[jacketree]

No doubt it is difficult to go from a BCS-level team to one that appears average at best.  But if that is the worst thing that happens to any of us as fans, count our blessings.

I had my own gut check when I couldn't watch them blow a big lead at home against UCLA in 2005 because the game wasn't on in downtown Los Angeles of all places. So I just caught the meltdown via highlight interruptions into whichever lame game was on in downtown LA.  Why I was despondent after that, who knows? (Probably the utter pointlessness of it all.)  But I didn't even eat dinner that night.  Woke up the next morning having sworn off really caring about this stuff and have been the better for it since.

So now I have a five minute recovery time for things like watching Georgia Tech blow a 20 point lead to Georgia last year.  Or watching Tech get the go ahead score on an 80 yard reverse on 1st and 20 with 3 minutes left on Saturday, knowing that they had lost by not using all 3 minutes to score.  (Sho' nuf' UNC scored the winner with 0:11 on the clock.)  Heck, I recovered from the ASU game 5 minutes into the 4th quarter when it was clear this just ain't happening.

The secret is, even if you don't really care about this stuff, you can still enjoy winning the Rose Bowl.  Just not quite as much.

[jacketree]

No doubt it is difficult to go from a BCS-level team to one that appears average at best.  But if that is the worst thing that happens to any of us as fans, count our blessings.

I had my own gut check when I couldn't watch them blow a big lead at home against UCLA in 2005 because the game wasn't on in downtown Los Angeles of all places. So I just caught the meltdown via highlight interruptions into whichever lame game was on in downtown LA.  Why I was despondent after that, who knows? (Probably the utter pointlessness of it all.)  But I didn't even eat dinner that night.  Woke up the next morning having sworn off really caring about this stuff and have been the better for it since.

So now I have a five minute recovery time for things like watching Georgia Tech blow a 20 point lead to Georgia last year.  Or watching Tech get the go ahead score on an 80 yard reverse on 1st and 20 with 3 minutes left on Saturday, knowing that they had lost by not using all 3 minutes to score.  (Sho' nuf' UNC scored the winner with 0:11 on the clock.)  Heck, I recovered from the ASU game 5 minutes into the 4th quarter when it was clear this just ain't happening.

The secret is, even if you don't really care about this stuff, you can still enjoy winning the Rose Bowl.  Just not quite as much.