You're right; it hurts so much because they accomplished so much.
I'm proud to be a Bobcat. I love my school. I love my team. Saturday didn't change that, tonight doesn't change that.
Go Ohio.
So does loving your school and your team dictate that you are to never speak an unpopular or even unwanted truth unless you follow the masses that do the same thing?
Are you sheep?
Do you not dare that the program becomes more and more elevated each year?
Or do you just compare our school's track record with the likes of Central Michigan, Northern Illinois etc. and feel we are "elite" compared to those programs so that's good enough to turn a blind eye to anything that we could and/or should have been or will be but wasn't or won't be on the national scale?
I can't tell if you're being deliberately obtuse or if your anger over the Christian hire is getting in the way of your reading comprehension.
Either way, there are very few people here claiming this season didn't contain plenty of disappointments. Instead, there's just dozens of people who completely disagree with you regarding how OU can take that next step, and what it fundamentally means to do so. You think failing to follow up a Sweet 16 run with another Sweet 16 run is a monumental failure and indicates that we have regressed; others recognize--correctly, I should add--that taking the next step is a long, slow process that requires organizational culture change and financial commitment. Losing to Akron 3 times this year doesn't negate the strides that have been made towards those ends, nor do your overly simplistic views on Christian's coaching acumen.