we'll never win a championship so I'd rather have fun watching the games
1) Lol at your avatar.
2) I have to confess that deep down inside, in a place that I don't talk about at parties, I believe that we will win a championship. Sure there is no reasonable path that I can see that will get us there. We are trapped in "the P6." We don't have natural recruiting grounds and we are competing for recruits against teams with a much better established tradition. We play in a very nice but smallish stadium located thirty minutes from campus in a region that has more pro than college allegiances and we have no natural rival.
But I am old enough to remember a time when everyone was quite sure when we'd never get out of the play in game in BE for basketball, when we'd never sniff a winning season in conference, never mind win a regular season championship. Winning a game or two in the BE Tournament was a dream, winning the whole thing an impossibility. Getting to the final four, gosh if we were lucky and everything came together, maybe we'd achieve that once. Winning a national championship was never going to happen. Winning four in last 20 years? Silly. We could never be that dominant. And yet here we are, one the greatest basketball schools of the last two decades.
Now you might say, well football is not basketball; the path to success, never mind a national championship is far, far harder. And of course you'd be right. But then again we told we'd have to wait decades to get in a bowl game, never mind win one. Winning seasons? They just won't happen. We'd never beat the teams from established conferences like the Big 10 and SEC, but we did. We'd never win games against the marquee schools of college football, like Notre Dame, but we have and at their house.
So yeah, I realize we are down pretty far right now, losing to the dregs of college football, but deep down, in a place that I don't talk about at parties, I believe in us, in this university, because we've beaten the odds before.
