Ole Miss game thread

[Barton Fink]

Pitiful effort

[wmr]

I remember when Ole Miss use to be that dipshit program from the stank ass state nobody liked. Now we cant out bid them for football players, football coaches, or basketball coaches.

They have a good Athletic Director.

We do not. 

[razor5396]

It finally dawned on me. We aren't an athletic program any more. We are an entertainment brand made to amuse the masses that don't know any better than "Yay, I get to go Woo Pig Soiee!" All the people that cared about winning are either dead or posting on woopig, and I dont know which is worse.

[red death]

Pitiful effort

I've been watching Razorback basketball since 1981. 

I seriously can't remember a team laying down and not giving a shit like this ever.

Mike's teams were meh but they played hard.  Did Pelphrey's teams call their own timeouts and run the shot clock out down 8 and then not even try to foul with 20 seconds left down 6?

Not even try at all???

[mde114]

The way we just stood around at the end of the game was surreal.

Never seen anything like that.

[Doc Hogaday]

Davis is just a dumbass. Like, KJ-brained. And he's an absolute cone on defense. Looks like he coulda been an extra in the movie Life. His 3s are just one of those retard mistakes.

[hit_that_line]

Yuracheeks needs to go.

[Keyser Soooie]

It finally dawned on me. We aren't an athletic program any more. We are an entertainment brand made to amuse the masses that don't know any better than "Yay, I get to go Woo Pig Soiee!" All the people that cared about winning are either dead or posting on woopig, and I dont know which is worse.

This is true. They've priced out the true Hog fans in BWA and the rich old fuckers that sit in the good seats don't give a shit. Our vaunted home court advantage is gone.

Combine that with the fact that the players don't really give a shit either and this what you get. Outside of Thiero and sometimes Wagner, this team has no fire.

Cal needs to put together a much better team next year. Preferably with more than one true low post player. We'll get abused all season in the paint. It's gonna be a long SEC season.

[red death]

It finally dawned on me. We aren't an athletic program any more. We are an entertainment brand made to amuse the masses that don't know any better than "Yay, I get to go Woo Pig Soiee!" All the people that cared about winning are either dead or posting on woopig, and I dont know which is worse.

Holy shit.  You nailed it.

Everything is a giant scam.  We've all been scammed.

We're all here because we think Frank Broyles is walking through the door. 

When in reality they turned the lights off at the party and we're all still standing around drunk and confused, looking for the hot blonde who left 3 hours ago and stuck surrounded by fatties with herpes.

[mde114]

I blame the slobber hog. You see it on the floor and think everything is going back to the way it was 30 years ago.

Nolan, Day, Mayberry, Corliss and Scotty ain't walking thru that door, dude.

[hit_that_line]

One of the few things in life that was consistently enjoyable and the fucking suits figured out a way to ruin it. RIP college sports.

[RazorB]

It finally dawned on me. We aren't an athletic program any more. We are an entertainment brand made to amuse the masses that don't know any better than "Yay, I get to go Woo Pig Soiee!" All the people that cared about winning are either dead or posting on woopig, and I dont know which is worse.

Been that way for a while. Petrino's success pissed some people off because their jobs got harder than having 7-8 win seasons.

[mde114]

One of the few things in life that was consistently enjoyable and the fucking suits figured out a way to ruin it. RIP college sports.

I don't agree with you often, but you nailed it.

[Corn Pop]

I don't agree with you often, but you nailed it.

Except it wasn't the suits. It was the marxists. "You've got to pay them!" "It's not fair!"

[Zoso]

Been that way for a while. Petrino's success pissed some people off because their jobs got harder than having 7-8 win seasons.

I wondered at the time why so many people (especially the media) had a problem with BMFP. But you nailed it. They fucking loved Nutt. The YOU of A doesn't seem to care about winning...it's about...well fuck I don't even know.

I just don't get it.

[Thin Red Swine]

We need to win this by 8-10 points for me to feel better about the direction of the season.

Like a 84-71 win would do wonders for my mental health.

Welfare check.

[Trigger7672]

It finally dawned on me. We aren't an athletic program any more. We are an entertainment brand made to amuse the masses that don't know any better than "Yay, I get to go Woo Pig Soiee!" All the people that cared about winning are either dead or posting on woopig, and I dont know which is worse.

Nothing will make you realize this more than going to the games and having to endure that retard Jon Williams and listen to people sing along to "Dixieland Delight" while we're getting our asses kicked on the field/court.

This team hasn't improved at all from the first game. I think Wagner might care but he's not a great player, Thiero is a fucking monster and plays his ass off, Boogie is a future NBA player. Everyone else sucks and doesn't seem to give a shit.

[jdcatty]

We were at the game.  The team played with zero energy.  There was no discernible offense.  And we never played with any intensity, even when we were behind with under 4 minutes left.

Really disappointed at the lack of effort.

[The Whyte Boar]

Life is really better without Razorback sports.  Despite loving Arkansas and my wallet being a lot better off, part of me was dissatisfied when my daughter told me she had chosen Fayetteville over TCU.  I wanted to have an excuse for root for another team and I wanted her to break the curse.

[olive_branch_hog]

I think a smaller factor is the AAU effect.

By the time these players get to Div 1 college basketball they have already played literally hundreds of games against fair to good competition. Tonight was just another game for them.

Winning and losing are just part of playing a basketball game in their experience. There's no urgency to play hard, no motivation to take it all that seriously because, well, there will be hundreds more games to play.

It's competition without passion. (And it ain't changing any time soon)