We were up by 7 with a minute and half in a big game
They were up by 9 with 2:12 in regulatio in the Big game.
We both choked.
But their choke job was on a much bigger stage. I am going to get some good sleep tonight.
But their choke job was on a much bigger stage. I am going to get some good sleep tonight.
We lost to Memphis at home. Our biggest home game.
They lost to Kansas in the National Championship game, on National TV. The biggest stage there is. They're hurting about as bad as it gets.
I was a huge Houston fan during Phi Slamma Jama. Every time the NCAA tournament comes around, they run the video again, and it's always the same nightmare sequence... Derek Whittenburg throws up an airball from thirty feet out, and then Lorenzo Charles appears out of nowhere, grabs the airball, and jams it home. Cue Jim Valvano running around the court looking for someone to hug and Olajuan face down pounding the court in frustration.
That was in 1983, and every tournament I'm forced to endure it again. You have no idea how badly it sucks, or how vilely I curse the television when I see it yet again.
Memphis fans only think that Darius Washington's missed free throws hurt. The missed four out of five free throws tonight is going to stick in their craws for decades of miserable thoughts of what might have been.
Very similar ending of both games. Late game meltdown with the star player missing key free throws and then a last second shot by the other team's star. Guy bring the ball up the court for a missed half court shot.
I know they're hurting right now and I was pulling for them, but I find it hilarious that Cal was complaining for a foul on Dozier's last shot when Memphis fans said we were whining about Vaden being fouled on that last shot.
not even close bud. If we had lost, it would not have hurt as bad as this.
Your dislike for Memphis is clouding your common sense.
Cal never said that. Never.
Cal never said that. Never.
He certainly said it to the refs. He made a motion with his body saying "he was hit". I could read his lips.
whatever. he didn't say it in the press conf--for all you know he was complaining that we tried to foul Kansas--which was what he says in the postgame.
Oh well---a great season, they played their hearts out.
not even close bud. If we had lost, it would not have hurt as bad as this.
Your dislike for Memphis is clouding your common sense.
No I think the pain you are feeling right now is clouding your reading comprehension. I know it would not have hurt Memphis as much to lose to UAB as it did to lose the national championship, but I am looking at it from a different perspective.
To the UAB fan, we thought we had beaten the #1 team in the country. We were wrong and it hurt like hell.
The Memphis fan thought they had won the national championship. They were wrong and it also hurts.
The UAB - Memphis game was UAB's biggest game of the year. It hurt to choke it.
The Memphis Kansas game was Memphis's biggest game of the year. It hurts to choke it.
The pain felt by both fanbases are very similar,Trust me.
And My feelings for Memphis has nothing to do with it.
you have NO CLUE HOW THIS FEELS. A conf game can not compare to THE GAME. Ever.
We're complaining about who hurt more... "I cry more than your cry..."
Sucks for the conference. Now UAB needs to step up big.
I will freely admit this--I am being a jerk and need to shut my mouth.
I have no idea how another person felt and I feel somehwat like a little girl that dropped her ice cream. Ya'll have a good night and I will go away, where I belong.
you have NO CLUE HOW THIS FEELS. A conf game can not compare to THE GAME. Ever.
With all due respect, eg, the difference is in order of magnitude. The feeling's the same. I was sick that night.
you have NO CLUE HOW THIS FEELS. A conf game can not compare to THE GAME. Ever.
With all due respect, eg, the difference is in order of magnitude. The feeling's the same. I was sick that night.
For days.... it was like a fog. 
Too bad for the tiggers. We'll get em for ya next year 
I hurt too after that game in Bartow but there is absolutely no comparison in losing a regular season conference game on a regional network and the National Championship game on a world wide stage. yea we hurt but if we would have been in the same position I guarantee you we would have hurt a hell of allot more. Yes we do have a clue how Memphis fans feel but just a clue. If I were a Memphis fan I would have puked my guts out after that choke job but hey, give them credit for being there and shoving it in the noses of the establishment.
When you have Belief, every loss is painful. And it must be true Belief, our own Belief.
Here's a snippet from this morning's New York Times, by Pete Thamel:
<<The thing I’ll probably remember the most, though, is the Rev. Jesse Jackson standing outside. He’s been with the Memphis team of late, offering words of encouragement and advice.
“A champion falls and gets back up again,” Jackson said. “The ground is no place for a champion.”
He then asked a handful of news media around him where they were from. It went something like, “The Jerusalem Post,” “The Washington Post” and I said, “The New York Times.”
He looked at me, eyes wide, slapped me playfully in the chest with the back of his hand and smiled. And then he walked away.>>
When UAB finally gets to the big stage, Jesse Jackson can keep his butt up in the Windy City, or wherever his worthless hide resides these days.
I hurt too after that game in Bartow but there is absolutely no comparison in losing a regular season conference game on a regional network and the National Championship game on a world wide stage. yea we hurt but if we would have been in the same position I guarantee you we would have hurt a hell of allot more. Yes we do have a clue how Memphis fans feel but just a clue. If I were a Memphis fan I would have puked my guts out after that choke job but hey, give them credit for being there and shoving it in the noses of the establishment.
Thanks Attalla. It does hurt, but it was a fun, fun ride while it lasted. I will tell you that when the inbounds pass was stolen and the 3 hit to cut the lead to 4, I said "uh oh". Oh well. we'll get em next year. Thanks to C-USA schools for preparing the Tigers much better than the media thought. This was a battle tested team.
You choke away a national championship and your in-state rival beats you at home to keep you from going undefeated. Wow! How many Memphis fans will remember 38 wins. If they spent as much time practicing free throws as they do that pregame dance things might be different today. As much as I wanted our conference champion to be the national champion i was reminded of them taking their shirts off and taunting our students after the game at Bartow. Great going tigers. You still have won the same number of nation championships as we have..
Go Blazers!
I really can't imagine how much it must have hurt last night to lose that game. I suspect it was several orders of magnitude greater than our one loss at The Bart this past season.
Here is my prediction - Memphis will never recover from losing the National Championship. They have been to the mountain top, but they immediately slipped off to the other side, never to recover.
I can't wait to see the signs when Memphis comes to the Bart next year.
I think you guys have forgotten how huge the loss on February 16 was. We thought we had our biggest rival, the number one team in the country at the time beaten. We were sure that this was the win needed to put us in the NCAA tournament, where Vaden would lead us deep into the tournament. We knew this was going to be the signature win of the season. Then it all fell apart in a mere minute of play. Some of our fans were so distraught, they ran onto the court and confronted the Memphis team calling them racial slurs and threatened them with bodily harm. Others threw water bottles and shakers. Some threw their liquor bottles to the court. Still some of our vilest fans whipped out their equipment and peed into cups provided for the occasion and threw that at Fortune 500 CEO's. After the game, we hunted down Tiger fans and shot them in cold blood with ugly stares and menacing gestures. We had our cops threaten them with arrest and imprisonment. Hell, we broke noses. Or so it has been reported.
Never let it be said that our pain was less.
A reaction to a loss such as that could only be brought about by a pain of a loss equal to losing the National championship.
Believe me, if that game had been played last night in Memphis, the Plush Club would have been burnt to the ground.
the idea that the loss is comparable is laughable to me. It is a conf. game. Come on--it didn't really mean anything. Had you won--you might have gotten in the dance. Might-but I think the big thing that kept you out was the humiliating 40 point loss to Memphis in Memphis. There was no hardware. No banners on the line. You still weren't gonna win the conf championship. Memphis may not get back to the title game any time soon. But, until you do--you can't possibly understand what it felt like to lose that game. As a lifelong Memphis fan, I have suffered through some awful losses. They all healed with time. I still hate Hackney. I still remember Brett Favre at USM in the rain. i still remember FSU kicking a field goal as time expired to tie the game. I still remember the miracle in Knoxville--they were nothinjg like this. Nothing. because the games didn't mean as much.
I will NEVER get over this loss----
I got over it about the time I saw that
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' was on Starz HD
the idea that the loss is comparable is laughable to me. It is a conf. game. Come on--it didn't really mean anything. Had you won--you might have gotten in the dance. Might-but I think the big thing that kept you out was the humiliating 40 point loss to Memphis in Memphis. There was no hardware. No banners on the line. You still weren't gonna win the conf championship. Memphis may not get back to the title game any time soon. But, until you do--you can't possibly understand what it felt like to lose that game. As a lifelong Memphis fan, I have suffered through some awful losses. They all healed with time. I still hate Hackney. I still remember Brett Favre at USM in the rain. i still remember FSU kicking a field goal as time expired to tie the game. I still remember the miracle in Knoxville--they were nothinjg like this. Nothing. because the games didn't mean as much.
I will NEVER get over this loss----
Dude, you've already gone back to the Tigers board posting a pack of lies whining about how we're on this board talking about Memphis moreso than UAB.
If you never get over this loss that is fine by most of us here. If you need grief counseling seek help from your message board.
But you're full of s*it and if you never posted over here again you wouldn't be missed. Now you can take you little degrading comments about UAB and be gone. Post that on the thread you started about UAB Fans on the Tigers board and kiss my azz.
Go UAB!
the idea that the loss is comparable is laughable to me. It is a conf. game. Come on--it didn't really mean anything. Had you won--you might have gotten in the dance. Might-but I think the big thing that kept you out was the humiliating 40 point loss to Memphis in Memphis. There was no hardware. No banners on the line. You still weren't gonna win the conf championship. Memphis may not get back to the title game any time soon. But, until you do--you can't possibly understand what it felt like to lose that game. As a lifelong Memphis fan, I have suffered through some awful losses. They all healed with time. I still hate Hackney. I still remember Brett Favre at USM in the rain. i still remember FSU kicking a field goal as time expired to tie the game. I still remember the miracle in Knoxville--they were nothinjg like this. Nothing. because the games didn't mean as much.
I will NEVER get over this loss----
If you can't get over the loss of a BASKETBALL GAME, you need to rethink your priorities.
Let's see, at 6:05 pm, 2 hours and 39 minutes before that post above, Mr. Grizzard writes on empty.org: "I will stay off their boards"
Moderators, please help Mr. Grizzard keep his pledge, for he cannot help himself.
Anytime ANY team loses a big game it hurts. That would include football as well as basketball. So when Notre Dame loses to USC....they are hurt. That is human nature and not unique to Memphis or UAB. I believe the difference might be in how fans handle defeats, not in the defeat itself.
Anytime ANY team loses a big game it hurts. That would include football as well as basketball. So when Notre Dame loses to USC....they are hurt. That is human nature and not unique to Memphis or UAB. I believe the difference might be in how fans handle defeats, not in the defeat itself.
I would say that choking it away stings much much more than losing to a better team.
Anytime ANY team loses a big game it hurts. That would include football as well as basketball. So when Notre Dame loses to USC....they are hurt. That is human nature and not unique to Memphis or UAB. I believe the difference might be in how fans handle defeats, not in the defeat itself.
I would say that choking it away stings much much more than losing to a better team.
Well. not necessarily. I lived in Florida for a long time and no matter what the score, Florida and Florida State hate to lose to each other.
Same with Memphis and Louisville.
Anytime ANY team loses a big game it hurts. That would include football as well as basketball. So when Notre Dame loses to USC....they are hurt. That is human nature and not unique to Memphis or UAB. I believe the difference might be in how fans handle defeats, not in the defeat itself.
I would say that choking it away stings much much more than losing to a better team.
Well. not necessarily. I lived in Florida for a long time and no matter what the score, Florida and Florida State hate to lose to each other.
Same with Memphis and Louisville.
Those are rivalry games. Big difference.
Let me try this again. That loss stings more because Memphis was the better team that night and just choked away the NC. If Kansas was clearly the better team, the loss would not sting as much. Follow me now.
You choke away a national championship and your in-state rival beats you at home to keep you from going undefeated. Wow! How many Memphis fans will remember 38 wins. If they spent as much time practicing free throws as they do that pregame dance things might be different today. As much as I wanted our conference champion to be the national champion i was reminded of them taking their shirts off and taunting our students after the game at Bartow. Great going tigers. You still have won the same number of nation championships as we have..
Go Blazers!
the difference is....we;ve been there twice.
Your team never will.....ev-er.
You choke away a national championship and your in-state rival beats you at home to keep you from going undefeated. Wow! How many Memphis fans will remember 38 wins. If they spent as much time practicing free throws as they do that pregame dance things might be different today. As much as I wanted our conference champion to be the national champion i was reminded of them taking their shirts off and taunting our students after the game at Bartow. Great going tigers. You still have won the same number of nation championships as we have..
Go Blazers!
the difference is....we;ve been there twice.
Your team never will.....ev-er.
Once again, congratulations on choking away another NC. Now tell us how many times you have been to the finals without controversy, suspension of players, or having it removed from NCAA records due to cheating?
