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Dudes! It was a tough last week, I know, but we have to get over it and remember how great it was. The good times may not last long. This is Mizzou after all.

I concur.

Sure, it's true that you can't spell BCS without BS but it's been an incredible year for Mizzou football.

Mizzou fans are not mentally tough. Cardinal fans are.

dangerous wrote:Mizzou fans are not mentally tough. Cardinal fans are.

Then how do you reconcile that with the fact that the Mizzou fans on this board "feeling lousy about their season" are also Cardinals fans?

lukethedrifter wrote:Dudes! It was a tough last week, I know, but we have to get over it and remember how great it was. The good times may not last long. This is Mizzou after all.

I looked at it like it was Mizzou's one chance to be good in a year when enough top ranked teams lost to give them a chance at a national title. That's why I'm down. Sure it was a "great" year by Mizzou's standards, but a chance at a national title may not come again for a few decades if they can't find a replacement for Daniel after next year.

BenNX74205 wrote:

dangerous wrote:Mizzou fans are not mentally tough. Cardinal fans are.

Then how do you reconcile that with the fact that the Mizzou fans on this board "feeling lousy about their season" are also Cardinals fans?

Cardinal fans take a long view, savor the championships their team has won, and enjoy good seasons knowing only one team will win it all. Some Mizzou fans invested too much personal energy in winning a championship after the team was voted #1, and set themselves up for disappointment. Either that, or the disappointed Mizzou fans are from KC.

JCShutout wrote:

lukethedrifter wrote:Dudes! It was a tough last week, I know, but we have to get over it and remember how great it was. The good times may not last long. This is Mizzou after all.

I looked at it like it was Mizzou's one chance to be good in a year when enough top ranked teams lost to give them a chance at a national title. That's why I'm down. Sure it was a "great" year by Mizzou's standards, but a chance at a national title may not come again for a few decades if they can't find a replacement for Daniel after next year.

There is no reason to think the program will stop getting better, it's not the last chance.

dangerous wrote:

BenNX74205 wrote:Cardinal fans take a long view, savor the championships their team has won, and enjoy good seasons knowing only one team will win it all. Some Mizzou fans invested too much personal energy in winning a championship after the team was voted #1, and set themselves up for disappointment. Either that, or the disappointed Mizzou fans are from KC.

You make a good point here. I know I had hyped myself up for Mizzou even having control of its own destiny to get to a National Championship, let alone ending up with the #1 ranking, even for a week. It was a very great season for Mizzou football, and I think the program will be very good in the near future. But there's one difference that your statement helps me point out why Cardinals fans would take a longer view than Missouri fans...

...savor the championships their team has won...

Mizzou hasn't won any championships, so there's nothing to savor. There's just a whole lot of bitter memories that get associated with Mizzou football. Losing to Oklahoma twice isn't going to be one of them after a couple months. Not getting into a BCS bowl game won't be come next year. Especially when there are moments like:

* Losing to Kansas when ranked number one while Kansas had an ineligible player, then retroactively being granted a perfect season after the finals polls were taken, preventing Missouri from finishing the season ranked number one

* Losing to Colorado on a fifth down

* Losing to Nebraska on a kicked ball

It's much easier to take a long view when a) your team has won a championship at some point, and especially b) your team won a championship very recently.

BenNX74205 wrote:

dangerous wrote:

BenNX74205 wrote:Cardinal fans take a long view, savor the championships their team has won, and enjoy good seasons knowing only one team will win it all. Some Mizzou fans invested too much personal energy in winning a championship after the team was voted #1, and set themselves up for disappointment. Either that, or the disappointed Mizzou fans are from KC.

You make a good point here. I know I had hyped myself up for Mizzou even having control of its own destiny to get to a National Championship, let alone ending up with the #1 ranking, even for a week. It was a very great season for Mizzou football, and I think the program will be very good in the near future. But there's one difference that your statement helps me point out why Cardinals fans would take a longer view than Missouri fans...

...savor the championships their team has won...

Mizzou hasn't won any championships, so there's nothing to savor. There's just a whole lot of bitter memories that get associated with Mizzou football. Losing to Oklahoma twice isn't going to be one of them after a couple months. Not getting into a BCS bowl game won't be come next year. Especially when there are moments like:

* Losing to Kansas when ranked number one while Kansas had an ineligible player, then retroactively being granted a perfect season after the finals polls were taken, preventing Missouri from finishing the season ranked number one

* Losing to Colorado on a fifth down

* Losing to Nebraska on a kicked ball

It's much easier to take a long view when a) your team has won a championship at some point, and especially b) your team won a championship very recently.

Then I guess I'm saying, success mixed with failure leads to tougher fans.

dangerous wrote:Then I guess I'm saying, success mixed with failure leads to tougher fans.

I don't think that's fair. The fact that they're still fans despite a championship, or really, hardly any success says a lot.