Yesterday was a lesson to me in appreciating this run we've

Oct 16, 2016, 6:14 PM

been on.

I was sitting in DV yesterday watching the clock just bleed away and NC St running it slowly and inevitably towards a chip shot field goal and I started preparing myself mentally for the loss. Being in a pissy mood at the tailgate, stewing the whole ride home, not watching any football the rest of the day, blocking out CFB media for the next few days, you know, the usual post-loss depression for those of us who take this thing way too seriously, and I realized "#### it's been a LONG time since I've felt that way."

We've been on one #### of a run the last few years and I for one have been too busy either looking forward to the next game or criticizing minutia on T-Net to fully appreciate how long it's been since I've gone through the post-game grieving process.

Do you realize, we haven't lost a game to an unranked team in 5 years?

We haven't lost a game at home in 3 years?

We haven't lost a regular season game or a conference game in 2 years?

I don't care how you're winning games, pretty, ugly, close, blowout, that's amazing.

We all know somewhere in the backs of our minds, that this run ain't gonna last forever. At some point we're going to drop a game to a conference team or an unranked team and it will seem like the end of the world. College football is cyclical like that. We've seen it happen to Oregon, Oklahoma, and Sanford this year. We've also seen it happen to the Coots, but in a very satisfying karmic way!

So maybe we all need to take a minute and appreciate where we are right now during the bye week.

GO TIGERS!!!