COLUMN: The Rabbit Hole of the Moral Victory

[ucf1]

What is a moral victory?​

According to Google, it is “a defeat that can be interpreted as a victory on moral terms, for example, because the defeated party defended their principles.”

In other words, it’s finding the silver lining in a loss and juicing it up exponentially. The UCF Knights football program has had a long history with the moral victory.

It really got going back in 1997, when the then UCF Golden Knights were still an independent fledgling program in Division I-A (now FBS) and opened the season with three road games: at Ole Miss, at South Carolina, and at 6th-ranked Nebraska. UCF held their own each time.

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[muckdawg24]

I think in the past it was good to hang your hat on a moral victory because we weren't in the club. Now we are so it's win or lose baby! Still hoping for a 6-6 finish.

 

[OtterKnight]

I disagree with the premise of the article, that people care about moral victories and that they're acting like this was one.

Rather than a moral victory, this loss is more like "maybe we aren't as bad as we feared and the team hasn't quit."

A game to build from and something to give the fanbase some hope that it might not be so bad is not the same thing as a moral victory.

It's also not early in the season where we don't know what we might be made of yet. There's no comparison to 97.

After 3 L's in a row its better than the alternative to not have been beaten badly.

Why can't it just be that?

 

[AuburnLegacy_1]

Churches win moral victories; football teams do not. You are what your record says you are.

 

[The Knightman Cometh]

Yeah I care 0 for moral victories and I don't think it's great for the team to continously claim moral victories. At some point it just makes the team soft and okay with losing because "at least we were close" - Screw that win or win not, there is no moral victory

 

[major.tom.foolery]

I am sick and tired of moral victories. Can we get some immoral and/or amoral ones for a change?

 

[Guinness_Knight]

We are no longer at the “moral victory” stage as a program. Those days are in the past.

 

[LateKnight]

Hop on the Gus Bus if you are in to moral victories. GOL would puke at the thought. Good god, I never thought I would ever want to see a GOL offense again, but a lot better than the midget league offense Gus runs.

 

[OtterKnight]

I don't think Gus is into moral victories either. Nobody is.