I'm bored at work so went to the Memphis board and saw their main thread during the championship thread. Pretty entertaining https://csnbbs.com/thread-864736.html
Take-aways: They hated hearing about Milton's injury on TV during their 14-0 run (a possible career-ending injury that happened only a week prior to this game), they think UCF fans are whinny/classless, they started blaming the refs as early as the 2nd quarter even when they had a substantial lead, and generally most of them chalked this up to the refs winning this for us...only a few our their fans had our back. Kind of an immature bunch in my opinion.
Pre-game:
"Tigers are going to win by 10+."
"So how much will a Tigers win cost each AAC team?"
"Won't cost a dime. UCF is going to the Group of Five bowl slot regardless of what happens. IMO."
"The highest ranked G5 Champion gets the access slot. If we beat UCF they will not be a champion."
"Just got horrible news...The BEAR picked FCU to win today"
"They are a cocky bunch down there...damn"
"Do you know why there were no Knights in the tropical climates? The Tigers ate them."
"If this game is close in the 4th quarter, I expect the refs to get involved. AAC can't have the Tigers win today."
1st Quarter:
"That is a good start"
"Well, it didn't take long for darrell henderson to score. 2nd touch and he's gone."
"WTF.....stupid ass television can't even show it"
"That is called a punch in the mouth to start the game off. We are ready to play ball!!"
"What The F...Glad as heck at the score, pissed off at the ABC / ESPN network - this game deserves better...most of the country completely missed 14-0"
"Alabama fans don't have to deal with this crap. This is exactly why i refuse to watch the p5 and espn and all sports networks unless they are showing my tigers or grizz."
"Maybe Cfu won’t recover"
"UCF booing when a guy of ours goes down... no class"
"UCF fans are complete trash. I would expect nothing less. F them."
"UCF fans so classy. They lose their QB to injury and demand the world give them absolute sympathy. Then they boo a Memphis kid hurt on the field."
"It was a bad injury and sucks for them. But sooner or later they need to realize he is not the first kid to ever be hurt. Sorry, just worn out by this. He got hurt in a football game. He did not die in Afghanistan."
"I'm mckenzie'd out...I'll tell you that"
"Mom being interviewed...Good lord. Never seen this much drama over an injury."
"This x100. He had a good run, but his time is over. How about that Memphis offense? Talk about how we are skull dragging the UCF defense right now"
"Fumble and recovered by Memphis!"
"Keep your foot on their throat Tigers. No mercy!"
2nd Quarter:
"These refs are awful"
"We are now playing the refs too"
"Norvell does not play well with a lead. He gets way too conservative."
"F ucf, Can't f$&@ing stand em"
"I can't believe they let their coach walk out onto the field and pump up the crowd."
"It's not even close, officials have taken this game over"
"Woohoo!"
"The refs may be against us, but Karma seems to be on our side."
"Norvell saying here comes Henderson and there is nothing you can do about it. I love it."
"Extremely obvious that these officials have been given their marching orders to keep this one close"
"No doubt about it. it will be a rough 2nd half."
"Norvell heavily out coaching Heupel. Heupel is also kind of fat."
"Refs trying to give the appearance that they are being fair with a meaningless holding call there. I am not fooled."
"Alright, let's keep ramming it down their throats in the 2nd half and take a deep shot every once in a while to keep them honest. #GTG"
"And yes, central trolls reading this for entertainment, we know it does not help losing a starting QB. We literally lost a basketball player last week. Hoping the kid gets better but lord."
3rd Quarter:
"The refs will be out in force in the 2nd half. The AAC will have them doubling their effort."
"Adjustment will be made by UCF hope we are ready. It is hard to be a Memphis fan."
"These refs will cost us this game. Just watch. It's going to happen. Prepare yourself."
"I hate our defense. It is tough being a Memphis fan."
"Refs will not cost us this game. It will come down to us scoring more than them"
"The conference wants UCF to win and the refs have been instructed accordingly"
"Every one of us needs to call the AAC offices."
"They brought Milton's torso to the game."
"I'd almost forgot about Miltons death."
"What a piece of crap is Norvell!? Jesus f###"
"Should have gone for it on 4th down. UCF will take the lead now on this possession."
"Never be Power 6 with this type of corrupt officiating."
"Corrupt to the core. 2 years in a row."
"If you are going to cheat you definitely don't let a team get up by 17 points. Did the refs replace the UCF defensive line as well. Because they seem to be playing better"
"Ucf's ROOKIE freshman qb has dominated his matchup with brady white. He has shown a lot more skill passing the ball downfield too. Of course it helps that chris ball has decided to not show him much of a pass rush. Ucf deserves this game, and this is not about officials."
4th Quarter:
"Make a GDAMN tackle."
"Good job blowing the lead chris ball defense. I've never hated a memphis coach so much in my life."
"I think the refs have fulfilled their responsibility at this point."
"Does our QB have a broken right arm?"
"Yep that’s it. Game over folks. The look on Novell’s face. He knows he just lost the game."
"Relax guys. We still very much in the game"
"Plenty of time"
"Can we have a miracle, just once, against this team?"
"I am afraid the odds are stacked against in this one. The 3 picked up flags were critical. But that’s football. Fair or not."
"I didn't think it was possible to have over 400 yds rushing and be losing in the 4th quarter."
"Did you see those er, fans, flipping off our kids. Win streak wasted on such a classless low rent bunch."
"This isn't necessarily horrible coaching, we are getting WHIPPED on both sides of the ball. UCF players manned up and swung at us and we are folding. Their guys are running thru tackles."
"THIS...They are whipping us and we are not responding"
"Game ain't over yet."
"Yes game is over"
"Absolutely no pressure. That QB is going into statue mode and just waiting for someone to break open..."
"Glad y'all felt the need to neg rep me. Crybabies. UCF was the better team this half. Im a huge tiger fan but Im watching this game objectively"
"Had potential to be a great day and then both teams blow it."
"Always second best"
"Everybody's backup QB is better than our starter"
"refs sucked the first half. tigers sucked even more in the second. pitiful effort in the second half. disappointing."
"Blame the refs all you want. this second half is an embarrassment. Offense and defense."
"I think UCF has now scored a sufficient number of points to make the refs' contribution irrelevant. If we don't make some changes on D next year and have White improve a ton, then we'll be lucky to do as well as this year. Good thing we had those cupcakes at the beginning of the season."
"I haven't been this disappointed in a tiger team in a long time. played their ass off the first half and then just looked like they quit in the second half."
Post Game:
"i can't believe we lost to this f'ing team again."
What a colossal ****** day for Memphis sports. Both teams CHOKE."
"I only hope UCF wins their meaningless bowl game and finishes undefeated again. They'll get another fake trophy for being "Life Champions" and the rest of America will continuing laughing at little ole UCF. At least last year they had the compelling story of that one-handed guy."
"One of the worst coached and played halfs of ball I've ever seen. Norvell brought us here and I thank him for that but he is a terrible coach in some regards. We should NOT have been embarrassed like this."
"Some of yawl need to get a life. Good grief ..........UCF were the returning Champions & they played like it."
"They refs didn’t beat us, UCF beat us and we beat ourselves. You don’t score 3 in a half and cry about the refs, bad look. We got outplayed when it mattered, period. That’s on the players AND the coaches."
Take-aways: They hated hearing about Milton's injury on TV during their 14-0 run (a possible career-ending injury that happened only a week prior to this game), they think UCF fans are whinny/classless, they started blaming the refs as early as the 2nd quarter even when they had a substantial lead, and generally most of them chalked this up to the refs winning this for us...only a few our their fans had our back. Kind of an immature bunch in my opinion.
Pre-game:
"Tigers are going to win by 10+."
"So how much will a Tigers win cost each AAC team?"
"Won't cost a dime. UCF is going to the Group of Five bowl slot regardless of what happens. IMO."
"The highest ranked G5 Champion gets the access slot. If we beat UCF they will not be a champion."
"Just got horrible news...The BEAR picked FCU to win today"
"They are a cocky bunch down there...damn"
"Do you know why there were no Knights in the tropical climates? The Tigers ate them."
"If this game is close in the 4th quarter, I expect the refs to get involved. AAC can't have the Tigers win today."
1st Quarter:
"That is a good start"
"Well, it didn't take long for darrell henderson to score. 2nd touch and he's gone."
"WTF.....stupid ass television can't even show it"
"That is called a punch in the mouth to start the game off. We are ready to play ball!!"
"What The F...Glad as heck at the score, pissed off at the ABC / ESPN network - this game deserves better...most of the country completely missed 14-0"
"Alabama fans don't have to deal with this crap. This is exactly why i refuse to watch the p5 and espn and all sports networks unless they are showing my tigers or grizz."
"Maybe Cfu won’t recover"
"UCF booing when a guy of ours goes down... no class"
"UCF fans are complete trash. I would expect nothing less. F them."
"UCF fans so classy. They lose their QB to injury and demand the world give them absolute sympathy. Then they boo a Memphis kid hurt on the field."
"It was a bad injury and sucks for them. But sooner or later they need to realize he is not the first kid to ever be hurt. Sorry, just worn out by this. He got hurt in a football game. He did not die in Afghanistan."
"I'm mckenzie'd out...I'll tell you that"
"Mom being interviewed...Good lord. Never seen this much drama over an injury."
"This x100. He had a good run, but his time is over. How about that Memphis offense? Talk about how we are skull dragging the UCF defense right now"
"Fumble and recovered by Memphis!"
"Keep your foot on their throat Tigers. No mercy!"
2nd Quarter:
"These refs are awful"
"We are now playing the refs too"
"Norvell does not play well with a lead. He gets way too conservative."
"F ucf, Can't f$&@ing stand em"
"I can't believe they let their coach walk out onto the field and pump up the crowd."
"It's not even close, officials have taken this game over"
"Woohoo!"
"The refs may be against us, but Karma seems to be on our side."
"Norvell saying here comes Henderson and there is nothing you can do about it. I love it."
"Extremely obvious that these officials have been given their marching orders to keep this one close"
"No doubt about it. it will be a rough 2nd half."
"Norvell heavily out coaching Heupel. Heupel is also kind of fat."
"Refs trying to give the appearance that they are being fair with a meaningless holding call there. I am not fooled."
"Alright, let's keep ramming it down their throats in the 2nd half and take a deep shot every once in a while to keep them honest. #GTG"
"And yes, central trolls reading this for entertainment, we know it does not help losing a starting QB. We literally lost a basketball player last week. Hoping the kid gets better but lord."
3rd Quarter:
"The refs will be out in force in the 2nd half. The AAC will have them doubling their effort."
"Adjustment will be made by UCF hope we are ready. It is hard to be a Memphis fan."
"These refs will cost us this game. Just watch. It's going to happen. Prepare yourself."
"I hate our defense. It is tough being a Memphis fan."
"Refs will not cost us this game. It will come down to us scoring more than them"
"The conference wants UCF to win and the refs have been instructed accordingly"
"Every one of us needs to call the AAC offices."
"They brought Milton's torso to the game."
"I'd almost forgot about Miltons death."
"What a piece of crap is Norvell!? Jesus f###"
"Should have gone for it on 4th down. UCF will take the lead now on this possession."
"Never be Power 6 with this type of corrupt officiating."
"Corrupt to the core. 2 years in a row."
"If you are going to cheat you definitely don't let a team get up by 17 points. Did the refs replace the UCF defensive line as well. Because they seem to be playing better"
"Ucf's ROOKIE freshman qb has dominated his matchup with brady white. He has shown a lot more skill passing the ball downfield too. Of course it helps that chris ball has decided to not show him much of a pass rush. Ucf deserves this game, and this is not about officials."
4th Quarter:
"Make a GDAMN tackle."
"Good job blowing the lead chris ball defense. I've never hated a memphis coach so much in my life."
"I think the refs have fulfilled their responsibility at this point."
"Does our QB have a broken right arm?"
"Yep that’s it. Game over folks. The look on Novell’s face. He knows he just lost the game."
"Relax guys. We still very much in the game"
"Plenty of time"
"Can we have a miracle, just once, against this team?"
"I am afraid the odds are stacked against in this one. The 3 picked up flags were critical. But that’s football. Fair or not."
"I didn't think it was possible to have over 400 yds rushing and be losing in the 4th quarter."
"Did you see those er, fans, flipping off our kids. Win streak wasted on such a classless low rent bunch."
"This isn't necessarily horrible coaching, we are getting WHIPPED on both sides of the ball. UCF players manned up and swung at us and we are folding. Their guys are running thru tackles."
"THIS...They are whipping us and we are not responding"
"Game ain't over yet."
"Yes game is over"
"Absolutely no pressure. That QB is going into statue mode and just waiting for someone to break open..."
"Glad y'all felt the need to neg rep me. Crybabies. UCF was the better team this half. Im a huge tiger fan but Im watching this game objectively"
"Had potential to be a great day and then both teams blow it."
"Always second best"
"Everybody's backup QB is better than our starter"
"refs sucked the first half. tigers sucked even more in the second. pitiful effort in the second half. disappointing."
"Blame the refs all you want. this second half is an embarrassment. Offense and defense."
"I think UCF has now scored a sufficient number of points to make the refs' contribution irrelevant. If we don't make some changes on D next year and have White improve a ton, then we'll be lucky to do as well as this year. Good thing we had those cupcakes at the beginning of the season."
"I haven't been this disappointed in a tiger team in a long time. played their ass off the first half and then just looked like they quit in the second half."
Post Game:
"i can't believe we lost to this f'ing team again."
What a colossal ****** day for Memphis sports. Both teams CHOKE."
"I only hope UCF wins their meaningless bowl game and finishes undefeated again. They'll get another fake trophy for being "Life Champions" and the rest of America will continuing laughing at little ole UCF. At least last year they had the compelling story of that one-handed guy."
"One of the worst coached and played halfs of ball I've ever seen. Norvell brought us here and I thank him for that but he is a terrible coach in some regards. We should NOT have been embarrassed like this."
"Some of yawl need to get a life. Good grief ..........UCF were the returning Champions & they played like it."
"They refs didn’t beat us, UCF beat us and we beat ourselves. You don’t score 3 in a half and cry about the refs, bad look. We got outplayed when it mattered, period. That’s on the players AND the coaches."
