Shake it up Gregg!!

[Overtime]

This is as close to a circular firing squad as I have seen in Shockland for a long time........We booed, the coach is mad we booed, the coach is mad at Lutz and Lutz is mad at coach, we are a Triple AAA crowd and we are mad the coach said that.....Oh yeah, did I mention that we are not playing very well........a 2 or 3 seed wasn't supposed to feel this bad

[WSUwatcher]

Fever

No point, Vance. Bipolar/Fever just forgot his meds again.

[pogo]

This is as close to a circular firing squad as I have seen in Shockland for a long time........We booed, the coach is mad we booed, the coach is mad at Lutz and Lutz is mad at coach, we are a Triple AAA crowd and we are mad the coach said that.....Oh yeah, did I mention that we are not playing very well........a 2 or 3 seed wasn't supposed to feel this bad

I don't remember who said it but they just wanted HCGM to let it go...the worst loss in Shocker history...well, Lutz brought up the subject again today, even after he prefaced the remark by saying he wasn't going to bring it up again but then he did. You know we all just need to loosen up and let it go because its making alot of people bitter and petty. Let me quote something that drives me nuts and makes no sense at all but is very popular nowdays..."It is what it is". It never makes me feel better about whatever context it is used in but I just wanted to use it. Go Shox

[ShockerFever]

Multiple meltdowns by Shockernetters in progress.......

Multiple meltdowns by coaches/players in progress.......

...and your point is?

Ask Aschockalypse what his point was again and I'll answer.

[ShockerFever]

Re: Fever

No point, Vance. Bipolar/Fever just forgot his meds again.

You're about as bad as jocoshock is about hanging onto my swimmermakers. No wonder Cold went off on you and sent you to your place in that hilarious video. You are the puppy and it shows with each and every substance-less post that you place in here. Not surprising that you cried to get rid of him either.

Puddycat.

[WuDrWu]

I suspect the Kyles injury is going to add a healthy amount of old man's beard to the flint and tinder of this discussion.


I'm guessing things are becoming officially shaken, not stirred.

[WSUwatcher]

!

Dear Fever,



Ignored -- except for one thing: am I a puppy or a puddycat? I can't resist checking back to find out, and then I'll move on elsewhere.

You really do need to refill that prescription, pal.

[ShockerFever]

Why do you keep proving my point PuppyWatcher? If you really wanted to ignore me, you would've done so years ago.

But alas, I do appreciate you upholding my thoughts. Gracias.

[WSUwatcher]

Too bad

Well, Wormwood/Fever, I ignore far more of your posts than you might imagine, and I'm a better man for it. But I'm disappointed you didn't clear up the puppy / puddycat confusion for me. I don't know whether to bark or meow.

:cry:

Oh well, time to let this thread, if it still has any life, return to its original topic. I'll just move on to more worthwhile venues, namely those that you haven't yet invaded in an attempt to honor the memory of your Uncle Screwtape -- uh, Cold.

[shockball]

Sullentrop made a point in one of his recent articles;

"Since Jan. 27, when the second half of the MVC season started, WSU's 5-3 record trails only first-place Northern Iowa (7-1) and Illinois State (6-2). WSU is 5-2 in MVC games in the second half, behind Northern Iowa (6-1) and equal with the Redbirds. The Shockers lost style points, especially for a loss at last-place Evansville. But they remain in second place throughout their ups and downs."

The Shocks had one of the most difficult first half schedules and one of the easiest second half. We did not take advantage of the chance to move to first, or separate ourselves from the pack. The team has still been winning, just not at the level we recently came to expect. Hope it is a temporary slump.

[ShockerFever]

Re: Too bad

Well, Wormwood/Fever, I ignore far more of your posts than you might imagine, and I'm a better man for it. But I'm disappointed you didn't clear up the puppy / puddycat confusion for me. I don't know whether to bark or meow.

:cry:

Oh well, time to let this thread, if it still has any life, return to its original topic. I'll just move on to more worthwhile venues, namely those that you haven't yet invaded in an attempt to honor the memory of your Uncle Screwtape -- uh, Cold.

PuppyWatcher,

This is the second time in a row that you said you were done with me and this topic. What this proves is this is festering inside of you and the memories of old are getting to you.. :cry:

Again, though, I love when you prove my points. It's very satisfying.

[shoxilla]

This is as close to a circular firing squad as I have seen in Shockland for a long time........We booed, the coach is mad we booed, the coach is mad at Lutz and Lutz is mad at coach, we are a Triple AAA crowd and we are mad the coach said that.....Oh yeah, did I mention that we are not playing very well........a 2 or 3 seed wasn't supposed to feel this bad

"Circular firing squad" - kinda like this...

http://www.guzer.com/videos/dodge-ball-world-record.php

:D

[pogo]

SN is really starting to remind me of grade school. Can't someone remember there is a PM option?

[rZ]

SN is really starting to remind me of grade school.

Only less profanity on ShockerNet.

[WSUwatcher]

The key

Moving on -- Shockball, I think you've hit upon the real key when you note: "The Shocks had one of the most difficult first half schedules and one of the easiest second half."

Apart from our having our share of folks who like to huff and puff and bark (so to speak) about coaches screwing up even though they have no coaching experience or knowledge themselves, which is a hazard of message boards in general, the point you cite about an easy second half is almost surely the real cause of all the consternation.

The Shocks were 17-3 and 6-2 before the trip to Drake. The next nine games, including a trip to Drake (an underappreciated challenge) and two against a bad Evansville team, looked like a relative breather. Suddenly 22-7 after 29 games, which most WSU fans would have accepted with delight if you had offered it to them before the season began, didn't seem like such a great deal when it meant that the Shocks would have to be just 5-4 over that "easy" stretch to get there.

Even worse, when you look at how the Shocks produced that 5-4 stretch -- the poor, meandering sort of effort at Drake, and then after a decent recovery that included two wins, one a road game at SIU (how often does WSU do that?) and a very tough loss at UNI, a messy win followed by an embarrassing loss and then two more messy wins leading up to the trip to Utah State -- you can see why the armchair coaches, some of whom are ready to burst into flames at any given moment anyway, are breathing fire. Expectations had been reset (and properly so, by the way) but then not achieved, the team is in a downtrend, and memories of several weak finishes by Turgeon's teams have thus been revived all too vividly.

Almost regardless of what happens from here on out, this will go down as a very successful season for WSU and a stepping stone to a still brighter future. But unless things pick up, the folks who forgot that 17-3 through 20 games was better than they were expecting, or that slumps happen even in stronger and more established programs than what Marshall has been able to put together here so far, are going to look back at that run of essentially .500 ball, focus on it, and lose sight of the season as a whole.