Nope.  Pasco fiasco 2.0.

[Censored by Laurie]

Hands down the best thread I've read on here.  Keep up the self-defeating attitude, fellas...it should ease the blow.

[badnewsjimmy]

still doesn't compare to 98. 

Quite true.  No message board evidence though. Would have been epic.  I dropped to my knees and wept like a bitch and was basically in a daze for a week.  

Over 2 years later and I deny this game ever happened. Somewhere out there is the week after that game. The meltdown was horrific.

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=K-State&as_oq=&as_epq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=rec.sport.football.college&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&as_umsgid=&lr=&num=100

I think they archived rec.sport.football.college back to '94

[EllToPay]

Hands down the best thread I've read on here.  Keep up the self-defeating attitude, fellas...it should ease the blow.

If UNT won today, would it be the greatest win in the history of your program?

If so,  

[lmfergu]

I was an athletic trainer on the sidelines for the '98 game.  I saw grown men cry (Snyder/Kelly/Cooper/Simineau/Oaks/Bishop) in that locker room.  I had to drive Gramatica and Kelly to the airport so they could attend the Home Depot All-American show after that game (quiet car ride by the way) and then had to drive the university car the 6 hours back to Manhattan.  I wasn't able to watch any football till the next year and still can't bear to watch a replay of the game.  THIS WOULDN'T EVEN COME CLOSE TO THE '98 MELTDOWN!

[Censored by Laurie]

Hands down the best thread I've read on here.  Keep up the self-defeating attitude, fellas...it should ease the blow.

If UNT won today, would it be the greatest win in the history of your program?

If so,  

Nah...I'd say when we beat Oklahoma State two years ago that was the sign of us turning the corner in building a consistent winner. 

Plus, people take notice when you beat a program with actual history and a tradition of winning.

[EllToPay]

Hands down the best thread I've read on here.  Keep up the self-defeating attitude, fellas...it should ease the blow.

If UNT won today, would it be the greatest win in the history of your program?

If so,  

Nah...I'd say when we beat Oklahoma State two years ago that was the sign of us turning the corner in building a consistent winner. 

Plus, people take notice when you beat a program with actual history and a tradition of winning.

Beating a team coached by a drug addict is your program's greatest win?

 

[Censored by Laurie]

Hands down the best thread I've read on here.  Keep up the self-defeating attitude, fellas...it should ease the blow.

If UNT won today, would it be the greatest win in the history of your program?

If so,  

Nah...I'd say when we beat Oklahoma State two years ago that was the sign of us turning the corner in building a consistent winner. 

Plus, people take notice when you beat a program with actual history and a tradition of winning.

Beating a team coached by a drug addict is your program's greatest win?

 

He was just a drunk, wasn't he?  Maybe scripts...but he was no Texas Rangers manager.

Also, is your board name also the last line uttered threateningly in a Tempe hotel room?  "Tell anyone about this and there's gonna be Ell to pay."

[EllToPay]

Hands down the best thread I've read on here.  Keep up the self-defeating attitude, fellas...it should ease the blow.

If UNT won today, would it be the greatest win in the history of your program?

If so,  

Nah...I'd say when we beat Oklahoma State two years ago that was the sign of us turning the corner in building a consistent winner. 

Plus, people take notice when you beat a program with actual history and a tradition of winning.

Beating a team coached by a drug addict is your program's greatest win?

 

He was just a drunk, wasn't he?  Maybe scripts...but he was no Texas Rangers manager.

Also, is your board name also the last line uttered threateningly in a Tempe hotel room?  "Tell anyone about this and there's gonna be Ell to pay."

Talk about LSSIQ..

[MEANGREENMAN!]

I hear the UNT strategy is to say "Kansas" to the KSU bench before tip off causing a massive amount of pant wetting and thumb sucking.