It's terrible in a lot of ways, compared to my expectations. If we miss the Dance this year, we essentially should have missed three straight years. That is terrible. We don't have a ton of talent on the roster, even by our standards. That is terrible. I'm not nearly as bullish on the incoming class next year as some are. That is terrible. We might be looking for a transfer to come in and save the day AGAIN. I find that terrible. It's terrible that our program is in the shape it is after what, 8 years of Lon?
I may have stopped posting, but I was on the board during that entire time. I saw the writing on the wall, but knew nobody around here wanted to hear my opinion, so rather than stir stuff up, I just didn't post. I also traveled for work basically the entire time from the week before Thanksgiving until mid to late December, so my free time was limited. But mostly, I just chose not to stir stuff up with my opinion of where this team was headed. I remember when I jumped off the Capel train before everybody else. I posted about it, and was called all kinds of horrible things. I was right. I was right this time too, I just chose not to endure the abuse. You can make of that what you want.
Why would have I have shown humility during the win streak? I expected this team to be in the Dance this year. I think the roster, while not great, reflects a team that should comfortably make the Dance. So back in the OOC portion of the schedule, they were playing about how they should. But I saw signs of it being a bit of smoke and mirrors, and some of those wins that we thought were good wins slowly started looking less and less impressive. Again, I had two options. State that I thought the team would fall apart once Big 12 play started, or show some fake happiness over what I thought was a record that did not reflect what our team actually was. So again, I chose to be quiet over bringing my negativity to the board. Sorry that upsets some of you. Not really though.
