I can't ignore it any longer...this feeling of impending doom. I want it to be some emotional exaggeration, borne of disappointment and frustration--the usual thing after a bad loss.
But instead of fading, it is there, growing stronger each day. By now it is almost overpowering, like "waiting for the other shoe to drop":
I am now more than half EXPECTING to wake up to the news that this Coach has been fired.
Maybe there will necessarily be OTHER "more bad news" first between now and then--but for various reasons there is now a powerful oncoming "undercurrent" growing around us.
I know all the logical arguments as to how and why it shouldn't work that way, the situational details that argue how so many other things would need to happen first--but somehow it just feels like "things are DIFFERENT this time"...
It's a powerful FEELING.
I won't bother arguing how or why it will or won't happen--I don't WANT it to happen, but what I think or feel has nothing to do with this:
The inescapable impression that too much of a certain chain-of-events has already been set in motion to dampen this growing wave of negativity.
In fact, though I would normally not do this, I am going to recommend an article by Pat Forde just published in this week's Sports Illustrated, one entitled "Struggling College Powerhouses Are Running Out of Time to Salvage Season".
It names and focuses on several once-dominant programs, but begins with a simple and frankly devastating overview of the University of Florida, one that unblinkingly nails where we are and how we got here.
Read it. It is unbiased and relatively unemotional--an important "step back" perspective to go with the pronouncements of our more "Gator-CENTRIC" commentators, however welcome and "fair" we find their contributions.
I'm going to stop here. I actually had more written but decided to instead cut it off and let you all read, consider and hopefully HELP ME to make sense of it all. I am quite fallible, after all; As I say, I sure WANT to be wrong about a FEW things here...But at the root of all this there IS "the evidence of our own EYES!"
Is there a more "HOPEFUL" way of assessing it?
But instead of fading, it is there, growing stronger each day. By now it is almost overpowering, like "waiting for the other shoe to drop":
I am now more than half EXPECTING to wake up to the news that this Coach has been fired.
Maybe there will necessarily be OTHER "more bad news" first between now and then--but for various reasons there is now a powerful oncoming "undercurrent" growing around us.
I know all the logical arguments as to how and why it shouldn't work that way, the situational details that argue how so many other things would need to happen first--but somehow it just feels like "things are DIFFERENT this time"...
It's a powerful FEELING.
I won't bother arguing how or why it will or won't happen--I don't WANT it to happen, but what I think or feel has nothing to do with this:
The inescapable impression that too much of a certain chain-of-events has already been set in motion to dampen this growing wave of negativity.
In fact, though I would normally not do this, I am going to recommend an article by Pat Forde just published in this week's Sports Illustrated, one entitled "Struggling College Powerhouses Are Running Out of Time to Salvage Season".
It names and focuses on several once-dominant programs, but begins with a simple and frankly devastating overview of the University of Florida, one that unblinkingly nails where we are and how we got here.
Read it. It is unbiased and relatively unemotional--an important "step back" perspective to go with the pronouncements of our more "Gator-CENTRIC" commentators, however welcome and "fair" we find their contributions.
I'm going to stop here. I actually had more written but decided to instead cut it off and let you all read, consider and hopefully HELP ME to make sense of it all. I am quite fallible, after all; As I say, I sure WANT to be wrong about a FEW things here...But at the root of all this there IS "the evidence of our own EYES!"
Is there a more "HOPEFUL" way of assessing it?
