Ah, the annual mental hamster wheel we put ourselves through every offseason. Maybe it’s more pronounced when you have a basketball program in turmoil, or maybe this always ends up being a period of reckless optimism regardless of any external circumstances.
What I’m saying here, of course, is that I’m real excited about football season and I wish it were football season already. I’m sure I will regret this sentiment sometime in mid-October, but nonetheless, here I am. It’s a sickness.
There is a lingering feeling that this is a now-or-never season, considering how graduation will gut this team; few teams have the luxury to survive the losses State is gonna sustain after this year, but the whole point is to build toward an opportunity like this one.