This could be a LOOOONNNNG list—but for now I only have the one main overwhelming fantasy:
For AR to be fine, and able to fulfill what turns out to be what was always a secret part of Mullen’s hidden plan to shock Bama and THE WORLD (not to mention a whole lot of us Gator fans too, by the way), when he and Grantham pull out all the fluky stops vs The Tide this Saturday.
That has ALWAYS been what it would take to actually BEAT Bama now. And I KNOW that NOTHING could make us all more ecstatically happy than to see us SOMEHOW beat them Saturday.
Now, I know what “everyone” out there is saying about this...
And I’m still inclined to listen to (and normally GO with) our Coach on this specific issue, for exactly the anticipated reasons.
But there are other signs and portents, not to mention situational details that say otherwise. Hell, there’s the little matter of the clear fact that “playing by the book” we have practically NO CHANCE!
So I’m going with my “dream”.
I mean, if we go down late in some flaming, glory-grabbing see-saw battle I can EASILY LIVE WITH THAT!
What about y’all?
After these first two performances, I don’t hold out much hope at our fully stepping into the elite spotlight this season, after all.
But we do now have a real opportunity to see “what we got and where we’re going”—and begin to answer whether we’ll likely get “THERE” soon.
To find out exactly where not just our team but our COACH is at, and what HIS attitude and level of determination really is.
Is HE ready to put it all on the line? If NOT now, WHEN?
(Of course, as I have said, AR pulling up holding his hammy on that last long TD run gives him cover, if AR DOESN’T play. We then may NEVER know “what MIGHT have been”, nor the truth of “Why?”: If that’s how it plays out, none of it is settled now after all. Maybe that’s the “safer road”, in the long run.
And if AR-15 is truly gimped, it is probably the RIGHT move as well.
“BUT...”
Yeah. That huge and cautionary qualification remains.
So I ask:
“What about y’all??!”
How do YOU see this?
For AR to be fine, and able to fulfill what turns out to be what was always a secret part of Mullen’s hidden plan to shock Bama and THE WORLD (not to mention a whole lot of us Gator fans too, by the way), when he and Grantham pull out all the fluky stops vs The Tide this Saturday.
That has ALWAYS been what it would take to actually BEAT Bama now. And I KNOW that NOTHING could make us all more ecstatically happy than to see us SOMEHOW beat them Saturday.
Now, I know what “everyone” out there is saying about this...
And I’m still inclined to listen to (and normally GO with) our Coach on this specific issue, for exactly the anticipated reasons.
But there are other signs and portents, not to mention situational details that say otherwise. Hell, there’s the little matter of the clear fact that “playing by the book” we have practically NO CHANCE!
So I’m going with my “dream”.
I mean, if we go down late in some flaming, glory-grabbing see-saw battle I can EASILY LIVE WITH THAT!
What about y’all?
After these first two performances, I don’t hold out much hope at our fully stepping into the elite spotlight this season, after all.
But we do now have a real opportunity to see “what we got and where we’re going”—and begin to answer whether we’ll likely get “THERE” soon.
To find out exactly where not just our team but our COACH is at, and what HIS attitude and level of determination really is.
Is HE ready to put it all on the line? If NOT now, WHEN?
(Of course, as I have said, AR pulling up holding his hammy on that last long TD run gives him cover, if AR DOESN’T play. We then may NEVER know “what MIGHT have been”, nor the truth of “Why?”: If that’s how it plays out, none of it is settled now after all. Maybe that’s the “safer road”, in the long run.
And if AR-15 is truly gimped, it is probably the RIGHT move as well.
“BUT...”
Yeah. That huge and cautionary qualification remains.
So I ask:
“What about y’all??!”
How do YOU see this?