Fan Coping Mechanisms Survey

[Zorro]

I got out my DVD and watched once more the Huskies kicking the slats out of ND last April. Good for what ails you.

 

[RadyLady]

There is always Buffalo Trace or Wild Turkey on the rocks!!!!

Good Scotch...really really good scotch. Perfect weather for it, too

 

[RadyLady]

Well, the fact is I'm seriously impressed with BY posts today {I didn't read the game thread.) Lots of reasonable commentary, compliments to the Cardinal, and very little whining (maybe I haven't gotten to that yet).

Don't bother reading the game thread. Today is much better. New day, clearer heads.

 

[winlots]

I got out my DVD and watched once more the Huskies kicking the slats out of ND last April. Good for what ails you.

ElZ - good thought..... was thinking about watching a Maya Moore tape tonight

 

[ursusminor]

Well, I was pleased to finish knitting a nice heavy shawl last night which will be very handy this coming winter. So, even during the game things were bittersweet, since going into OT meant I had enough time to finish.

I think I'm actually more excited for the season now. I don't mind blowouts, I really don't, but some of the tougher games on the schedule just got a lot more interesting.

 

[mysticmajor]

I can't wait to play them again. Revenge will be sweeeet.

 

[JRRRJ]

I'm not in denial, I just refuse to revel in the very rare agony of defeat. My coping mechanism - and thank God I follow the rarely losing Huskies - is (and no snickers, I'm a guy - a guy's guy booyah) to shop! So today I have been on the hunt for a Nikon BDC recticle 3X9 scope and mounts for a Marlin 336 from 1962 in really premo shape I found at a ... are you ready...Gun Show in 2011. Hasten to add it was a dealer sale with federal background check (how my heart pounds every time the call is made. Have they found me out yet!!) I'm cheaper than dirt, of course, but this loss hurt, so ... On line shopping has brought success! I feel better.

Anyone care to share a coping strategy they use in situations such as this?

As far as losing the game goes, I just remember the only time Geno cares about being undefeated is during tournaments.

As far as how the game was lost, I just remember that -- in an infinite universe -- everything is possible. But not all things are probable.

 

[vtcwbuff]

Rifles! you use rifles for deer! Join the silent harvest, buy a bow.

Yup - I gave up gun hunting 40 years ago and spent the next 20 years hunting with a bow. I started with a recurve, graduated to a compound and ended up with a 60 year old handmade longbow.

Now I throw apples to the deer every day off my deck. Probably a repentence thing for harvesting so many.

 

[Zorro]

Actually, JR, in an infinite universe, if a thing is possible it is also certain, no?

 

[JRRRJ]

Actually, JR, in an infinite universe, if a thing is possible it is also certain, no?

Only given infinite time or omnipresence, which are not considerations for me personally and hence, don't affect my coping.

 

[HuskyPhan]

Like Shakespeare and good opera, the best stories involve pain, revenge/redemption. Think about how good it felt beating the Irish on our way to the NC in 2013 after they had beaten us 3 times that season!! Of course I would have loved to have our Huskies run the table this year, but this loss (and any others that come-doubtful) will make our journey to the Promised Land that much sweeter!!! And how about Chong and Nurse?!?

 

[winlots]

A manhattan or two works for me.

I can't wait to play them again. Revenge will be sweeeet.

MM: I like the sound of that. But be careful what you wish for as they were talented, young, aggressive, amazingly poised, and really, really well coached this time around.

 

[vtcwbuff]

Never shot anything as an adult that wasn't paper or a beer can - 24 ozers are great for that. Would love to put my hands on a 35 Rem. some day. Love lever actions. This one is going as a Christmas present to my daughter.

My all time favorite lever actions were the Winchester M88 and the Sako Finnwolf. I owned both in .308. The Finnwolf was the smoothest lever action I ever shot. If you collect and you see one at a gun show - snap it up.

I'm surprised that no one has done a study on the therapeutic benefits of destroying beer cans.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

As far as losing the game goes, I just remember the only time Geno cares about being undefeated is during tournaments.

As far as how the game was lost, I just remember that -- in an infinite universe -- everything is possible. But not all things are probable.

For a didact you're having a difficult time with the question or you're just too deep for me.

 

[JRRRJ]

For a didact you're having a difficult time with the question or you're just too deep for me.

"everything", including bad defense, poor shooting, almost no help defense, problems with fouling, ineffective passing, allowing an opponent 49% FG, a 50% assist ratio, no characteristic run, a young opponent that doesn't fold, being out-hustled a number of times.

The odds of all these things occurring on the same occasion seemed to me to require an infinite universe.

And, that having happened once, the odds of happening again are truly miniscule. That's coping.

 

[calpedaler]

I had my class run a tittle longer in P.E. and gave them a some extra homework. I feel much better now.

 

[HoopsFan21]

I went into my garage, started my car, then crawled into the back seat with a bottle of pain killers and vodka while listening to Sarah McLaughlin. Then I realized I had to go to work the next day and went back inside.

 

[RoyDodger]

hmmmm...what did I do to cope? Nothing. I went to bed, knowing tomorrow is another day.

If we lost the championship, I might have had to make my way to the Neuhaus Chocolate shop at Grand Central Terminal.


Those chocolates are to die for, especially the "Astrids"


You see my dilemma.

And, of course, we have to keep remembering the losses to Notre Dame a couple of seasons ago; a season that ultimately resulted in a national championship. I have every confidence that Geno will work on the deficiencies that showed up in the Stanford game. I hope and predict that this game will be long forgotten by season's end.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

"everything", including bad defense, poor shooting, almost no help defense, problems with fouling, ineffective passing, allowing an opponent 49% FG, a 50% assist ratio, no characteristic run, a young opponent that doesn't fold, being out-hustled a number of times.

The odds of all these things occurring on the same occasion seemed to me to require an infinite universe.

And, that having happened once, the odds of happening again are truly miniscule. That's coping.

Okay, okay...I should have called it Fan Escapism Mechanisms. I put my coping, by your definition, in another thread: they brought their A game, we brought our C/D.

Hate to be your kid at the dinner table. Can't you let your didactic hair down and get with the thread already!!!

 

[JRRRJ]

Okay, okay...I should have called it Fan Escapism Mechanisms. I put my coping, by your definition, in another thread: they brought their A game, we brought our C/D.

Hate to be your kid at the dinner table. Can't you let your didactic hair down and get with the thread already!!!

Apparently not ;^)

But, in that vein, I went with food: surprisingly good chicken cordon bleu sandwich and excellent onion rings at the Arby's (!) in Cordelia on the way home. A full belly dulls the senses...

P.S. You would have hated my childhood family dinner table even more. Six didacts, including HuskyNan.

 

[Icebear]

My coping mechanism is to move from 18 your old Macallen to 25 year old Macallen.

 

[RadyLady]

My coping mechanism is to move from 18 your old Macallen to 25 year old Macallen.

Please pour me a glass

 

[Sonny44]

I'm not in denial, I just refuse to revel in the very rare agony of defeat. My coping mechanism - and thank God I follow the rarely losing Huskies - is (and no snickers, I'm a guy - a guy's guy booyah) to shop! So today I have been on the hunt for a Nikon BDC recticle 3X9 scope and mounts for a Marlin 336 from 1962 in really premo shape I found at a ... are you ready...Gun Show in 2011. Hasten to add it was a dealer sale with federal background check (how my heart pounds every time the call is made. Have they found me out yet!!) I'm cheaper than dirt, of course, but this loss hurt, so ... On line shopping has brought success! I feel better.

Anyone care to share a coping strategy they use in situations such as this?

Sure, deer season opens tomorrow. I'll be out in the cold freezing my brain, blocking out my current mourning.

 

[Lynx23]

I went into my garage, started my car, then crawled into the back seat with a bottle of pain killers and vodka while listening to Sarah McLaughlin. Then I realized I had to go to work the next day and went back inside.

If you're listening to Sarah McLaughlin you probably didn't need the pain killers and vodka. There seems to be a consensus that guitars and guns are good coping mechanisms for a UCONN loss. I'm trying to make sense of this...the guns and guitars I mean. There's a Warren Zevon song in there somewhere.

 

[triaddukefan]

I'm not in denial, I just refuse to revel in the very rare agony of defeat. My coping mechanism - and thank God I follow the rarely losing Huskies - is (and no snickers, I'm a guy - a guy's guy booyah) to shop! So today I have been on the hunt for a Nikon BDC recticle 3X9 scope and mounts for a Marlin 336 from 1962 in really premo shape I found at a ... are you ready...Gun Show in 2011. Hasten to add it was a dealer sale with federal background check (how my heart pounds every time the call is made. Have they found me out yet!!) I'm cheaper than dirt, of course, but this loss hurt, so ... On line shopping has brought success! I feel better.

Anyone care to share a coping strategy they use in situations such as this?

I use the same strategy coping with losses incurred by Duke WCBB.. as I do in coping with defeats incurred by females in romantic relationships. Eat, go to the gym, and shop. Since our present WCBB coach has been on the job.... I've gained probably 30 pounds....increased my bench press by 50%...... and I have a closet full of nice shirts... that I rarely wear because I can't fit in them