Yes--This is the last Saturday that we face someone we can be favored to BEAT: OURSELVES.
After this, it is hard to pick out a favorable match-up on our remaining schedule.
Maybe Arkansas--our one last home game.
Missouri has a decent season going, more consistent than our performance thus far, and well, the rest would require a massive rising to the occasion to pull off even ONE resulting upset.
So: Realistically, TWO more wins and our "keeping things respectably close" in the other three would have to be accepted as "progress".
Hey look: I don't like it either.
Fact is, comes right down to it, truth is I HATE everything ABOUT having to settle for rationalizing like this. Deep down of COURSE I secretly hope for more--but for now, "The Future" requires us to stay calm, lie low, find "hope" in the SMALL things while the trolls and crazies put us down and write us off.
For the moment, it will have to be the minor positives on the field and the hopefully more major ones OFF it that continue to shape what's coming in months and years to come.
After this, it is hard to pick out a favorable match-up on our remaining schedule.
Maybe Arkansas--our one last home game.
Missouri has a decent season going, more consistent than our performance thus far, and well, the rest would require a massive rising to the occasion to pull off even ONE resulting upset.
So: Realistically, TWO more wins and our "keeping things respectably close" in the other three would have to be accepted as "progress".
Hey look: I don't like it either.
Fact is, comes right down to it, truth is I HATE everything ABOUT having to settle for rationalizing like this. Deep down of COURSE I secretly hope for more--but for now, "The Future" requires us to stay calm, lie low, find "hope" in the SMALL things while the trolls and crazies put us down and write us off.
For the moment, it will have to be the minor positives on the field and the hopefully more major ones OFF it that continue to shape what's coming in months and years to come.