fair question. for me, there are times when, after we lose, I can objectively look at the matchup and say that, yes, we deserved to lose and we had no real shot to win and it all makes perfect sense...the best team did win. i accept this loss as being fair and measured. However, if Iowa drops a game to the next four it will be due to a major screw-up on our part. we will have given the game away. these are not "evenly matched teams" where it's a toss-up. nor are we underdogs just hoping for a chance in the 4th quarter. we are the favorites and we should win. if we don't, by these terms, it will be UNacceptable. I won't boycott and I won't call for KF to be fired...nothing like that. I simply won't accept that the "better team won." of course, it should be said, that the better teams don't always win, and that's why you play the game, and on any given sunday, and etc etc etc...it's all true. i'm as nervous as anyone right now about Indiana's QB and their history of carving up our secondary and all the rest. But, objectively, we are the better team and we should win. that is all i'm trying to say.
I also agree that I wouldn't be surprised if we did drop a game somewhere down the line. i feel this way mostly due to our history and my bitter feelings towards some of our poor losses that derailed otherwise special seasons. And, to be totally honest, I'm glad you reminded me that this, too, is a special season regardless of what a loss will do to it. that's the truth; this has been a special season and will be regardless. I've become greedy and I want it all, or at least a shot at "it all." it's right there and I feel it would be a sports-tragedy if we didn't TCB and ride into Indianapolis with something even bigger than a conference championship at stake.
