Possibilities

In Shawshank Redemption, Red talks about hope being a bad thing, and being locked in crappy football prison for so many years, I have been smushed by hope often. But that familiar refrain has a chance to be buried with a little magic this evening. Rutgers didn't kill anybody, and their only crime has been being a bad football husband, and whatever that crime's punishment is, they have more than served enough time. Maybe it is odds of probability, that they woudl finally hire a good coach who would finally keep enough local talent, and have some odd connection with another football power state in Florida. And if the world played the scenerio out enough times, Rutgers would come up a winner...
But that doesn't mean that the huge strides taken the last two years mean we will walk into Morgantown and walk away with an easy victory. The road is a cold and lonely place in college football. The lone easy road victory this year came after the defense ruined the team leaders leg, and I am sure that the shocked middies couldn't recover emotionally in time to get back into that game. In tonight's game, the Neers are spoilers, and probably aren't too happy after being reminded of that fact all week.
But that being said, my man Dufraine thinks hope is a good thing, and a win could be our parole where we go to Buxton, find a shiny rock that has no earthly business being there, find a map to Zihuatanejo and live in football paradise. i don't know if our visit to respectability will last a year, two years, or is a generation long thing, but my own experience says to enjoy the hell out of it now, and savor every moment I can.

Here's to savoring and some couch burning in Piscataway.

Go RU