“Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption
Andy Dufresne never met college football.
If he had, he would understand that hope dies every year, often before the season’s opening kickoff and usually in the most agonizing fashion possible.
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August is upon us and that means college football, like the Sirens beckoning Ulysses, pleads for us to come back in, to open our hearts once again to the lost dreams of seasons past, to yearn for that thing that our beloved program has never achieved, or hasn’t achieved in a long time.