Attempting to remove my maroon glasses

[dawgatUSM]

I'm just getting around to watching the OM game. I could never imagine the pain of watching my team lose like that. Which is precisely why I haven't talked any smack whatsoever to my OM friends. That was just excruciating.

That said, if we ever are so unfortunate, I hope our coach, whoever it may be, doesn't cry and whine like freeze did about a horse collar (it wasn't even close) during and after the game. It made him look like more of a baby than I've already thought he was.

 

[57stratdawg]

I've seen Auburn fans bitching about Wallace and Freeze saying things like "I mean, we beat them" and "we were the better team".

 

[Crazy Cotton]

our off weeks were perfect this year. OM looked worn out in that game

If I'm reading their schedule correctly, they went from the Memphis game to the Auburn game without a break, and that stretch included bama, aTm TN and LSU. Some of those teams aren't great, but that's still SEC teams every week for 5 weeks straight. That defense just didn't have the same energy I saw in earlier games - not that LSU and Auburn didn't have something to do with that.

We're in the middle of our long stretch, but we have that Vandy game sitting nicely between Bama and Ole Miss.

 

[coach66]

It was rough, the only thing that compares are the wind blown field goal, Dick

Pace interference call and those did not involve injury. I may be wrong but the way the Auburn guy was able to stop Quan was by slipping his fingers into the back of his pants which is the only way he was able to achieve the leverage necessary to stop him. I don't think that is a horse collar.

They have been very upset and it has lingered but I don't know if I can blame them too much, just a tough way to lose.

 

[wcvetau]

they lost the game and their best player for the season on one play. That is a lot to take and I have said nothing about their whining for that reason. I am also glad we played them after LSU beat them up. Injuries are tough on everybody and that is just part of SEC play.

 

[dawgstudent]

That loss would have made me sick but if there is one team that I am happy it occurred to - it's Ole Miss minus the Treadwell injury.

 

[AHSDawg]

Our schedule this year could not have worked out more perfectly. We have the huge emotional win @LSU. Then we get an off week to get back on task and prep for 2 big games. We win both. Then we get another off week to enjoy the wins but to get focused again for the stretch run. 3 not so tough games to get used to life at the top. UT Martin as a breather to get ready for Alabama while they have to go to Death Valley at night. Then Vandy as a semi off week while TSUN has to go to an Ark team that is aching for a win. Really could not have worked better for us.

 

[o_1984Dawg]

Our whole schedule was perfect, really. UM's was a mixture but mostly bad. Playing Boise this season was convenient and timing helped them against Bama (as it helped us against LSU). Getting LSU and Auburn at the end of that 5-week stretch... that's rough, especially when both had their backs against the wall. Honestly they deserve a lot of credit for being in both of those at the end. The worst thing on their schedule though might be Arkansas. That is a game they needed to have at home and in the middle of the year like we did. They probably win 80% of the time in that case even with their matchup problems, but I think they'll be lucky to win in Fayetteville. Losing that would be crushing... and it's hard to see them beating us in our Super Bowl if they do.

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

The way the momentum was sucked out of Vaught Hemingway

reminded me of 2010 Arkansas. Ballard was diving for the TD in overtime and the ball popped out right before he crossed the goal line. Granted, we didn't lose Ballard for the season, but it was a play that involved some incredible effort on his behalf only to be removed in an instant.
//(Starts around the 8:10 mark). DS I'm struggling with getting the video to begin at the specific time using the video tags. The URL is as follows: http://youtu.be/068vN0lWgcg?t=8m11s

 

[FlotownDawg]

We almost had a loss this year that would've been much much worse

We were a hail mary completion away from losing to LSU in a game we completely dominated for 56 minutes before we stopped playing. If that hail mary is completed for a touchdown, that might've been the worst loss suffered by any team ever.

Edit to add:I also don't understand why people are going on and on about this being the worst loss ever suffered by any team ever. Even Bjork said in his ridiculous video that most teams will never have to go through what they did Saturday night. Give me a break. I do feel sorry for Treadwell and hate he got hurt, but it's not like Ole Miss is the first team to ever lose a game being stopped on the goal line or turning it over inside the 5. Hell, even if they score a TD there, Auburn would've had 1:30 to drive the field and score, which with their offense is plenty of time. We lost to LSU at the goal line in 2009 when Tyson Lee thought he was Tim Tebow instead of pitching to a wide open Dixon, and then lost to Auburn at the goal line in 2011 when Relf couldn't fall forward an inch after being hit. Now neither of these plays involved injuries, but it's not like Treadwell died. He'll be back in the spring.

 

[cofreb]

Just to give some insight

the odds of losing 2 fumbles inside the opponent's 5 in the last 6 minutes of a tight game with national title implications and losing your all american receiver on one of those are vanishingly small. Here's more from the always-great Bill Connolly in that regard (full article, which is interesting as always):

[h=3]0.0004%[/h]There have been 15,723 possessions in 594 FBS games this season. Only 62 drives (0.4 percent) have ended via fumble at or inside the opponent's 6. The chance of two of these instances happening in back-to-back possessions is around 0.002 percent, or one in about 62,500. Have this happen in the fourth quarter of a close, important game, and you're maybe looking at one in between half a million and a million. Or, as Auburn fans are beginning to call it, "November."
One can guess that the odds of this event also including the season-ending injury of an elite team's best offensive player are ... well ... let's just stop there.

 

[Seinfeld]

The funny thing about godly men like Freeze is that you don't necessarily have to cuss or or take the lord's name in vain in order to be a POS. I found out all I needed to know about that hypocritical loser as soon as he brought in his first recruiting class to Oxford

 

[Seinfeld]

I was there for that game, and it did hurt pretty badly. Not quite as much as the ice storm Arkansas game, but it did still suck.

On the same topic, has that rule been changed yet? It is one of the most absurd rules in college football to award the ball to a defense that didn't even intercept or recover it. If a ball is fumbled into and out of an end zone, it should simply be returned to the spot of the fumble.

 

[thekimmer]

Auburn fans are saying this about us and we won the d*** game!


QUOTE: I've seen Auburn fans bitching about Wallace and Freeze saying things like "I mean, we beat them" and "we were the better team".

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

I'm not sure about the rule. How about some more Mullen-era, MSU heartbreak?

2009 Vs LSU
1st year under Mullen. We are driving the ball with an opportunity to tie (and take the lead with a PAT) and we have Dixon in the backfield:

The goal line stands starts at the 6:14 minute mark of the video
http://youtu.be/K6jkYXHJXUc?t=6m14s


On the verge of ending the losing streak against LSU, raucous crowd (Bulldog Bash weekend), and the momentum had swung into our favor. All 170 pounds of Tyson Lee gets stuffed at the goal line and our fans are convinced that either Dixon on all 4 downs would have won, or Chris Relf at QB would have gotten the ball across the goal line. That loss was pretty rough and was at the front end of a streak of losses to all teams in the West not named Ole Miss.

2011 @ Auburn

Down 7 and goal to go from about the 1.5 yard line. Besides being down 7, it is the exact scenario where the big bodied QB Chris Relf can shine the most in, yet he is stuffed about 2 inches from the goalline and the ball never crossed the plane. Especially painful considering the Cam Newton drama from the year before was still fresh on our minds and considering it was another year and another loss to start SEC play.



None of these involved season ending injuries on the play, but the agony of the result in my mind was very much similar to what Ole Miss fans experienced Saturday. The success of this year appears to be purging these memories from the minds of our fanbase, which is certainly not a bad thing.

 

[EasyDog]

Dick Pace call in '81 still pisses me more than anything I've ever seen happen to us in a FB game. Worst 17ing call against us....EVER

 

[paindonthurt_]

I wasn't there, but I can imagine the immaculate deflection (1983 egg bowl?) being worse. The injury to Treadwell is the big part of what sucks so bad for them. The fumble and consequently the loss are bad, but without that injury, I don't think it is close to the perfect field goal being blown back.

 

[ByersFarm]

We were a hail mary completion away from losing to LSU in a game we completely dominated for 56 minutes before we stopped playing. If that hail mary is completed for a touchdown, that might've been the worst loss suffered by any team ever.

Edit to add:I also don't understand why people are going on and on about this being the worst loss ever suffered by any team ever. Even Bjork said in his ridiculous video that most teams will never have to go through what they did Saturday night. Give me a break. I do feel sorry for Treadwell and hate he got hurt, but it's not like Ole Miss is the first team to ever lose a game being stopped on the goal line or turning it over inside the 5. Hell, even if they score a TD there, Auburn would've had 1:30 to drive the field and score, which with their offense is plenty of time. We lost to LSU at the goal line in 2009 when Tyson Lee thought he was Tim Tebow instead of pitching to a wide open Dixon, and then lost to Auburn at the goal line in 2011 when Relf couldn't fall forward an inch after being hit. Now neither of these plays involved injuries, but it's not like Treadwell died. He'll be back in the spring.

Alabama's loss to OM was eerily similar. Last second turnover in the end zone, season ending broken leg to a star receiver, loss of starting center, and it all happened on the same field. Karma is a 17'n *****.

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

Alabama's loss to OM was eerily similar. Last second turnover in the end zone, season ending broken leg to a star receiver, loss of starting center, and it all happened on the same field. Karma is a 17'n *****.

We still have to field our team there as well

 

[Shamoan]

i think all that **** has built us to this point to be totally honest. each and every one of those are learning moments for us and at the time a young coach who has used those instances to learn and get better.

 

[MaronMatters]

It's amazing to look at the 2009 LSU game (or really any game in Mullen's first year) and compare it to just how much things have changed since. Mullen has some of those "I shoulda stayed a Florida" looks on his face in that video, and now he's unquestionably confident.

 

[EasyDog]

I was at the '83 game as well. It sucked for sure, but we melted down the entire 2nd half. As ****** as we played, we really didn't deserve to win. We kicked their *** in '81 and got royally screwed.