As per the title here, “my latest theory” is simply this:
Like myself, EVERYONE IS GETTING LAZY...and fed up!
At least when it comes to fans and supposed “media experts”—and let’s face it, these latter folks are really just “more folks like us” who have had the luck and/or brains to figure or maneuver a way to get PAID to do it!
What’s there to “figure out” here?
Between the election, Covid, and the overlapping and to some extent interwoven effects and repercussions of BOTH, we’re ALL fed up with having to analyze and further figure the meaning of EVERY DAMN WRINKLE WE CONTINUE TO BE PRESENTED WITH.
So whenever some latest conundrum is placed in front of us—in this case the whole tangled “oranges and apples” paradox this season’s CFB Playoff rankings in general place before us, the “Top Six” having to eventually be pared into a “Top Four”, and how to do that “FAIRLY”, well, the easiest thing to do is to JUST COP OUT:
That is, knowing that schedules and eventual “results on the field” WILL more or less SETTLE the matter, EVERYONE SAYS AND DOES NOTHING: Leave things the way they are, look the other way, and hope for the best—which “the odds” say will almost “with inevitable certainty” resolve.
It is neither particularly brave nor satisfying, but it IS easier, and effective, in practical terms.
Oh, it makes the current and following weeks awkward—but it ALSO stimulates “discussion and controversy”, which is another general aim here as well...And so, it can be (and WILL be) argued by some, is in FACT “a good thing”!
So I guess we’d be best off not getting caught up in it:
We Gators had already accepted the basic proposition by at least a coupla games BACK that it was down to that ANYWAY: Win out our regular schedule, meet Bama in the SEC Championship—and then, WIN THAT. Do so, and we go from there.
Take it all in stride, keep evolving, growing as a TEAM, and who KNOWS our potential limits??!
Frankly, I like our attitude—the way we’ve seemed to calmly “shoulder the LOAD” together, as a TEAM...and just kept working, doing what needed doing, game to game, quarter to quarter, play to PLAY if necessary!
Keep that up, and I won’t MAKE any predictions. Won’t HAVE to.
We will find OUT for ourselves, in steady and determined fashion, just how much we are capable of, how FAR we might be capable of going.
I find that at THIS point, at least, I am feeling great pride in this team, all its squads. Healthy and hunkering down TOGETHER, they are more and more it seems a tough and determined UNIT, finding strength within and among themselves—expecting little to be “given to them” and willing to WORK HARD TO ACHIEVE WHATEVER THEY CAN.
Fight ON, FIGHTIN’ GATORS!
Don’t. Back. Down.
Like myself, EVERYONE IS GETTING LAZY...and fed up!
At least when it comes to fans and supposed “media experts”—and let’s face it, these latter folks are really just “more folks like us” who have had the luck and/or brains to figure or maneuver a way to get PAID to do it!
What’s there to “figure out” here?
Between the election, Covid, and the overlapping and to some extent interwoven effects and repercussions of BOTH, we’re ALL fed up with having to analyze and further figure the meaning of EVERY DAMN WRINKLE WE CONTINUE TO BE PRESENTED WITH.
So whenever some latest conundrum is placed in front of us—in this case the whole tangled “oranges and apples” paradox this season’s CFB Playoff rankings in general place before us, the “Top Six” having to eventually be pared into a “Top Four”, and how to do that “FAIRLY”, well, the easiest thing to do is to JUST COP OUT:
That is, knowing that schedules and eventual “results on the field” WILL more or less SETTLE the matter, EVERYONE SAYS AND DOES NOTHING: Leave things the way they are, look the other way, and hope for the best—which “the odds” say will almost “with inevitable certainty” resolve.
It is neither particularly brave nor satisfying, but it IS easier, and effective, in practical terms.
Oh, it makes the current and following weeks awkward—but it ALSO stimulates “discussion and controversy”, which is another general aim here as well...And so, it can be (and WILL be) argued by some, is in FACT “a good thing”!
So I guess we’d be best off not getting caught up in it:
We Gators had already accepted the basic proposition by at least a coupla games BACK that it was down to that ANYWAY: Win out our regular schedule, meet Bama in the SEC Championship—and then, WIN THAT. Do so, and we go from there.
Take it all in stride, keep evolving, growing as a TEAM, and who KNOWS our potential limits??!
Frankly, I like our attitude—the way we’ve seemed to calmly “shoulder the LOAD” together, as a TEAM...and just kept working, doing what needed doing, game to game, quarter to quarter, play to PLAY if necessary!
Keep that up, and I won’t MAKE any predictions. Won’t HAVE to.
We will find OUT for ourselves, in steady and determined fashion, just how much we are capable of, how FAR we might be capable of going.
I find that at THIS point, at least, I am feeling great pride in this team, all its squads. Healthy and hunkering down TOGETHER, they are more and more it seems a tough and determined UNIT, finding strength within and among themselves—expecting little to be “given to them” and willing to WORK HARD TO ACHIEVE WHATEVER THEY CAN.
Fight ON, FIGHTIN’ GATORS!
Don’t. Back. Down.
