MSU 23, ISU 27 half

[Helcat72]

And what's even worse, is the apathy. When the football team closed the season with three straight losses, Bobcat fans were apoplectic, and BN was overflowing with comments from disappointed and/or irate fans. When the MBB team loses three in a row, there'e only a handful of Bobcat fans who even care enough to comment about it.

We care, but it appears (because of the 3 year contract extension last spring) the administration does not care, so what are we to do?

Here is my observation. I had a chance to witness our basketball team having breakfast together during Christmas vacation. My take away was there is no team comraderie on this team. No one was talking to each other, no one was even acting like they knew the people they were sitting with. As a player finished, he just got up and walked away. No goodbye, no "I am out," no head nod, nothing even remotely close to communication between anyone of this team.

I asked those that were with us, if I just read it all wrong and they all agreed it looked like a bunch of strangers who had been forced to eat at the same table.

How do you play as a team, when you can't even eat a team meal as if you like, let alone know the people you are with?

That's disturbing! All you hear about the Football team is how "they are brothers" Maybe this is the root of the problem

[BLACKnBLUEnGOLD]

And what's even worse, is the apathy. When the football team closed the season with three straight losses, Bobcat fans were apoplectic, and BN was overflowing with comments from disappointed and/or irate fans. When the MBB team loses three in a row, there'e only a handful of Bobcat fans who even care enough to comment about it.

We care, but it appears (because of the 3 year contract extension last spring) the administration does not care, so what are we to do?

Here is my observation. I had a chance to witness our basketball team having breakfast together during Christmas vacation. My take away was there is no team comraderie on this team. No one was talking to each other, no one was even acting like they knew the people they were sitting with. As a player finished, he just got up and walked away. No goodbye, no "I am out," no head nod, nothing even remotely close to communication between anyone of this team.

I asked those that were with us, if I just read it all wrong and they all agreed it looked like a bunch of strangers who had been forced to eat at the same table.

How do you play as a team, when you can't even eat a team meal as if you like, let alone know the people you are with?

That's disturbing! All you hear about the Football team is how "they are brothers" Maybe this is the root of the problem

I would guess that it's the other way around, that the problem is the root of this. By all accounts, they were at least playing like a team early in the season. Teams don't have to like each other to win, but losing often makes players like each other less.