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It's probably time for me to drop DirecTV too. It will be 22 years in January, but no sense honestly in having DirecTV if I'm not going to watch college football anyways. For years, sports has been the only thing worth keeping it for, since getting all of the services ala carte ends up being just as expensive getting the whole package, but less convenient. And since I'm not close enough to get any networks over the air, I suppose I just won't be watching anything. Might tune in to see UM vs. a MAC team in September if I can find a stream somewhere. For decades, college football has been operating under the assumption that no matter what they do to shit up the sport, people will pay anything to tune in. The have found my breaking point, and I used to be a downright fanatic. When my wife and I first started dating, for instance, I quickly established that football Saturdays are strictly off limits for anything social. Especially out-of-town stuff like weddings. Starting about five years ago, I relaxed that rule and now I don't even bother planning around the games. It's time to walk away, mourn the loss of the sport, and move on. I was hoping that we'd get one final celebration, but that isn't to be. Maybe it's just as well. I dunno. I'm close to done with the football and I have always been a pretty blatant fair weather fan when it comes to the basketball team. But no college sport interests me that much, now that everyone is on a one year free agency contract.
Anyhow -- back to this weekend's game. This year the running game sucks. The RBs have regressed badly and none of this year's newer guys are as good as last year's. The passing game got better until the opposition figured out that Karsen Barnhardt is The Human Traffic Cone, and that singlehandedly destroys our entire passing game. We had been lucky about avoiding the injury bug until the Maryland game (I had noticed this a month ago, but I didn't want to comment on it because I didn't want to jinx anything) I have also noticed this year that we've been getting very favorable whistles from the zebras -- for the first time of the Harbaugh era. Almost every game, the refs have been spotting us 3-7 points. That's in stark contrast to 2016-2018 especially, when they were doing the opposite. I didn't want to jinx that one either but -- eh -- no point in trying to cling to it now. The clock will strike midnight on that trend too -- probably this weekend. Our Faustian good times have come to an end and it's time now for another long period of darkness. I dunno -- maybe we can beat OSU again in ten years.
The bowl game will be a 2018 Florida style collapse. I expect us to have multiple assistants gone and maybe a half dozen guys skip the game for the draft. Guys like Keegan, Zinter, McCarthy, Barrett, Wilson, Johnson, etc. Can't say that I blame them.
Anyhow -- back to this weekend's game. This year the running game sucks. The RBs have regressed badly and none of this year's newer guys are as good as last year's. The passing game got better until the opposition figured out that Karsen Barnhardt is The Human Traffic Cone, and that singlehandedly destroys our entire passing game. We had been lucky about avoiding the injury bug until the Maryland game (I had noticed this a month ago, but I didn't want to comment on it because I didn't want to jinx anything) I have also noticed this year that we've been getting very favorable whistles from the zebras -- for the first time of the Harbaugh era. Almost every game, the refs have been spotting us 3-7 points. That's in stark contrast to 2016-2018 especially, when they were doing the opposite. I didn't want to jinx that one either but -- eh -- no point in trying to cling to it now. The clock will strike midnight on that trend too -- probably this weekend. Our Faustian good times have come to an end and it's time now for another long period of darkness. I dunno -- maybe we can beat OSU again in ten years.
The bowl game will be a 2018 Florida style collapse. I expect us to have multiple assistants gone and maybe a half dozen guys skip the game for the draft. Guys like Keegan, Zinter, McCarthy, Barrett, Wilson, Johnson, etc. Can't say that I blame them.
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