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I think I've now finally recovered from Friday night. No, I did not go out and party but Friday night's game and the week leading up to it wore me out. I had to back off Griz stuff for a bit but now I'm back.
During a media timeout about halfway through the second half Friday night, I sat down, stared up at the scoreboard and felt like transferring. I wanted to get the hell away from the University of Montana. I'm far too competitive and overly obsessed with sports so I couldn't fathom how I ended up at a school with a basketball and football teams that could lose to Cal State Fullerton and Wofford respectively in the span of one week. Wofford has less students than my high school and for a million dollars I couldn't tell you if Fullerton (if it is in fact a city) is closer to Oregon or Mexico.
On top of this, the Lady Griz lost to Wyoming and my Packers lost to Dallas. The Lady Griz were without Mandy Morales and Wyoming was ranked but it's still a disappointment. Then the Packers lost Favre early and were without Woodson and KGB. Point of this paragraph: the hoops lost was the worse.
This is the year men's basketball is supposed to make its move. At least that was the thought I had going in. This was going to be the year where we only lose two types of games: games against ranked teams and tough conference road games. No more losing to decent mid-major teams most people have never heard of. This was the year we were going to establish ourseves as that mid to upper level mid-major team. Consistently between 15 and 10 in the mid-major rankings. Right now we're not even in the top 25, we're barely in the "also receiving votes" category.
As hopeless as I was Friday night, I still think it can happen. It's going to take better defense and better support but it can and eventually will happen.
During a media timeout about halfway through the second half Friday night, I sat down, stared up at the scoreboard and felt like transferring. I wanted to get the hell away from the University of Montana. I'm far too competitive and overly obsessed with sports so I couldn't fathom how I ended up at a school with a basketball and football teams that could lose to Cal State Fullerton and Wofford respectively in the span of one week. Wofford has less students than my high school and for a million dollars I couldn't tell you if Fullerton (if it is in fact a city) is closer to Oregon or Mexico.
On top of this, the Lady Griz lost to Wyoming and my Packers lost to Dallas. The Lady Griz were without Mandy Morales and Wyoming was ranked but it's still a disappointment. Then the Packers lost Favre early and were without Woodson and KGB. Point of this paragraph: the hoops lost was the worse.
This is the year men's basketball is supposed to make its move. At least that was the thought I had going in. This was going to be the year where we only lose two types of games: games against ranked teams and tough conference road games. No more losing to decent mid-major teams most people have never heard of. This was the year we were going to establish ourseves as that mid to upper level mid-major team. Consistently between 15 and 10 in the mid-major rankings. Right now we're not even in the top 25, we're barely in the "also receiving votes" category.
As hopeless as I was Friday night, I still think it can happen. It's going to take better defense and better support but it can and eventually will happen.
