NSR: Basketball 2.0

As much as I enjoy the Appalachian State game, it was opening day and had no significance on the outcome of the season. It also wasn't a national spectacle - it was more shocking than anything else, but not in it of itself a great story. Flutie's hail mary was also in a fairly meaningless bowl game. That's why it's so hard to top Clark's catch from Montana, or Valvano running around like crazy, Laettner's shot against Kentucky, and of course the Miracle on Ice. You need the game to mean something.

 

But at the end of the day it was one of the most memorable plays in college football history, to this day it is still relevant.

 

Yes Miracle on Ice Quality. You are a moron. Wow.

Ironically Wikipedia says the spread was 27 points. It says the USC Stanford game was 41 points, the biggest in history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Appalachian_State_vs._Michigan_football_game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Stanford_vs._Southern_California_football_game

The Appalachia state was arguably not even the biggest upset in college football that season. Appalachian state won the I-AA national championship. LOL.

You do know in 2007 Stanford was playing USC which had won 35 straight home games. Stanford was 1-11 the previous season, 1-3 on the year, without their starting QB.

I don't even know why I bother replying to you, you're a joke.

 

Oh, so every athlete who goes on despite an injury is a "huge story". Surely, Willis Reed coming back with a torn up leg muscle to play the seventh game of the 1970 NBA finals is a far bigger story.

You wanted a big story, right?

 

Actually, Michigan's season was pretty much done after that. The pre-season #1 team finished with something like a 3-9 record.

 

They weren't the preseason #1, they were in the top 5. It was a shock, yes, but it'll be mostly forgotten in 10 years the same way that the Kordell Stewart - Westbrook hail mary has been mostly forgotten.

That's always your reasoning - oh yeah, like 3 guys in the media agree with me, I must be right!!111!!!! If they said anything like that (which I've seen no proof of), they're wrong too. Just like your claims that Reggie Miller is clearly better than Ray Allen since he's a guaranteed first ballot Hall of Famer. Oh wait, no, not because of that, because SLAM magazine said so. Because if there's anyone we should trust, it's SLAM magazine.

Eloquent as always! Because if someone disagrees with footy, that must mean they're gay. You've certainly convinced me
By the way, I guess this means Indiana basketball still means choking, unless you can find an Ohio State alum to coach them.

 

Brain fart - I was referring to NCState over Houston, not Nova over Georgetown. Both were much bigger wins. Butler's run was nice, but compared to beating a team with Hakeem and Clyde (!!!) or Nova's takedown of Ewing two years alter, this isn't close. Who's the best player Butler faced all season - Kemba Walker? As impressed as I am that they've managed to lose the national title game by only 15 points against a player destined to be Bobby Jackson mark 3712, meh. Nice run, good effort, nothing more to see here.

 

Why do I have a huge character flaw for preferring Butler lost? (Disagreeing with you isn't a character flaw. Nor, incidentally, is being gay.) The only reason I was happy Butler lost is because you're such an unbelievable douchebag about them and Indiana basketball in general. That's the same reason I make fun of the T-Wolves; I don't actually care about them, it's just a reaction to Zenit's hagiography of David Kahn. If you hadn't been such a massive toolshed about Butler, I might well have been cheering them on.
So, to sum up, I don't dislike Butler. I dislike your stupidity. Hope that clears it up.

Oh my God, that is so clever! I never thought of replacing an S with a $ sign. Wow! But that totally makes sense, after all, Thad Matta is famous for recruiting and other violations. Wait, what? He's not? Oh, that's right. But hey - congratulations on winning.....wait, what did Butler win this year again?

 

I know this is an adult board, but I don't think we should be putting up images of someone giving Butler a massively sloppy blow job. It's just gross.
Incidentally, the only disgusting thing last night was Butler's shooting. That was appalling. I'm shocked there are any windows left near the arena after all the bricks they threw up.

 

I don't like NCAA ball because for all the hype and people promoting it, I don't see anything appealing about it other than having a tie to a school. Understandable, but good lord this game was the best reason why NCAA ball isn't all that. So many missed shots by Butler that even Darko Milic thought that Butler sucked.

This wasn't falling flat, this was just a perfect example of garbage.

 

I only think about you when I see Butler. Which is..once a year or so. So yeah, I guess I think of you once a year. It's not one of the greatest underdog stories, either. There have been tons better, especially ones that won. Butler had a nice run. They lost to a better team after playing a horrific game. That's all there is to it. As for what you do with your spare time - doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Incidentally, apparently all the Indiana schools are "your boys" - must be pretty easy finding a school that does well, even if it is Indiana. I'll stick with cheering for the two schools I actually went to - and without making outlandish claims about them. Because I'm sane, and stuff.

 

When Michigan lost to App St they had a decent season and finished 9-4 not 3-9. They beat Florida (top 10 team) in the Cap 1 bowl that year. They were ranked 5 pre season not #1.

 

Check out what wikipedia wrote about the Michigan - App State game:

"In what was hailed as one of the biggest upsets in the history of American sports, the Mountaineers shocked the fifth-ranked Wolverines 34–32. It was the first win ever by a team in Division I FCS (I-AA) over a "ranked" team in Division I FBS (I-A) since the NCAA split its Division I into two football subdivisions in 1978. The game has been referred to by one sports writer as the Miracle in Michigan"

This was huge.

 

Yes, they went 3-9 the following season. I stand corrected.

 

Thank God someone has some facts.

 

Look, little makes me happier than Michigan being embarrassed in almost any way, but you're starting to sound like footy (and yes, that's a grave insult). At the time, of course it was a huge upset, and people being shortsighted, that's how they wrote about it. And the fact that one person refers to it as the "Miracle in Michigan" - miracle for who? It was ultimately a meaningless game that was a big upset. A few years later, it's still a big underdog victory, but nothing comparable to the Lake Placid game or NcState/Nova in the Final 4.

 

You are an idiot. A ********ing moron. A complete skull ******** that needs to be hit harder. No September college football game between an eventual Capital One Bowl v. I-AA team matters as much as a game between a Cold War United States v. Soviet Union in an Olympic Sport between Amateurs and Professionals.

 

What's a skull *******?

 

Well I originally said you're a skull f--ing moron. Who needs to be skull f' --ed harder.

But it censored more than I thought it would. Looking back on it, saying sk f'd less would have more made sense.