Some snowflakes want folks to agree with them no matter what...blow orange sunshine up their keesters. Others prefer to look a situation thru the lens of reality and form their own opinions. I choose the latter camp. I'll be around to eat crow if this team turns it around and wins out. Hope I get to do just that
Exactly. Yeah, not having Banks hurt us, but he's one player. How do you explain the other 10 plus backups. Everyone played like dog doo doo. We coached like dog doo doo. One would think that when a prominent player goes down, everyone else around him steps up their game to make up for his absence. This team did the exact opposite and that's a big red flag.
I think we had some big wins that broke some streaks that were really messing with the players and fans mindset. That alone made this season a step in the right direction. If this team somehow gets this thing back on course and beats vandy and our bowl opponent, it will be huge. At this point, beating vandy is non-negotiable. If we lose that game, I don't see this team being able to recover. Our so-called leaders have been Hooker and Banks respectively. Hooker is out. Banks is off course. Where does this team look for leadership on the field when things go against it? I'm not seeing that player.
Yep. The minute I see certain key words/phrases that include boat race, skull drag, trash or hot garbage, I dismiss that post out of hand. On any given day, a team can get whipped if it doesn't come to play. It could be N. Tex, Memphis St, Rutgers, Ga State, App state...no matter. But when you're facing an SEC opponent on the road, you damned well better be ready for a real fight. You let that opponent start feeling good and gain confidence and you're asking for trouble. By the time you wake up to the fact that you're in trouble, it's hard to really turn the jets back on and take control. I'm starting to look at this years team like Mike Tyson. He was considered invincible. He thought he was invincible. Then he meets Douglas and gets lit up. Now all of a sudden all the opponents know he's fallible and can be beaten. Worse yet, HE knows he can be beaten. Now it's not so easy. Now he's got to prepare like he's the underdog. Now he knows he's got to fight hard to win. That's pretty much where I see us now. What will our response be? I know what I expect to happen, and I sincerely hope I'm proven completely wrong.
Very true, but with him being a senior and having that experience, it makes it even more difficult to understand how he would allow something/anything to get in the way of him being in such an important game. The college football playoffs were right there for the taking. A veteran leader wouldn't allow anyone on the team to stray from the course much less that veteran leader doing it himself. At some point, I think we just need to understand and accept who and what Banks is. He's always been volatile. The question now is how far do you go with him? At some point, I'm going to consider my culture and locker room and protect them.
