Sycamore Pride Anonymous

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Hi, my name's Matt and I'm a Sycamore Pride-a-holic.

I've been a junkie since 2007. When I wake up in the morning, before I go to bed, and all points in between, I'm checking out sycamorepride.com. It's hard for me to not visit the site, because what if there's men's basketball news that happened in the past 10 minutes? I need to know.

I thought I was getting better and could almost call myself a recovering addict in 2010. The team had just finished their appearance in the CBI and an entire off-season was ahead of them. "OK," I thought, "I can finally call it quits, time to end this thing on a high note." But then McKenna leaves for Oregon and all bets were off, WHO WOULD BE THE NEW HEAD COACH?!?!?! I knew where I could turn for updates. And SP reported on Lansing well before the TribStar. Forgive me Todd Golden.

Since then, things have just gotten worse. In 2011, I got my first smartphone. All that time I used to have to myself, contemplating the team while off-line, was now being spent on SP with the site in the palm of my hand. Also in 2011, State went to the NCAA tourney. That was a low point. I set the internet record for being on the same site, 24-7, for three weeks straight from the moment that ISU beat MSU in the MVC tourney to the moment the clock hit 00:00 in their game against Syracuse.

So here it is, 2013, and all the Sycamores have done is defeated the likes of Ole Miss and Miami, and won their first MVC game to bring their RPI down to 32 with an SOS of 20. The future is bleak for my addiction. God help me. God help us all.

 

[SycamoreStateofMind]

Hi my name is James and I'm a Sycamore Pride-a-holic.

I've been a junkie since December 2008. I first came to SP under a private and diverting name, "Morgan". At the time, I was not linked to that name in any form in "real life". Now forum members past and present remind me of my once private identity. I had a great run as "Morgan", under that name I created mass hate and broke the Jake Kelly transfer rumor to the world, among other things. Months later I was publicly critical (not me) of the Men's Cross Country team and how they had been performing. One of the seniors on that team, my friend and former teammate read the forum and expressed his displeasure with me for my comments. Shortly after that I had Jason delete my account - I then first realized that my addiction might be negatively effecting other people.

I was off Sycamore Pride for a month or so when I started posting under a new and this time more public identity, SycamoreStateofMind or "SSOM" to most. This time I set my profile with a personal picture of myself and I made my Sycamore Pride addiction known to the world. I called the IT department at work and gave them the url www.sycamorepride.com, www.sycamorehoops.com and www.sycamorerunner.com and asked them to all be blocked organization wide - it was a personal measure put in place to A. keep my job and B. fight my addiction.

The Iphone and TapTalk apps have made the site more accessible to me during regular business hours although most of the time I'm able to resist the urge. I still post on sycamorepride five times a day on average. Some of my closest friends make fun of me for my addiction to Sycamore Pride and the amount of time I spend on the forum.

I'm thankful for my addiction to Sycamore Pride - I wouldn't have it any other way. Thanks to Jason for making it all possible. I hope you have a good attorney as one day this could blow up in your face and I know you have a family to support. Good thread! Roll Timber!