A week ago I wrote a FanPost about how the performance of the football and men's basketball teams this academic year was not just bad, but historically bad. I did this mainly to try and justify the seemingly unprecedented "dude, this sucks" feeling that had darkened my burnt orange soul since that September night in Berkeley. And as it turned out, the numbers backed me up.

At the time, their combined winning percentage of .357 was the lowest since 1958-59. Pretty dadgum sorry. However, a few readers commented that combining their W-L records didn't give a truly accurate picture, since football gets watered down by lumping it together with 20+ games of men's hoops. For example, the 1958 football team's respectable 7-3 record is rendered moot by the 1958-59 men's basketball team's 4-20 disaster.

It's a fair criticism. In my defense, I was just trying to keep things simple. But now I've tweaked my data to show things from a different angle. This time, I let each team's winning percentage stand alone, then combined the two percentages. The lower the combined number, the greater the suck. Think of it like OPS (on-base % plus slugging %) in baseball.

Again, I went through the past 60 years on sports-reference.com and plucked out the real stinkers to see how they compared. Here are the five worst:

(I hesitate to insult your intelligence by even typing this, but ... FB is football and MBB is men's basketball)

1956-57 -- FB 1-9 (.100), MBB 11-13 (.458), combined winning % of .558

2016-17 -- FB 5-7 (.417), MBB 11-22 (.333), combined winning % of .750