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Post by Nickybojelais on Oct 2, 2015 20:13:32 GMT -5
The Belgian national football team seem to get a huge amount of hype. For a number of years now they have been a lot of people's teams to watch going into major tournaments.
Yet they failed to qualify for World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012. Failed to impress at last years World Cup before exiting at the Quarter Final stage, and are currently even trailing the one man team of Wales in the qualifying stages for Euro 2016.
I think Belgium get overhyped purely because of the amount of players they have who play for teams in the overhyped Premier League!
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Post by S-Chrome on Oct 2, 2015 20:49:30 GMT -5
The 2006 New York Yankees. Particularly fire-breathing lineup, damn good bench, passable pitching staff. Many Yankees like myself thought after Boston Massacre '06, the Yanks would make an easy run to the World Series, where they would meet and beat the Mets like usual. However, one offensive slump and a pine-tar smudged left hamd and arm of Kenny Rogers later, The Bombers found themselves out on their asses again.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Oct 3, 2015 15:03:27 GMT -5
The University of Georgia: every season. Honorable mention: Notre Dame 2012-13. They struggled against some mediocre teams(and should have lost to Pitt) but for some reason people still pretended like they were world beaters. Enter Alabama. Manti Te'o meet Eddie Lacey. Pac-12 Champions Stanford = Mediocre 10-3 Oklahoma in Norman = Mediocre Bama was a bad match up simply because they had more energy going in and if you believe me, Brian Kelly was more focused on going to the NFL than that game. That team also had 0 hype going into the season. By your logic, 2011 LSU and 2009 Texas fall under the same criteria. That being said: 2012 USC was massively overhyped. But I can see why. Barkley was a Top 5 QB in a lot of people's minds, they had a bomb receiver core and it was expected for them to compete defensively. They reminded me of a Charlie Weis team, an amazing offense with no defense or sense of a running game. That Sun Bowl loss to GT summed up that team perfectly.
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Post by Unocal 76 on Oct 3, 2015 16:35:25 GMT -5
In college football, teams that don't even come close to a decent record fall on this list.
I mean, at least ND made the final game. USC couldn't even do better than the Sun Bowl that year.
Plus, I blame K-State/Oregon for capitulating. If any of those teams don't screw up, ND might match up better with them then they did Bama.
Hell, if Georgia held on in that SEC-CG, who knows?
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Post by unc40 on Oct 7, 2015 17:09:47 GMT -5
The 1987 Mets were thought to be world beaters after winning the World Series but fell flat early in the season. They did come back and gave the Cardinals a scare but ran out of steam.
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I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Oct 16, 2015 2:48:54 GMT -5
Too soon to say the 300 million dollar Dodgers?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2015 8:19:27 GMT -5
Too soon to say the 300 million dollar Dodgers? Nope. For the past few years, the Dodgers have been one of the bigger disappointments in baseball. Much like the Capitals in the NHL, no matter how the team looks, they can't get themselves to the championship.
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Post by Sam Punk on Oct 16, 2015 11:48:56 GMT -5
Toronto Maple Leafs 1968-.
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Post by warriorthug4edge on Oct 16, 2015 13:52:12 GMT -5
2009 Ole Miss--Thought by many to be a team on the rise after going 9-4 with a big win over the Michael Crabtree Texas Tech team, and returning several key members of the team, including quarterback Jevan Snead. Instead, struggles opening day with a pitiful Memphis team, rolls over and plays dead against South Carolina on a Thursday night that almost every Ole Miss fan knew was going to happen (made more galling when OL Bradley Sowell said something to the effect that he was glad they lost because it took the pressure off). Gets crushed by a damn good Alabama team at home, then gets upset by a mediocre Auburn team in Jordan-Hare. Follows up with a big win over Tennessee, then a win over LSU when Les Miles totally botches the end of the game (sound familiar?) All Ole Miss had to do at that point was beat a BAD Mississippi State team in Starkville to clinch a bid to the Capital One Bowl. Instead, State runs zone read on almost literally every play, and Ole Miss looks like they had never seen it in their lives. MSU 41, Ole Miss 27. Team ends up going to the Cotton Bowl against Dez Bryant-less Oklahoma State and wins 21-7 in one of the ugliest games imaginable. Within 2 years, Ole Miss is 2-10 and Houston Nutt is fired amidst the wreckage and burning pit that was Ole Miss football.
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