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The OP is focusing on all our tough losses over the years; it would be interesting if someone went through all the great wins we've had in detail as well. I really only became a superfan starting in 06', but the great wins that stood out to me are:
2006: Clemson
2007: ECU (win was ugly, but huge moral victory), Clemson, FSU, Miami, UVA, BC (the second time...)
2008: GT, UNC, Nebraska, MD, BC (the second time...), Cinci
2009: Nebraska, Miami, UVA (every win over UVA is a great win!), Tennessee
2010: N.C. State, FSU
2011: Miami, UVA (38-0, bro), Michigan (we won that game, dammit)
2012: None
2013: Miami
Though I definitely agree we've lost WAY too many BIG games we should have won. The glaring ones to me are: Kansas, Georgia, Michigan, Boise
They built me up just to knock me down. Today was like losing twice. I hate my team. But I just keep coming back...
I do the same thing with the Hokies. Andrew Ford is likely to be the worst Quarterback ever.
The loss to USC-Upstate may not have been as bad as originally thought. They just lost to Tennessee yesterday in Knoxville by 9 and led a good part of the game. UT is picked 3rd in the SEC behind Kenoneanddonetucky and Florida.
Oh, believe me, it hasn't been easy, but it's nice having some people who know what they are talking about, coming from West Virginia where about everybody is delusional when it comes to football.
I just want to say that I have posted multiple times to this thread. NoahDyeNotDie, you are a really great guy to talk about football with. You are very level headed and calm. We haven't always agreed in this thread, and I appreciate that any cursing there was was mostly just cursing for the sake of cursing, not really directed at the other party. It's interactions like these that keep me coming back (unless we just lost to BC and everyone has just lost their shit out of sadness).
Rule #1 of being a Skins fan that I live by: Forever keep expectations low. You can only be right or pleasantly surprised.
In reading something like this I feel like you don't understand the changes this program is going through right now. Grimes, Moorehead, and Loeffler don't have a single person that they have recruited out on the field. At the start of this season the players on the field didn't know a single Grimes/Moorehead/Loeffler play. At the start of this season, Moorehead didn't know a single Grimes/Loeffler play.
They're all out there making shit sandwiches. The fact that we have a winning record is pretty exciting in light of all that. I honestly expected us to do more poorly than we did last year. You're calling for all of these changes to the program when the program is changing.
Going to Atlanta in December to watch the Skins and Falcons. When we bought the tickets before the season we thought it would be the game of the year between two division leaders. Now it may be two basement dwellers. If I had waited we probably could get some real cheap seats instead of paying high dollar for the seats.
FSU and Clemson used to lose to those teams. We made a ton of changes, if you can't wait for those changes to take affect, then I feel sorry for you.
Yes, the ACCCGs were fun, but will we even have that in the future? Not when you lose to teams like Boston College and Maryland (I consider Duke a very solid team by now). Do FSU and Clemson lose to those teams? Did we lose to those kind of teams back when we won those championships (2008 aside)?
Not sure we can criticize Loeffler here. Loeffler got cute with play calling in the second half. We can ask what is he doing calling a 30 yard fade pattern on third and one? Passing in short yardage situations? I think Loeffler gave up on the offensive line. He gave up on their ability to run downhill. He tried, they go nowhere. Pass protection was also spotty. So he started looking for quick strikes and was passing in short yardage situations. Loeffler is saying with his play calling: the Maryland defensive line is kicking our butt, so I need to try to win this game with finesse. Nice try, but it did not work.
Sir, if you do not consider winning the championship game of a major conference a quality win, I suspect you'll not be satisfied unless you acquire an Alabama situation come along, with numerous NCG wins.
I feel sorry for you. It's not likely to happen to any team you decide to support in your lifetime.
3 things can happen if you argue with someone on the internet:
You can make them look like an idiot.
You can look like an idiot.
You can waste valuable pr0n viewing time.
Only one of those is marginally good.
Hoping for a replay review to actually go one of my teams' way this weekend. Redskins and Hokies and the replay booth don't get along too well.
Woah, Redskins storming back.
As a Hokie in Louisiana, I'm gonna need some pics of that...
Cry.
Oh gosh, basketball season. I'll have to have all my patience gathered for that. I think we'll see a lot of maturation and improvement from the bball team this and upcoming seasons, but they will not be easy to watch by any means.
LOL so true.
NFL teams play 4 quarters? The Redskins' games usually look over by mid-third quarter.
But in all seriousness, I feel you on that.
Watching offensive play of the Redskins is as painful as watching the Hokies this year. Neither team can get over the hump. Looking forward to watching basketball and seeing the young Hokies grow up on the court.
Yeah I feel you there in short yardage. We've got Young and Morris who have proved they can grind out yardage when needed. I guess that comes back to poor line play. I cringe every time Polumbus misses a goddamn block and Griffin gets drilled.
I can't say I disagreed though. We need to face it: our team is mediocre this year. Maryland outplayed us, and as a result we tried to make it up, and then they outplayed us some more.
I spent half an hour looking for Homer Simpson saying something to Bart that I thought was suitable to this situation. I fell short.