Reading this and the other threads from last year have helped me understand why some ABers are so butt-hurt this year - they were bathing in hope and optimism then. For them, this year must be like the morning after a hard drunk. To them I say: Suck it up, Sally, your team needs you.
Morning after?!? Not really.
It's more like hearing a beloved relative has diagnosed to a horrible disease and then watch the symptoms become increasingly debilitating over the following half-decade.
HCMM and Jeff George is like DiStephano's last ditch treatment program that is only available in Israel, but doesn't have FDA approval.
In my heart is a prayer that CU's players shine on the football field and win some games. But my head recognizes that DiStephano is a cancer to the program. DiStephano throwing a bunch money at some new faces in the athletic department at this point in his career is not going to create some kind of miracle in 2013.
The fans have been blamed by Phil and the media as being a part of the problem. All the while we fans have been cheering our hearts out, buying tickets, enthusiastically cheering on the Buffs through the pseudo scandal of Barnett, during the failed Hawkins experiment, and the Embree error.
I can with 100 percent certainty testify that koolaid drinking fans predicting three or four (or more) wins is NOT what our team needs.
The players need long term and committed institutional support built on the vision and leadership of people like DiStephano.
Come back and lecture me after DiStephano stops delegating down to his lapdogs and starts showing some balls. Last time I checked, Phil has NOT guaranteed a win over CSU. He has NOT owned up to his negligence/incompetence over the past eight years. He has NOT staked his reputation on the Colorado Buffaloes playing for a conference championship in the Rose Bowl.
So excuse me while I sit back and wait to see if HCMM is another "Real Deal" or another "Home Run Hire" or just another coach handicapped by CU leadership that is not emotionally committed to being football fans themselves.
