It’s a bit hard to put into words the emotional roller coaster I always allow myself to go through each year. As one ASU football season comes and another goes, I repeatedly assure myself the next year will be THE year. This year again was supposed to be THAT year. I reckon all of us are pretty much experiencing the same heart wrench at this point in the season when we all had hoped to be 4-0 with a huge win against a top-ranked SEC team to prove to the BCS that ASU is legite and more importantly that the PAC-10 is a conference to be reckoned with. I hope all my fellow hicks out there are appreciating the fact that I used the word “reckon” twice in one sentence. Anyway, ASU ,and the PAC-10 for that matter, haven’t given any reason for anyone to believe the previous statements and needless to say it makes me sad.
Tonight the Devils lost to number 3 Georgia who, to tell you the truth, hasn’t impressed me much with there previous weeks wins. No ranked oponents, including tonight’s win against unranked ASU, and nothing spectacular to show for themselves other than a decent quarterback and a running back with apparent leaping ability indicates to me a team we could have and should have beat! Unfortunately, like every other year, I get my hopes up only to see them get thrown to the ground and shattered. I find it even more disheartening that this year those hopes were crashed by a measly UNLV team that didn’t deserve to even be on the same field as the Sundevils…so I thought…as well as I think most of the Tempe community and ASU student body. I compare the game against UNLV to a six month relationship that ends in tragedy. Every emotion that is possible to be felt is felt within that short time frame. In this case…the six month relationship only lasts for three hours though. Excitement, giddiness, hopeful, scared, worried, frustrated, bewildered, pissed off, and utter dispair….all in one night. Again I ask myself, why do I allow it. The answer is yet to be revealed…but I’m “hoping” it comes out in the end. Till then…
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