At one point, perhaps when you read this (and perhaps, also, in November) the University of Minnesota may be good at football. They might even be "good" but due to many down seasons, the "good" is magnified. The enthusiasm will be infectious. It'll be hard not to want to take a part of it. "This might be the year" they will say...they being anyone who is WAY TOO OPTIMISTIC on such matters. It might be their job to be optimistic, of course. Those in Minnesota won't know the difference.
As I was saying, you'll be very pleased with those moments. You're ready to celebrate, and it'll be easy to visualize the upcoming success. There will be Rose Bowl talk.
To wit:
Look, I could go on and on...but don't be completely fooled: there will be some success. Winning overall records...even winning Big Ten records.
But then...the talk will arrive. Talk. People in MN will Talk About It. If it's a good season after a few bad ones, a national media member might even bring them up with "what a turnaround."
Don't be fooled. Even with a mid-season upset win over a better school. The check will come. It will come in either end-of-game heartbreak or full diaper-filling, one or the other. It'll happen. And because you're not completely cynical, you'll be upset because of course you'd like them to be good. Hell, you want them to be good! But you know better! You shove reason aside as a result...
If, one day, this achievement occurs, then this thought will be deleted. But until that time, which is 50+ years in the making...remember the history. Temper yourself. You'll feel better as a result.
