What is there to say, at this point?
To a certain extent, this one feels about like sending a child out to cross the freeway. Blindfolded.
Hope I'm wrong about that. That there really IS "a puncher's chance".
I won't go into it all again, how we somehow got here, despite the original schedule, the sad combination of poor judgement and poor luck, etc, all that marks that twisted trail.
No, we all know, have LIVED it...If you're like me, you've screamed at the radio/ TV/computer screen along the way--at our team, our coaches, maybe most of all at all the stupid crap the "experts" have said or FAILED to say along the way.
None of that maters now. Either we find a way to win a game, THIS game, and in so doing make this season an objectively "successful" one after all-OR we "follow the assumed script", lose like everyone is completely certain we will (almost LAUGHINGLY so--that's how far we've fallen in the college football consciousness, maybe even deservedly, considering our offensive futility last 6-7 years), hand Tennessee the East and go quietly into the downward spiral a string of stubborn, lunkheaded Coaches and OCs have prepared for us over that time.
And if Coach Mac doesn't see, grasp and determinedly aim to AVOID, STARTING RIGHT NOW, well, then he'll be just the latest, in my book.
I don't know if I can watch, there's so much at stake here, far as I can see. Not just this game, then, not even just this season--but rather how far we're bound to fall and KEEP falling, and how long it might go ON for.
Oh, I'll watch, of COURSE, at least the early going...But KO fumble or run back against us, and/or some quick-accumulating disaster of pick-6's and the like piling up and I'm GONE. And no, I'm not looking for some "moral victory". This time ANY kinda WIN will do, right? But we stay close, show some imagination on offense to go with a D that will hold its own, even thinned out as it is, IF that offense will give their teamates on the other side of the ball some BREATHING space, TIME to rest between drives, at least.
The rest is up to Coach Mac and the gameplan (well, that and their flexibility, their ADAPTIBILITY between halves--something they HAVEN'T shown a lot of so far, not when it counted). Time to earn your salries--and our TRUST, gentlemen.
To a certain extent, this one feels about like sending a child out to cross the freeway. Blindfolded.
Hope I'm wrong about that. That there really IS "a puncher's chance".
I won't go into it all again, how we somehow got here, despite the original schedule, the sad combination of poor judgement and poor luck, etc, all that marks that twisted trail.
No, we all know, have LIVED it...If you're like me, you've screamed at the radio/ TV/computer screen along the way--at our team, our coaches, maybe most of all at all the stupid crap the "experts" have said or FAILED to say along the way.
None of that maters now. Either we find a way to win a game, THIS game, and in so doing make this season an objectively "successful" one after all-OR we "follow the assumed script", lose like everyone is completely certain we will (almost LAUGHINGLY so--that's how far we've fallen in the college football consciousness, maybe even deservedly, considering our offensive futility last 6-7 years), hand Tennessee the East and go quietly into the downward spiral a string of stubborn, lunkheaded Coaches and OCs have prepared for us over that time.
And if Coach Mac doesn't see, grasp and determinedly aim to AVOID, STARTING RIGHT NOW, well, then he'll be just the latest, in my book.
I don't know if I can watch, there's so much at stake here, far as I can see. Not just this game, then, not even just this season--but rather how far we're bound to fall and KEEP falling, and how long it might go ON for.
Oh, I'll watch, of COURSE, at least the early going...But KO fumble or run back against us, and/or some quick-accumulating disaster of pick-6's and the like piling up and I'm GONE. And no, I'm not looking for some "moral victory". This time ANY kinda WIN will do, right? But we stay close, show some imagination on offense to go with a D that will hold its own, even thinned out as it is, IF that offense will give their teamates on the other side of the ball some BREATHING space, TIME to rest between drives, at least.
The rest is up to Coach Mac and the gameplan (well, that and their flexibility, their ADAPTIBILITY between halves--something they HAVEN'T shown a lot of so far, not when it counted). Time to earn your salries--and our TRUST, gentlemen.
