[81alum]

There have been some genuinely eloquent posts in this thread.

I'm with ferrari on this.  My Stanford consciousness was shaped in an up-and-down era.  For the last  several years I have discovered that I am incapable of getting rid of my doubts no matter what our team does to convince me.  I feel almost as if I was psychologically maimed in my youth and the repressed memories keep distorting my perceptions of reality.  To defend myself from those ghosts, I forbid myself from becoming too optimistic and consistently underestimate how well we will play. 

[81alum]

There have been some genuinely eloquent posts in this thread.

I'm with ferrari on this.  My Stanford consciousness was shaped in an up-and-down era.  For the last  several years I have discovered that I am incapable of getting rid of my doubts no matter what our team does to convince me.  I feel almost as if I was psychologically maimed in my youth and the repressed memories keep distorting my perceptions of reality.  To defend myself from those ghosts, I forbid myself from becoming too optimistic and consistently underestimate how well we will play.