re: We need to get this Mizzou fan to start posting on the SECRant...

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Is that what you call a 120-68 Hogs win? History was made, you're right about that...lol

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Large margin, but I'd feel a lot worse about it if we hadn't gone on from that game to go 14-0 in the Big Eight, 28-4 overall, ranked #3 in the final polls and a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament....so we made out OK. In fact, one of our best players on that team was a junior college walkon who was sitting out first semester waiting for transcripts and looking for a team, and he saw that beatdown you mention and thought "hey, that Mizzou team looks like it could use some help" and actually chose us and became one of our top scorers. So thanks for that.

And I'd feel a lot worse if just two short years prior in 1992, Mizzou hadn't won its final game in Barn Hill Arena, knocking off your ballyhooed Mayberry/Miller/Day team in their senior season.

And I'd feel a lot worse if our coach in the game you mention, Norm Stewart, hadn't forged an all-time winning record in Barn Hill Arena over several years.

And I'd feel a lot worse if the game you mention wasn't the only thing allowing Arkansas to barely cling to a 19-18 all-time lead in what is otherwise a dead heat, hotly contested series.

And to give credit where its due, I'd feel a lot worse if that team that administered that beating to us weren't Nolan Richardson's lone national championship team. If you're going to suffer your worst defeat, at least do it to a national champ. In some ways that almost makes sense.

So no. That game bothered me for one night, but then we went on a magic carpet ride of a season thereafter and I never really felt bad about it since.