Quote Originally Posted by blacklistedbully View Post
But they have lost 3-in-a-row at their place twice before we came to town, and to some unimpressive teams.What so many of you aren't grasping is that, most of us who are "complaining" are really only "complaining" about the degree of accomplishment the OP wants to assign to these victories, or the reason for the wins.

We are happy for the wins, but perhaps more relieved, than happy. This is perfectly reasonable given the opponent, and given our performance just prior to our beating up of a couple of relative weaklings.

In our previous 7 games versus quality opponents we went 2-5, damn near going 1-6. We got our asses kicked in 3 of those 5 losses. It is simply foolish to imagine these past 4 games have remotely wiped-the-slate-clean on those previous games. We need to show we are capable of beating the quality teams consistently before we deserve to crow too much.

If we win 3 of the next 4, it'll be much more appropriate to be as positive as many of you feel is already warranted. At a minimum we need to go 2-2 with at least 1 loss being competitive, IMO.

Stop and reflect a minute. Going into the game versus Alcorn State followed by 3 versus Mizzou, what would it have taken to make you feel concerned we were in trouble? Would you really feel good if we'd lost even 1 of those games? If not, then why feel like the extra win means so much more?

I prefer to be glad we beat 2 teams we should have beaten every time, and let that give me hope we're coming out of it, rather than declare these 4 games as PROOF we have turned the corner.

Not this year Mizzou hasn't. We're the only team that has swept them in Columbia thus far.

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