Quote of the Day: “Everybody drive safely. The car you hit could be me.” — Dr. Robert Marshall, professor of my risk management class, wishing his class a happy holiday
I write these things to you from just outside St. Louis, Missouri, where I’ll be spending my Thanksgiving. I’m getting ready to go out to breakfast, then later out to dinner at lunchtime. So today’s activity, and the activity from now until New Years, will be eating. Eating and more eating. It’s funny to me the way people talk about it too, as though it’s something completely out of their hands. I was at a Thanksgiving party this past Monday (another eating-fest) and more than one person stated that it was time again to prepare for our waistlines to expand. Has it become that normal? It is normal I guess. I think what I’d really like to know is when people became okay with it. I can remember not too long ago when people would fight the oncoming holiday spread. Now it seems as though more people surrender to the holiday weight gain before it comes, waiting until after the holidays to assess the damage and take action from there.
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Another loss. That’s good. I am known for looking at the worst possible outcomes in life, so here’s what the FSU football team and its fans could be looking at:
1) We could have a 7-6 season. This would happen if we lose to Florida, Miami/VT in the ACC championship game, and our bowl game. This after being 7-1 at one point. Right now that’s difficult to call mostly because our bowl opponent is unknown, but a strong case can be made for why we will be 7-5 going into that bowl game.
2) We could qualify for a BCS bowl as an unranked team. After today’s loss to Clemson we will probably be unranked, having come into the game ranked #17. A loss to Florida would give us even fewer votes. If by some miracle we win the ACC championship game we would go to a BCS bowl, but might not earn enough points by virtue of that single victory to make it back into the Top 25. I would request to play the winner of the Big East, who undoubtedly will also be a team that does not deserve a BCS bid.
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I can’t say I didn’t see this coming.
I am a senior after all. I’ve seen three other football seasons — really seen them, as only a student can — before this one. And while it’s true that this season we don’t have Captain Throw-Into-Triple-Coverage-Instead-Of-Out-Of-Bounds at quarterback we do still have Admiral Call-Plays-That-Necessitate-Throws-Into-Triple-Coverage as our offensive coordinator. Not to mention an offensive line and currently injured defense with so many holes we make the Swiss jealous. But while I could point to these structural defects inherent in our design what I am more apt to look to as our prime reason for failure is our inability to do anything but follow the script.
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