basketball vs. football

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jakez4ut

jakez4ut

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You know, i'm a huge UT fan all the way around, but Football has alwasy taken the cake with me....no knock on Bball, just never been my cup of tea.

Having said that, watching the 2nd half of that TX game, or any close game UT has played in Bball....has always stressed me out more than anything....

i don't know why...maybe it's the eb and flow of a football game, and the strategy that goes on in trying to establishing certain things etc....

And not that the same isn't true for Bball, i probably just don't have quite the understanding of the "little things" in Bball, like i do in Football...

Either way, when TX got it down to 12 or 14 w/about 4 minutes to go...i had to change the channel....!!!! it was ridiculous...i coulnd't watch!! Not that i was upset, but because it was like every possesion if they didn't score or get the rebound on D, it was crazy....

anyway, just wondering if anyone esle feels that way...
 
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Football is more stressful. Various reasons: (1) 2 losses may eliminate your team from the conference title, (2) more than one loss could keep your team from playing for the National Championship, (3) higher expecations based on pre-season picks, (4) tough non-conference schedule (at times).
 
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B-ball games do seem more capable of going back and forth in, literally, fractions of a second. There can be four or five lead changes in the last 90 seconds. Football can come down to the last play, but its usually more deliberate -- not always so, but even in close games it is usually the case that there is more time to stop, look, and listen.

The b-ball games where it will really get you on the edge of your seat are in the tournament. Buzzer-beaters will cause hearts to stop coast to coast! And its playoffs!! One loss and you are out! Its upsets, baby!!!!

 
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Football, definitely, for me. I watch basketball but don't get into it like football. And college football isn't as stressful to me as NFL. I guess it's because there are so many NFL teams I hate with a passion and they always seem to beat up on the teams I follow, usually in the last two minutes. Also, my teams invariably get screwed by the zebras. I'd love to have just one of my teams win a challenge on a crummy call. And also, the NFL has some A-holes for announcers and color men. Especially that Idiot that works with Joe Theisman on the ESPN Sunday night games. I'd enjoy stuffing a sock in his mouth. I think his name's MIke Patrick.
 
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I too have a problem sitting through a basketball game. I would never, ever turn off a TX football game unless they were getting completely blown out. Even in games that are close in basketball, I have a hard time sitting through them. (Of course, I didn't have to worry about that one on Saturday.)

For me, I guess, it's the number of mistakes in a short period of time combined with the influence the ref's have in the game. In football, the team may have a hold here and a dropped pass there, but it's rarely constant. In basketball, especially in close games, players take bad shots, turn the ball over, or the ref makes phantom calls almost every other trip down the floor. There's also the luck factor that seems to be more prominent in basketball. When TX loses a close basketball game, those things haunt my memory.

In football, you can watch an entire quarter and not see a blatant screwup or bad call from the ref.

 
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This is a great question. Both are pretty stressful for many totally different reasons. I agree with TennFan on football because one or two losses can cost you the entire season. It's also a lot easier to come back from big deficients in hoops than football.
 
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Basketball is the more enjoyable for me because it's my favorite sport....I get stressed when it's close, I have a ball when it's like it was in Austin Saturday...
 
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For most UT fans FB is most stessful as expections in mens BB has historically been low. At Kentucky or Duke I would expect the opposite.
 
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(RoseBowlChamps @ Dec 19 said:
I too have a problem sitting through a basketball game. I would never, ever turn off a TX football game unless they were getting completely blown out. Even in games that are close in basketball, I have a hard time sitting through them. (Of course, I didn't have to worry about that one on Saturday.)

For me, I guess, it's the number of mistakes in a short period of time combined with the influence the ref's have in the game. In football, the team may have a hold here and a dropped pass there, but it's rarely constant. In basketball, especially in close games, players take bad shots, turn the ball over, or the ref makes phantom calls almost every other trip down the floor. There's also the luck factor that seems to be more prominent in basketball. When TX loses a close basketball game, those things haunt my memory.

In football, you can watch an entire quarter and not see a blatant screwup or bad call from the ref.
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Ah yes, the refs...that does it for me too...they have such a bigger impact on the game than in football, not that they don't in football at all, but the one thing i do know aobut Bball is one of the "little things" is trying to figure out how the refs are going to call the game early and adjust to that to stay out of foul trouble...plus the possession arrow...what a stupid rule. the Bball experts on here...what's your opinion of the possession arrow? I don't like it.
 
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(RoseBowlChamps @ Dec 19 said:
I too have a problem sitting through a basketball game. I would never, ever turn off a TX football game unless they were getting completely blown out. Even in games that are close in basketball, I have a hard time sitting through them. (Of course, I didn't have to worry about that one on Saturday.)

For me, I guess, it's the number of mistakes in a short period of time combined with the influence the ref's have in the game. In football, the team may have a hold here and a dropped pass there, but it's rarely constant. In basketball, especially in close games, players take bad shots, turn the ball over, or the ref makes phantom calls almost every other trip down the floor. There's also the luck factor that seems to be more prominent in basketball. When TX loses a close basketball game, those things haunt my memory.

In football, you can watch an entire quarter and not see a blatant screwup or bad call from the ref.
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Ah yes, the refs...that does it for me too...they have such a bigger impact on the game than in football, not that they don't in football at all, but the one thing i do know aobut Bball is one of the "little things" is trying to figure out how the refs are going to call the game early and adjust to that to stay out of foul trouble...plus the possession arrow...what a stupid rule. the Bball experts on here...what's your opinion of the possession arrow? I don't like it.
 
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I hate the possession arrow. Too many times it hurts a guy that just made a great defensive play. The jump ball at the free-throw line seems more fair. I get tired of seeing them tie it up and then all the players have to look at the scorers table to find out whose ball it is.
 
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I agree. What is so hard about having a jump ball? I have never really understood why they went to the alternate possession rule.
 
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(jakez4ut @ Dec 20 said:
...plus the possession arrow...what a stupid rule. the Bball experts on here...what's your opinion of the possession arrow? I don't like it.
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I don't mind the possesion arrow...it would be stupid to turnover possesion every time there was a tie-up situation....It switches the arrow back in your favor if you don't get the ball....I think it's fine.
 
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Plus...having a jump-ball every time is retarted too...because it's between the two players that were grabbing at the ball....makes for some bad jump balls between big guys and small guards
 
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I don't know...i remember watching the Miss. St./KY game last year, and the MSU defender made a great Defensive play, and caused the equivalence of a fumble in football, but beacuse the possesion arrow as in KY's favor, they got the ball??? i mean, where's the justice in that? they MSU guy makes a key play late in the game, supposedly to keep or change possesion (MSU was down by single digits at the time), and it just goes against them....

quite unfair i think. :bad:
 
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