USC Morning Buzz: Thrill Of Victory And Agony Of Defeat

BASSETTIt’s fine margins in sports whether it’s the Women’s World Cup or the USC-Arizona State game. Both were decided in the final seconds and produced heartbreak for the losers and celebrations for the winners.

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18 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Thrill Of Victory And Agony Of Defeat

  1. I was gonna say that our day will come when we will have lucky fortune at the end of games. However we actually had some good fortune at the end of the Stanford and Arizona games last season. Those games could have gone the opposite way as the ASU and Utah games went against us last season at the last min.

    • This. I read that post and thought, a chance to compete as the highest level in soccer (or the Olympics) comes once every four years. A game result in the middle of a regular season is often balanced out by another game. USC was lucky at the end of Stanford and Arizona, unlucky versus Utah and ASU.

      • Same applies to the other four foes i.e. Stanford and AZ unlucky and AZ St. and UT lucky – we all make our own luck – it’s called being prepared and focused.

        • My point is that over a regular season, luck tends to balance itself out and a team 99% of the time no better or worse than it’s record.

          When you look back a USC, their record, at 8-4, is what they deserved. Despite all the questionable coaching moves and Sark and Wilcox bashing, it seems that USC’s defense was not stout enough to hold leads against high-powered offenses. If they went 10-2 I would argue they were not as good as their record, and if they went 6-6 I would argue that they were not as bad as the record.

          • I agree – considering the youth on the line it’s amazing and they’ll bring that – last year’s failures to this year’s matchups especially as the game hangs in the balance.

            As one of the many ‘experts’ noted – if USC is 6 – 0 the evening of the 17th October 2015 @ 9:00 pm PDT – it’s off to the races….

  2. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

    Teddy Roosevelt

    • are you joking?? Comparing Teddy Roosvelt to the wolfman???

      The Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill was child’s play compared to the fury of wolfman charging into Five Gueys at lunch time!!

      #HungryLikeTheWolf

      • “It is not the critic who counts”

        Sounds like Teddy was talking about the cadre.

  3. There’s heartbreak and celebrations for gamblers, too. Right, Scott?

  4. With all do respect to the Wolfman, I don’t think the two are very comparable. England loss was for chance at the finals in a tournament that happens only once every 4 years. southern cal loss to Arizona was sad but was only for the difference between playing in the holiday bowl or the kraft fight hunger bowl or what ever they call it these days!

    • For once, we agree. …a much better comparison would have been the ending of the UCLA -Utah game last year ….who can forget Utah kicking a FG with 34 seconds left, then UCLA missing not one, but two field goals with no time remaining. …which cost the Bruins the game and an opportunity to play in the Pac -12 Championship game against Oregon. …now THAT was more similar to an own goal defeat. ..

      • thanks for reminding me…the game cost the UCLA BRUINS……..BTW….Which LOSES cost
        U
        STUPID
        CLOWNS
        the opportunity?….I mean…you knuckleheads were in it at the beginning of the season!
        NO EXCUSES TO FIT UNG!

    • As a woman soccer player, that was her biggest game and will unfortunately define her career. The SC game was a team breakdown with shared pain, and as you said Ted, a regular season game.

  5. I wonder if Hayes Pullard is still waiting on the field for that ball to come down at the end of the ASU game…

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