On This Week In Schadenfreude we explore the sputtering rage, gibbering condemnation, and resigned ennui of the college football fan who has recently undergone humiliating defeat. Because even in your darkest hour, someone else is suffering too, and probably worse than you. Unless you are a Michigan fan who has just finished watching the Appalachian State game.scha·den·freu·deDictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
–noun
satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
There is only one team in the state of Louisiana it is acceptable to lose to unless you are a Sun Belt team, and it's not Louisiana Monroe. Despite this, Nick Saban and his $4 million dollar contract managed to drop a game to a team with a nickname ("Warhawks") that sounds better suited for the Arena League than college football. The Capstone Report says don't blame Shula, blame everybody:
These players quit, won't fill assignments and won't accept responsibility for their actions. The players know it -- they are listless, without leadership and without pride. They don't know how to be champions, and what may be the most astounding thing I've ever seen, they don't seem to want to learn how to be champions.
Ouch. Alabama, you are the Tears of Unfathomable Sadness victor this week.
Remarkably, the Capstone Report isn't done ripping things to shreds. Do you like 'Bama? Then it's your fault:
Shula never would've been here if it weren't for the real people who have ruined Alabama football. Take a good look in the mirror.Even a more restrained viewpoint at Roll Bama Roll is still starkly negative:
It is probably you.
Alabama's troubles today began when Mike Dubose was elected Alabama's head football coach by the fans. The loud tide of fans who demanded Dubose be hired launched Alabama into a decade of misery and mediocrity. ...
Now the fans who are hurting from the recent loss, and are looking for someone to blame, here's my advice: Shut up. It is your fault.
Bottom line: This loss is as bad as it seems, and probably worse. It could be the worst single loss for Alabama since the arrival of Bear Bryant.Hey, at least you're not ...
| BIG TEN |
Michigan. The Hoover Street Rag sums up the Michigan-Ohio State game:  Yes, yes it did. Over on MGoBlog your intrepid author declares Saturday's game to have a unique place in Michigan history: Saturday was wet and cold and miserable and had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Though other games have been more painful or less competitive, November 17th, 2007, stands alone in terms of sheer miserable boredom.If you really want the straight morphine drip of Michigan schadenfreude, the nonstop Buckeye flaming and Michigan infighting on the 2,000+ comment open thread should tide you over for days. One comment picked at near-random: Something that was dying in me died tonight (Italian time). This is clearly the worst-coached big-time football program in the country. I work in the field of language for a medical institution and edit medical papers. As a result I have some experience with the basic, humanistic notions of empiricism. Mathematically, there is just no way that X amount of talent produces Y amount of results without an empiracally [sic] sustainable thesis.(Yes, Michigan fans are a little different than most.) Oh, snap! You just got owned, Michigan coaches. |
Iowa. The Hawkeyes seemed to be getting things together in time to make a crappy bowl run, but then 3-7 Western Michigan rolled into town and beat Iowa. Over at Black Heart, Gold Pants Hawkeye State declares the season the "most depressing of [his] life": Tonight it appears highly likely Iowa's 2007 season is over. They have finished 6-6 (4-4), with losses against such juggernauts as Iowa State (3-9) and Western Michigan (4-7). One in ten Iowa football players was implicated in criminal activity of one kind or another. That's not a misprint. One in ten. The man in charge, who keeps telling us to stay the course and retains his assistant coaches despite a demonstrated lack of results, made 2100% more than the governor for presiding over this debacle.Fellow BHGB author Jebus H Christ helpfully provides a montage of Jared Leto having horrible things done to him, if that would brighten your day. |
Penn State. It might help the fakest rivalry in all the land if Michigan State wins from time to time, but that won't make the trophy any less ridiculous. Black Shoe Diaries on PSU's dismal end to their season: Congratulations to Michigan State. You were pretty crappy today, but you weren't as crappy as us. Enjoy your Land Grant Trophy. We were getting tired of storing that piece of s*** anyway. Please take care of the homeless guy living inside it. He isn't welcome in State College anymore. His name is Anthony and he likes Italian food. He can be useful if you give him small jobs here and there, but don't ask him to wash dishes as he tends to drop things when startled.Meanwhile, commenters are eyeing potential Alamo foe Texas Tech nervously after Brian Hoyer -- Brian Hoyer! -- torched the vaunted PSU secondary: My God, I can see it now."Harrell sets Bowl record with 700 yards passing, 12 TDs, leaves Penn State defense in fetal position"Another waggish commenter provides the headline to that article: "Anthony Morelli Costs Penn State Another Win." Zing! |
| PAC 10 |
Oregon. God hates Oregon. That's the only explanation for what happened on Thursday: Dennis Dixon's leg gives out and a parade of fumbles and interceptions and Brady Leaf did his Brady Leaf thing -- I wonder if there's some Leaf brother out there leading a high school team directly into the ground -- and Oregon lost to Arizona. Goodbye, national championship. Addicted To Quack had a simple in-game question: Why the f*** is Leaf still in the game?The aftermath: Arizona is a crap team. And I have no problem saying that. We lost to a crap team. It happens. I can live with that. And if the voters want to plummet us to the ends of the Earth for losing to a crap team, I'm fine with that.ATQ also points out that Oregon hasn't won the Rose Bowl since 1917... there's still a lot on the line for the Ducks, including a BCS berth if they can get past Oregon State. Leaf starts. Uh-oh. |
| SEC |
The SEC was quiet this week other than the Warhawk upset; many teams had the week off and the rest of the league went according to form, though Tennessee was one Vandy field goal away from an extensive section of fire Phil(!) posts. |
| BIG EAST |
You've probably forgotten that Louisville was ever good at football by now, but there is an unfortunate group of people reminded every week: Louisville fans. South Florida -- remember them? -- just got done stomping UL 55-17. Card Chronicle's mostly moved on to basketball season, but did find time to post Emo Song Lyrics: Gloomy is Sunday,Oh, Emo Song Lyrics, they never fail. Unlike Lousiville's defense. |
| BIG TWELVE |
Oklahoma was two games away from a national championship semifinal in the Big 12 Championship Game, but -- hhyyaarrrrr -- got boarded by that scurvy dog Mike Leach. Crimson and Cream Machine: I don't know about you but I feel like I just got kicked in the gut and had my lunch money taken. It was all right there on a platter for the Sooners to take - the Big 12 South Division title, #3 BCS ranking with potential of moving up and going to the national championship game. It was all there and the Sooners pushed away from the table refusing to partake in it.The Gaylord Memorial Gathering calls it "the most dispiriting loss" since last year's ref-influenced debacle against Oregon, which doesn't seem like a particularly long timespan to me. Sooner fans have to loathe onside kicks these days: star running back Demarco Murray is done for the year after dislocating his kneecap on OU's last-ditch onside attempt. |
| ACC |
Miami is not good against teams from Virginia, are they? A week after getting whitewashed 48-0 in the Orange Bowl's last game the 'Canes went up to Blacksburg... correction. A confused assemblage of seventh graders in Miami uniforms went up to Blacksburg and got run off 44-14. Total score: Virginia 92, Miami 14. The Miami Sports Blog: Coral Gables has been annexed to the Commonwealth.Meanwhile, Hall Of Canes is busy wearing out the F key on his keyboard: grades, not swearing. |
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11-21-2007 @ 12:51PM
VegasBigs.com said...
Vegas Winners-
WOW what a year it has been, in fact the best we have had overall since 1997.
Article about Louisiana Monroe may make you look at Texas AM with a diferent light vs Texas. Both teams have underperformed and the AM cover vs Louisiana Monroe a bit deceiving as Monroe put up lots ofoffense , just could not score in red zone...
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11-21-2007 @ 12:52PM
VegasBigs.com said...
p.s. Thats VegasBigs.com - now CrazyDaddy.net
pardon typo the egg nogg got me ..lol
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