Our Season Is Not Over!

[Chaser728]

I remember when we lost to SFA that many of us thought our season was over. I remember a blow out loss to ISU and then we were no longer worthy of a tourney bid. This was plain and simple a blown opportunity, but it does not mean the end of our Tourney chances. After each of those losses how did OU respond? After SFA: 5 straight wins. After ISU: a win against #5 KU. Good teams lose on the road to bad teams. Good teams even blow big leads; see Michigan's game tonight for an example for both. We LON "Freaking" Kruger as our Coach; we are gonna be alright! Boomer.

 

[MsProudSooner]

I remember when we lost to SFA that many of us thought our season was over. I remember a blow out loss to ISU and then we were no longer worthy of a tourney bid. This was plain and simple a blown opportunity, but it does not mean the end of our Tourney chances. After each of those losses how did OU respond? After SFA: 5 straight wins. After ISU: a win against #5 KU. Good teams lose on the road to bad teams. Good teams even blow big leads; see Michigan's game tonight for an example for both. We LON "Freaking" Kruger as our Coach; we are gonna be alright! Boomer.

You are absolutely correct. But the whiners don't want to hear it.

 

[Chaser728]

You are absolutely correct. But the whiners don't want to hear it.

Yep. Gotta be positive though. Unny that we don't hear from or see these guys until we lose like this.

 

[StatGeek]

Yep. Gotta be positive though. Unny that we don't hear from or see these guys until we lose like this.

Tell me about it, where in the hell do these folks come from?

 

[MercedeSooner]

people need to vent, worse things to do after a loss like this then posting your frustrations on a message board.

 

[MsProudSooner]

Tell me about it, where in the hell do these folks come from?

Some of them come from 'home' boards that don't support the Crimson and Cream. Everybody needs a hobby, I guess.

 

[Chaser728]

people need to vent, worse things to do after a loss like this then posting your frustrations on a message board.

Yeah, I guess that is true!

 

[stormspencer]

people need to vent, worse things to do after a loss like this then posting your frustrations on a message board.

Agree 100%. Let people vent. This loss was brutal the way it went down. Some people may overreact, but most of them will come to their senses in a day or two.

 

[korgy]

It was a tough loss and it stings but you are right. Two more wins and we are in the tourney and it will be so refreshing to be able to fill out that bracket and see OU in one of those spots!

 

[SoonerTraveler]

Tell me about it, where in the hell do these folks come from?

Don't know. They must hide in the weeds after a good Sooner win.

Illegitimi non carborundum

 

[MsProudSooner]

Don't know. They must hide in the weeds after a good Sooner win.

Illegitimi non carborundum

Google Translate says: Illegitimately not carborundum. ??????

 

[SoonerTraveler]

"illegitimi non carborundum"

"illegitimi non carborundum" (don't let the bastards get you down)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum

Illegitimi non carborundum is a mock-Latin aphorism meaning "Don't let the bastards grind you down".

The phrase originated during World War II. Lexicographer Eric Partridge attributes it to British army intelligence very early in the war (using the plural dative/ablative illegitimis). The phrase was adopted by US Army general "Vinegar" Joe Stillwell as his motto during the war. It was later further popularized in the US by 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.

Generations of Harvard students have taken the phrase into the world, as it is the first line of an unofficial school song Ten Thousand Men of Harvard, the most frequently played Fight song of the Harvard Marching Band. This is, to some extent, a parody of more solemn school songs like "Fair Harvard thy sons to your Jubilee throng" etc. The first verse goes:

Illegitimum non carborundum;
Domine salvum fac.
Illegitimum non carborundum;
Domine salvum fac.
Gaudeamus igitur!
Veritas non sequitur?
Illegitimum non carborundum—ipso facto!