(08-24-2017 09:11 AM)12thmonarch Wrote: (08-24-2017 09:02 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote: (08-24-2017 08:32 AM)12thmonarch Wrote: (08-24-2017 07:00 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote: (08-23-2017 03:03 PM)12thmonarch Wrote: Ah a western ****'icky fan's sadness is so tasteful.
Yea CUSA back to back champions is a reason for tears...
Yeah captain obvious it is if bringing back a non-existent program and transitioning it from FCS to FBS in CUSA and having a 10 win season and a bowl win equals a most miserable fan base. Your own logic ain't it.
All I know is when played the Butterflies last season the game was over by end of 1st quarter...If I was a fan of other team that day I would be in tears...Was men vs boys...
Yeah that happened to bloody tampon's(what ever that red blob thingy was) as well when they transitioned to FBS. Tell me what your win-loss records were during 09,10 and 11. Real men feel sad but don't cry after a terrible FB loss.
A few things about those years...good and bad. Past and present.
Western thought (mistakenly) the talent difference was not that great from 1AA to SBC football. While at some spots that would be correct. Overall size and depth and skill was a huge difference.
Western lost a lot of games in the 4th qter after leading. That's the depth part. That was redshirting whole classes. That also paid off big in later years and still today.
But sitting in those stands game after game was Misery. It reached a low point on Sep 17, 2011 in a total embarrassment, beatdown, by Indiana St. I remember leaving that game and saying....
this program is dead. Will never recover from that loss...not in my lifetime
Funny how things changed in a short amount of time. Went from one of the lowest points I can remember for Western sports. To a turn around that has Western on the cusp of being one of the top G5 programs of the future. Of course a lot of building on the last few years still needs to take place.
But to go from losing 16-44 to Indiana St. to turning that season around with 7 wins then win 7, 8,8, 12,11 wins and back to back conference championships....
can be laid at the feet of those 26 losses Western took all in a row.
But if anyone asked me how I felt on Sep 17, 2011 around 9pm. Misery would be looking up at what I just saw. I honestly thought Western as a FBS program...was dead