Better Moral Victory?

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If I might point out, it was Damn Yankees who invented moral victory, if we are referencing Bunker Hill.

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Brian McCat said:
If I might point out, it was Damn Yankees who invented moral victory, if we are referencing Bunker Hill.

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haha well I would say you are 100% correct since we where all considered damn yankees back then.

as for the battle of Bunker hill, we lost the battle but gained confidence that we could actually fight and beat the greatest army in the world at that time. The British on the other hand won the battle but suffered huge losses so many in fact that it was considered a Pyrrhic victory for them.

George Washington went on to use Bunker hill as an example too urge the continental congress to keep funding our fledgling army and as a recruiting tool to recruit. So a lost battle actually increased morale and our ability to fight, hence it was known as a morale victory.
I can guess that maybe the term moral victory is either a bastardization of the correct term or one of those VN pocket presents :)

what ever you want to call it, it most certainly does exist.
 
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vols4evah said:
haha well I would say you are 100% correct since we where all considered damn yankees back then.

as for the battle of Bunker hill, we lost the battle but gained confidence that we could actually fight and beat the greatest army in the world at that time. The British on the other hand won the battle but suffered huge losses so many in fact that it was considered a Pyrrhic victory for them.

George Washington went on to use Bunker hill as an example too urge the continental congress to keep funding our fledgling army and as a recruiting tool to recruit. So a lost battle actually increased morale and our ability to fight, hence it was known as a morale victory.
I can guess that maybe the term moral victory is either a bastardization of the correct term or one of those VN pocket presents :)

what ever you want to call it, it most certainly does exist.
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It helped that they wore those bright red coats and stood in nice organized lines as well :)
 
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A moral victory is not something you can measure from the outside.

It is an intangible feeling dealt with on an individual level.

ex. Worley may have felt a moral victory from the OU game, where Croom probably did not. *But like I said earlier, that would all be speculation.
 
#11
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Vandy. If we didn't throw the pic 6 at the end of the game it'd be closer
 
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First of all, Oklahoma is a better, more complete football team than South Carolina. Second, Vandy played the Chicken Nation at home; we played Oklahoma on the road. Third, without the benefit of two kickoff returns for touchdowns, Vandy would not have made that a competitive game.
 
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I get what you're saying, and was half-joking.

That said, I've had my fill of moral victories. They show up in the wrong side of the win-loss column.

vols4evah said:
haha well I would say you are 100% correct since we where all considered damn yankees back then.

as for the battle of Bunker hill, we lost the battle but gained confidence that we could actually fight and beat the greatest army in the world at that time. The British on the other hand won the battle but suffered huge losses so many in fact that it was considered a Pyrrhic victory for them.

George Washington went on to use Bunker hill as an example too urge the continental congress to keep funding our fledgling army and as a recruiting tool to recruit. So a lost battle actually increased morale and our ability to fight, hence it was known as a morale victory.
I can guess that maybe the term moral victory is either a bastardization of the correct term or one of those VN pocket presents :)

what ever you want to call it, it most certainly does exist.
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