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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 3034533, member: 40"] Incredibly frustrating year -- team absolutely imploded. Hard to believe that we won a NC the following season, given how badly things went off the rails in just about every imaginable way. I'd forgotten [or more accurately, [U]repressed[/U]] the goofiness about Konecny, Edelin, etc. given the bigger rock dysfunction that occurred that year. My lasting recollection from that sh*zpile of a season was playing our home game against Pitt. Just to frame up the context, this was at the very beginning of when they just owned us -- the front end of the Howland [and later Dixon] era, where we just didn't seem to match up well with their style of play. What makes this game memorable is that I was living in Cleveland at the time, but was in NY to go skiing with some friends at Ellicotville. Game was on Sunday, so I opportunistically snuck off to watch the game, but had to drive around to find a bar that would actually show the game on TV. After making 4 or 5 stops where they couldn't [or wouldn't] put the game on , I ended up landing at some roadside dive bar off of a two-lane highway, where the bar tender suggested he might be able to tune in the game. By now, the game is well into the first half. Bar tender proceeds to take his sweet ass time getting the game turned on, during which I'm pissed because I'm not only missing the game, but also wasting valuable time if I need to move on to yet another location to view the game. Even on a Sunday, the bar is packed with west southern tier townies, none of whom gave a rats ass about the game [typical]. And to top it all off, Pitt proceeded to curb stomp us again, setting off the dreaded February swoon that wrecked what had started out as a promising season. Year couldn't end soon enough. [/QUOTE]

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