This is how I currently feel...

[vandaldawg]

We just rolled out the best team in any sport ever in the history of MSU sports, and had the best possible set up we could hope to have in a national championship game, and we blew it.

I cannot keep the thought out of my head that we just won't ever win one. In any sport. So now, one of the things in life I love the most in Mississippi State the university and it's associated athletic teams are just doomed to failure for all eternity. So continuing to support it with heart and soul feels like an exercise in vanity. The only thing worse than continuing on with that exercise is quitting. So here I am, doomed to a life of utter pointlessness.

And now I am supremely depressed. I also recognize that there is no logic to this. But I'm starting to think maybe logic doesn't apply when it comes to Mississippi State sports. I welcome someone out there to point out why I'm wrong. But this is how I feel now, and I don't see a time in the near future when I won't feel this way.

 

[Bulldogg31]

37-2 and back-to-back title games is failure? C'mon man. We're pretty 17'ng good in a lot of stuff these days.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

This Notre Dame coach lost 4 straight titles. Then got this one. I’m stoked we are competing for titles in multiple sports now. We will get one. I just hope this current Sixpack group is all alive to enjoy it.

 

[vandaldawg]

37-2 and back-to-back title games is failure? C'mon man. We're pretty 17'ng good in a lot of stuff these days.

Agreed. And I am as proud and excited by that fact as I can be. But getting there isn't good enough. And when it comes down to it, I don't ever see us pounding the final nail in and walking away with the trophy. I'm starting to actually believe the burial ground myth.

 

[vandaldawg]

This Notre Dame coach lost 4 straight titles. Then got this one. I’m stoked we are competing for titles in multiple sports now. We will get one. I just hope this current Sixpack group is all alive to enjoy it.

I wouldn't be as despondent about this loss if we had as many national titles in football as ND has.

 

[o_dawgnabit]

Exactly how I feel and it’s depressing. I’ve been born and raised a dawg and it just sucks thinking we may never see a team reach the top in any sport. And I wanted it so bad for these girls. They have completely changed our program and made all of us very interested in this sport

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Just trying to help man. The wound is fresh. We all know what we support. No one can truly understand how we feel when we really accomplish something. Don’t get too down. Being a State fan can be brutal but it’s also delivering more rewards current state than ever before. I like our current trend.

 

[kired]

It's never going to happen... 17n never. And it's so damn depressing. I'm right there with you. Wish I could give up MSU sports, but I can't and won't. Just sucks that we'll never be able to say we were the absolute best in any team sport.

 

[Bulldogg31]

I wouldn't be as despondent about this loss if we had as many national titles in football as ND has.

I'm not being a dick here, but I always ask myself the question after a game like this..."how would my Monday be different if we'd have won tonight?" Honestly, not that different. Maybe I could walk a little taller? Brag to friends? Then what? Nothing. We'd get on with our Monday and move on to the next thing.

Maybe I'm old but I've come to realize there are a precious few things in life that are TRULY important, and the rest is just backstory.

Losing this game or winning this game is backstory. Laugh it off and move on.

Hailstate

 

[vandaldawg]

Just trying to help man. The wound is fresh. We all know what we support. No one can truly understand how we feel when we really accomplish something. Don’t get too down. Being a State fan can be brutal but it’s also delivering more rewards current state than ever before. I like our current trend.

Thanks, dude. That is actually what I needed to hear. I just 17ing hate this. I can only imagine how Vic and those girls feel right now.

 

[PineGroveBully]

This pack group made it through Larry Tinkle, Doc, Winston Churchill Croom, Renardo, Rick Ray, Polk part duex, Mullen over where else can I go, and Cann's cellphone etiquette. We'll just be older and codgier when we finally plant that flag on the hilltop. Tomorrow and the days to come we'll feel differently than we might have professed tonight. Tomorrow's a new day, we have nothing to hang our head over, and theres a school to the northwest of us that would love to trade athletic programs with us while they're becoming more and more of an afterthought to us each and everyday. Hail State.

 

[DamnitDog]

You are not alone, Slow Hand Clap and esteemed bow to your post sir - this is EXACTLY how I feel right now. But this is the way I have felt my entire life as a MSU Bulldog Fan.

Why do we continue to support such a futile existence? Why? Because we are fans and we love this school and what is the word fans short for? Fanatics! In time our pain will heal and our fire will return, because The Coach JoMo reign is just beginning and he will provide that all allusive and ever fleeting thing called: Hope & Faith in our Bulldogs! Hail State!!!!

 

[tatedog]

A wise man once said, "If you are going through hell, keep going." Regardless of today's outcome, win or lose, I can also promise you that nothing that matters about your life changed.

 

[msu84grad]

I would like to place some perspective on this. As someone who was the Reflector sports editor from 1982-1984 I had to cover a lot of subpar teams playing in the toughest conference in the NCAA. While winning a Natty would be the topping on the cake, I learned that my pride in MSU made these results less difficult to handle. We can look to the greatness that has developed in all athletic programs just adds to a school that even 30 years ago was a great place to be. Though we may not have a trophy to put in the case, all Bulldogs have pride in what our school has accomplished. When I get on campus now I am not surprised at how it has grown. It is our pride in our school, ourselves, and our State that pushes us all to the top. We may come up one short on the athletic stage, but we are number in our hearts and in our State... HAIL STATE from the class of 1984.

 

[tatedog]

I would like to place some perspective on this. As someone who was the Reflector sports editor from 1982-1984 I had to cover a lot of subpar teams playing in the toughest conference in the NCAA. While winning a Natty would be the topping on the cake, I learned that my pride in MSU made these results less difficult to handle. We can look to the greatness that has developed in all athletic programs just adds to a school that even 30 years ago was a great place to be. Though we may not have a trophy to put in the case, all Bulldogs have pride in what our school has accomplished. When I get on campus now I am not surprised at how it has grown. It is our pride in our school, ourselves, and our State that pushes us all to the top. We may come up one short on the athletic stage, but we are number in our hearts and in our State... HAIL STATE from the class of 1984.

I was gonna say it somewhere else, but you said it well here. If anyone thinks we've had a rough go of it in the last 10-20 years as a State fan, we are getting spoiled.

 

[bulldognation]

To really put this in perspective... take a look at how this team has changed T. McCowan's life in general. To hear that she was awkward and felt as though she couldn't even go outside to play with her friends as a child due to her size is heartwrenching.

Imagine how much of a celebrity she's become due to the game, Coach Vic, this team and the Mississippi State family.

The reality of right now is we got to the NC and lost. But to her, she got to establish herself as a force to be reckoned with and anchored one of the best Mississippi State teams in recent memory.

That's life-changing stuff she gets to take with her into the future.

 

[JoMo MoJo]

Just remember. Anyone can be an Alabama fan. It takes something special to repeatedly take these punches in the stomach and get right back up and brush off your Maroon and white.

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

I just want 1 National Title in anything. Even though there is some merit to us blowing it we got absolutely 17ed on that tackle at halfcourt. Morgan William who shoots 85% from FT line should have been shooting free throws. The 17ing human element in officiating has to 17ing go. At this point I’d rather see the robot refs instead of Anything else bc you know the team that won actually deserved it.

 

[skydawg1]

I just want 1 National Title in anything. Even though there is some merit to us blowing it we got absolutely 17ed on that tackle at halfcourt. Morgan William who shoots 85% from FT line should have been shooting free throws. The 17ing human element in officiating has to 17ing go. At this point I’d rather see the robot refs instead of Anything else bc you know the team that won actually deserved it.

We have a Men's Tennis Doubles title and a *ahem* disc golf title. And maybe a fishing 'ship?

 

[5049]

We just rolled out the best team in any sport ever in the history of MSU sports, and had the best possible set up we could hope to have in a national championship game, and we blew it.

I cannot keep the thought out of my head that we just won't ever win one. In any sport. So now, one of the things in life I love the most in Mississippi State the university and it's associated athletic teams are just doomed to failure for all eternity. So continuing to support it with heart and soul feels like an exercise in vanity. The only thing worse than continuing on with that exercise is quitting. So here I am, doomed to a life of utter pointlessness.

And now I am supremely depressed. I also recognize that there is no logic to this. But I'm starting to think maybe logic doesn't apply when it comes to Mississippi State sports. I welcome someone out there to point out why I'm wrong. But this is how I feel now, and I don't see a time in the near future when I won't feel this way.

I feel the exact same way. Nowadays, I don't really even get much joy out of it anymore. I want to win, and it's lunacy that I CHOOSE to support a program that loses much more often than it wins, and usually loses ALL significant games