Serious question, why do we still melt?

I don't really melt too hard. I have other diversions in my life aside from sports. I simply don't care that much anymore.

If I am going to spend $ going to games, I'd prefer a better product.

I can't imagine how folks live and die by something as puerile as college sports anymore. Maybe I'm just getting old....

I get in a down mood when we lose, but it doesn't control my life. That being said, sports fandom IS an addiction. And people like us are the worst, even if we do manage to keep perspective. Maybe we're not the type of grown men who cry after a loss or something, but we get on sites like these every day to see how recruiting is going, get practice reports, talk about what we can reasonably expect from the players and coaches, etc. When you invest emotionally in something, it matters.

I "melt" because we're in a hopeless and unwinnable situation, and even though I know we're never going to have a USC or Alabama dynasty, I have strong beliefs that it can be a lot better and that it doesn't have to be this way. Yet it is this way, and will continue to be this way for the foreseeable future.

I melt because Bielema isn't anything at ALL what we were expecting. He doesn't resemble the slightest of what we were sold from the results of his time at Wisconsin. He's an old school coach who's defensive minded, who believes in building teams from the inside out. Tough and disciplined. Where is our fricking defense? Where is the bruising run game? Why do we keep committing stupid penalties that cost us games? Why do we have a player shoplifting before a bowl game? We're going into year five and it looks like he's spent the past four years jerking off.

If this coach was anything like he was supposed to be - a safe, proven hire from a power conference with an established style and identity, as well as the work ethic of a young, hungry coach - then we would have been poised for a great year. This SEC is dogshit for the first time in nearly two decades. It's pretty clear that we're not going to ever win 10+ games every season, but you can't put up 7 wins when the SEC was as strong was it was in 2014, and then put up 7 wins when it's as weak as it is this year.

I'll happily put up with winning seven and eight games a year from this guy, because I know that's the kind of brutal schedule we have most years. It's not sustainable for a fan base to put up with 7 or 8 wins the way we're doing it. The Missouri game was an atrocity that we never should have lost. This game was a word-for-word plagiarism of it. How do you have two games like that back to back and still expect any support? How do you go 5–3 in the SEC and still end at 8–5? I guess it just slipped Bert's mind that we were supposed to play Toledo and Texas Tech on those weeks. Oops.

The guy is a joke and he's turning something we love into a joke. That's worth being pissed off about. Teams that are lesser than Arkansas have fired coaches for these kinds of results. He wouldn't have even made it this far at a greater school. I'm melting because I'm fricking terrified to play teams like Louisiana Tech.

I don't anymore. I did every year of my life but that ended with this season. Beilema managed to drain that passionate part out of me. I still watch and I still get excited.. but, now I expect a collapse.

He has yet to let me down. Looking back Toledo and Tech were our big red flags. I knew it then but chose to stick my head in the sand.

I enjoyed the US Open more this year.... pretty damn sad. I gave up on Bret awhile back. Somehow the lazy frick managed to chip away my passion as a CF fan.

As for TD, I'm more entertained on the travel board these days.

I probably won't renew my tickets next year. It's gotten to that point.

Oops I meant to upvote and did the opposite. But he has a point. I usually try to keep my frustrations to myself and troll other people, mainly because they get very upset when their team beat me and they think I'm supposed to be crying to the heavens or kowtowing to the greatness of their team.