(09-08-2017 11:27 AM)JMad03 Wrote:  

(09-08-2017 10:48 AM)Dukes94 Wrote:  Pride goes before the fall. It's so much more satisfying when you just STFU and let the results speak for themselves. ECU fans were running their mouths just like you guys last week.

You people seem to think we're going undefeated with a 40-point average margin of victory. We might. We might not, too.

ECU had zero credibility to trash talk us. They were 3-9 last year and were proven to be delusional. We actually had reason to be confident and we backed it up.

While I understand your point, we are fans on a message board. When I'm at a game and we beat the pants off a team, you'll never see me running around them bragging about our win. On a message board, when other fans want to come here and mix it up, I like to have fun with it. When a 3-9 team comes over here saying they'll thump us, I want to tell them why they're wrong. At the same time, if we get our butts handed to us, I'll be the first to congratulate them on being the better team.

Even NDSU, a program that has solidified itself as a powerhouse, has fans that trash talk and mix it up with the better of them. There's a big difference between talking trash when you have nothing to back it up versus talking trash when your team gives you validation to be confident in your team.

Of course we could falter and lose, because any team can lose to anybody, but I'm not going to live my life in fear of what might happen. Should I be pessimistic because we might not win? Of course not. I refuse to be afraid to speak my mind because of what might or might not happen.
And until it happens, I expect our team to have 40+ margins of victory and be undefeated. If it doesn't happen, I'll shrug it off and move on and continue to support my team and have fun..... and be delusional as any good fan should be.

I prefer 94's attitude to some of the hubris that goes on here and AGS. No one on here knew the result of the ECU game as fact. It's all conjecture and opinion, no matter how informed and reasonable they may be. I personally like to modulate my attitude based on the audience. To esteemed rivals like W&M, Villanova, and Delaware I'll be civil and respectful. To nefarious opponents like RU and admin apologists, derision is the soup of the day.