Never take title game appearances for granted
#snowflakethread #feelingsball
Marching band sucks......so do you.
Cool ad hominem.
For those of us who are pissed off about a team basically not showing up for a championship game, maybe this isn't about feeling good about ourselves. Been with this program my entire life. I'm sick of watching also-rans, no matter how good the team on the other end might be. Just want to win one of these freaking things once. Sorry if I'm not all "let's hug it out and feel good about a second-place banner."
do know we already did win one of these freaking things. This team gave everything they had and got the most of the talent they were working with. What you really looked at this team and thought it was good enough for that run? We were the 5th seed in the B1G tourney, 2013 was a year to expect a win, not this year and not against this Nova team.
Me too. But sorry if I'm a little angrier than most, apparently.
Well, dumber than most
Dude, you spelled "whiny bitch" wrong.
Do you wear your band uniform while you're watching the game?
Good, I'm glad you feel bad then. You should, with a ridiculous perspective like that.
Also ran? Get over yourself.
Didn't show up? What the fuck? There is only 1 winner and while it pains me to say it, Nova was the better team last night despite our best efforts. Divencenzo was hittting contested 3's from 30 feet, sometimes it is just one of those days. These guys played their heart out and gave it their everything and played a damn good game, it just wasn't enough yesterday. We may not have won it all, but this season was a huge success and I'm very happy for all the players. Not that a guy in the band would know anything about that though. You sound like a whiny little bitch.
Truth hurts don't it?
Peasant.
No one thought this team would get this far. But no one thought they'd go 3/23 from behind the arc when the chips were down, either. Again, if being disappointed is wrong, I don't know what's right. Nova is a great team. But Michigan should have been much better than a 19-point rout where even the most open shots couldn't fall.
They shot well below their seasonal 3pt average this tourney run. For the season they shot 35.7% from the arc. This tournament they shot 28.67% from the arc. If you remove the TAMU game it drops to 22.69%. That's not going to get it done for a team that lives by the three ball.
Had they shot their seasonal averages against Nova that would have translated into 79 points on the attempts they took. They would have been in the game.
This team played as well as they could play it just wasn't enough to get by a team like Nova. Sometimes your best just isn't enough.
However, I am optimistic about the future of this program.
I watched you march several years ago and was biiterly disappointed with the effort you gave blowing your clarinet. I was in the first row and could barely hear yo ass.
I guess you can't count either. It was only 17 points.
As fun as this run was, if you're not bitterly disappointed after the way this team played tonight, even with a great team on the other side of the floor, I don't know what to tell you.
They gave us a helluva run. Of course, I'm disappointed, but I'm also supportive and don't go throwing around "also ran" at a team that worked damn hard to improve from unranked team in early Feb to a team playing in the title game.
No, I don't think they played their best tonight, but damn they gave us their all and a great season, and for that I'm grateful.
Well, sorry if I was initially pissed off and it came off wrong. Of course they didn't miss on purpose. But 3/23 is egregiously bad when this is the game. And sorry if the weight of a national championship, after nearly 30 years of waiting for another one and having it slip away, got the best of me. Of course they gave their all, but tonight, well, it didn't work. If we can't admit that and still love this team, well, OK.
Being "bitterly disappointed" is one thing. Whining like a three-year-old is quite another.
... which we almost did, save for the Poole Party miracle.
Instead, we got some well-earned luck through persistence and the god of buzzer-beaters and get to hang a banner for the second time in six years. Something none of our conference rivals has gotten to do.
Sports are a distraction from real-world stresses and disappointments, and we've had a highly entertaining, and mostly cathartic, distraction from the B-ball team for the last couple months.
So, I guess what I'm saying is you don't need to "tell" me anything. But maybe you need to tell yourself something different about losses, something that makes you take it less personally to heart.
You'll be happier.
This year, not so much. More joyful appreciation for what I just watched, a team that overacheived and became brothers, that loved one another and their coach, and apparently represent their School much better than you seem to be able to do. So proud of them and my thanks for the last 2 months, warm winter nights smiling at the TV and coming to work here in Indiana and just being able to laugh at Purdue, Indiana and ND fans. Oh man it was great. That's what I know Bando. And what you don't seem to get.
You make a lifetime of memories, you need to remember all of the little ones. A big disappointment doesn't cancel out the whole year. Man I am so much better off than you.
Later dude.
Idk what it is, but Michigan has got to break through eventually no? Hockey still has a chance.
Jay Wright and Nova were always eternal chokers in March Madness until 2016 and a buzzer beater against UNC.
Michigan will be a lot better next year especially on offense.
John Beilein will be back in the title game sooner than later especially if we don't go through another post-championship swoon like we did after 2013.
OSU and MSU are not going to be that good next year. Look up.
I've been a fan since '06, so I just don't think we get nice things. Pretty sure we'll lose in OT on Thursday or Saturday because I guess that's how the universe works for Michigan.
I'm just hoping I'll see one of the Big 3 break through one day
who also became a diehard in 2006, I agree. I've never seen us win, but the basketball program has made me so incredibly proud in a way the football program never has. And that's not to bag on the football program, but being under dogs and over acheiving has really been a cool feeling.
Meant 2014*
With my handy mute button I can enjoy any title appearance for Michigan.