Re: Ohio State: Next Season's FSU w/o the Drama
Do I even dare open my mouth here?
Every so often we go through this - some team is the next UCLA basketball dynasty, the NY Yankees, the Boston Celtics, and the Canadiens ALL ROLLED INTO ONE!!!!
Florida State under Bobby Bowden had that incredible run.....two titles in his 15 years as a top five team. USC had an awesome run.......1 1/2 titles. That Miami team with Ken Dorsey, greatest ever.....one title. Alabama gets three in four and now all of a sudden anyone can do it, right? Never mind that NOW you have to win SIX TOUGH GAMES against the best of the best to win it all rather than the old THREE. The theory is that a dynasty will be easier because it's easier to have a good team that sloughs off a loss; I say it's harder because you now have an extra VERY difficult game that may injure your best player(s). It will be easier to be in the running but tougher to actually do.
I'm gonna remind you folks of something......remember all the shouting in 2013 about how the winner of the Alabama-aTm game had "an easy way" the rest of the way and that that was a de facto Western conference title game? And how aTm couldn't possibly lose more than twice at most? REMEMBER that? Because I sure do. aTm was gonna ground us into sausage and pass us out the colon. And remember how the moment we lost to Ole Miss this whole board went "bite down on the cyanide pill" and said we'd lose 3-4 games esp after the Arkansas debacle?
Or who among you saw MSU as #1 for five weeks this year? Anybody? Of course not!!!
The fact is that nobody knows what will happen. Ohio State is already the target in the Big Ten given Michigan's recent struggles. But they didn't go unbeaten this year, either. Who among you had them losing to Va Tech? Nobody? This whole "well, they don't have a game until week 11" is such foolish talk it makes me want to strangle someone. And remember that six-loss Auburn team a bunch of you projected in 2010?
I went out on a limb after we lost to S Carolina in 2010 and said Auburn was our toughest game remaining. I got mocked six ways from Tuesday and yet I turned out to be dead on right. People could explain to me how Auburn was a lousy team and "lucky" and all that jazz. Maybe so - but I'd rather be the luckiest bad team to win the title than the best team ever to NOT win it.
Nobody knows, it's months away and just put down the Kool-Aid. Everyone.
RTR
I guess with us at number ten I should plan on.......what? If we win them all, we're in.
