Home Season Thoughts

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.  Since the home season is done, I thought I'd give a recap on my thoughts of the season and tailgating.

First off, we have never, and will never, lose a tailgate!  Your participation has made this a wonderful endeavor, and UC football continues to be more and more of an "event" thanks to you.  I don't need ESPin to tell me what football is worth watching, what games to attend, or what schools to cheer for.  I enjoy watching teams of relatively equal ability duke it out with passion and effort, thus Yale vs. Harvard is as exciting in my mind as #1 vs #2 in the country. 

In terms of our group going forward, I'm unsure if we'll be in our same spot next year, but we are working on multiple possibilities and regardless the final outcome, at least hope to know earlier than we have in the past so we can plan around it.  Your support, both financially and by participating (sides, gear, etc) has made this much easier, and we hope you have found it worthwhile.  Thank you.

As for the season, I have always said with as competitive as CFB is, ANY year you win more than 7 games is a success.  Period.  Doing that in an environment in which the discrepancy in resources some teams face, unlike the NFL, where you all make the same regardless, is even more impressive.

In light of the changing landscape of CFB conferences, and ESPN's continued influence over it, I think everyone is wondering where UC will end up.  Personally, I think it's a couple more years till this shakes out, and we'll play the waiting game till then.  I know Whit and President Ono are doing everything they can to position us well, but it takes two willing parties to go on a date.  Regardless, I rooted and tailgated for UC as an independent, in CUSA, the BE, and will do so going forward.  Again, I root FOR UC, not against whoever we're playing or b/c the media tells me to.  The more the power brokers change the game, the less I think the fans win, and in the end the students.

That being said, it was a hell of a year, and a success.  We're not that far removed from 1-9 seasons in the grand scheme, I still appreciate we're we've come from and how far we've made it.  Makes being a fan fun.  Hope to see you at the bowl game, and in the meantime enjoy basketball's resurgence with one of our best teams in decades.

GO CATS!