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fullmetal -- Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to denigrate this year's defense one bit.  Indeed, I think it has been incredible.  Nor am I naive enough to think that the relative injury-free quality of the season so far is a lock to continue indefinitely [but am certainly knocking on wood that it will].  Nor do I imagine that our defensive coaches' qualities will go unnoticed [although I'm hoping the current AD will be willing to build them whatever restroom facilities they may want...]

I was only reacting to what I perceived as the increasingly "doom and gloom" tone of this now-8-page long string [with a truly unfortunate subject line].  To review the bidding:  The QB is terrible.  The WR's are terrible.  5-2 is terrible, because it should be 7-0.  The coaches are terrible.  The defense is great...but it won't last beyond this year... 

Have I missed anything?  Oh yeah, we should have won the Fiesta Bowl!

Having followed Stanford football for 50+ years, I can't think of all of the seasons I would have killed for being 5-2, with a win over S.C. AND K.al in the same season to boot...

Sorry...end of rant.  [I do confess, though, that the most recent Hitler parody clip [re the N.D. loss] was pretty funny...]

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fullmetal -- Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to denigrate this year's defense one bit.  Indeed, I think it has been incredible.  Nor am I naive enough to think that the relative injury-free quality of the season so far is a lock to continue indefinitely [but am certainly knocking on wood that it will].  Nor do I imagine that our defensive coaches' qualities will go unnoticed [although I'm hoping the current AD will be willing to build them whatever restroom facilities they may want...]

I was only reacting to what I perceived as the increasingly "doom and gloom" tone of this now-8-page long string [with a truly unfortunate subject line].  To review the bidding:  The QB is terrible.  The WR's are terrible.  5-2 is terrible, because it should be 7-0.  The coaches are terrible.  The defense is great...but it won't last beyond this year... 

Have I missed anything?  Oh yeah, we should have won the Fiesta Bowl!

Having followed Stanford football for 50+ years, I can't think of all of the seasons I would have killed for being 5-2, with a win over S.C. AND K.al in the same season to boot...

Sorry...end of rant.  [I do confess, though, that the most recent Hitler parody clip [re the N.D. loss] was pretty funny...]