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<blockquote data-quote="TheGridironGeek" data-source="post: 120056" data-attributes="member: 1898"><p>This touches on a broader point about GT football. Would you really WANT to be Alabama or Florida State? To me, winning is far less fun when you have all sorts of advantages and the media/money is all on your side. </p><p></p><p>Near my home town, there's a little private HS that just does everything it can to have a fantastic talent advantage. They beat up on every small school in the county every year, and this season they won the state championship (again) in the lowest enrollment class (which they manipulate their enrollment #s to stay in) in a blowout after going 14-0 (again). Somehow, their fans delude themselves by saying it's all "hard work and heart" but deep down we all know what's up. Practically everyone who broadcasts local football here is a booster or ex-jock for the program as well. </p><p></p><p>I don't know how anyone could be fulfilled cheering for someone like that. "Yay! We won again! With a size and speed advantage like the Green Bay Packers in the Sun Belt conference! Woe to our slow, small, under-funded foes in the lowest enrollment class! Woo!" </p><p></p><p>Two years ago, they lost to a tiny local public school by blowing a 3 touchdown lead, and it was so incredibly awesome. The postgame radio show was a cross between a wake and a mass suicide. </p><p>To me, someone popping that balloon one time was worth more than a million of their manufactured titles. </p><p></p><p>Ultimately it's more fun NOT to have the advantage. It's more fun when the media & big dollars are against you but you win anyway. To hear fat ex-SEC coaches sit on TV and say, "Jor-Ja Take has a nahce leetle offayence, but (insert glamor team X) will handle 'em"... Then seeing their faces and demeanor change to fear and panic at halftime when it's not happening. </p><p></p><p>It's more fun to crash the party. I'm glad there's a grassroots Twitter/Reddit surge of respect & support for CPJ & GT but I sincerely hope the media keeps treating them like unwelcome intruders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheGridironGeek, post: 120056, member: 1898"] This touches on a broader point about GT football. Would you really WANT to be Alabama or Florida State? To me, winning is far less fun when you have all sorts of advantages and the media/money is all on your side. Near my home town, there's a little private HS that just does everything it can to have a fantastic talent advantage. They beat up on every small school in the county every year, and this season they won the state championship (again) in the lowest enrollment class (which they manipulate their enrollment #s to stay in) in a blowout after going 14-0 (again). Somehow, their fans delude themselves by saying it's all "hard work and heart" but deep down we all know what's up. Practically everyone who broadcasts local football here is a booster or ex-jock for the program as well. I don't know how anyone could be fulfilled cheering for someone like that. "Yay! We won again! With a size and speed advantage like the Green Bay Packers in the Sun Belt conference! Woe to our slow, small, under-funded foes in the lowest enrollment class! Woo!" Two years ago, they lost to a tiny local public school by blowing a 3 touchdown lead, and it was so incredibly awesome. The postgame radio show was a cross between a wake and a mass suicide. To me, someone popping that balloon one time was worth more than a million of their manufactured titles. Ultimately it's more fun NOT to have the advantage. It's more fun when the media & big dollars are against you but you win anyway. To hear fat ex-SEC coaches sit on TV and say, "Jor-Ja Take has a nahce leetle offayence, but (insert glamor team X) will handle 'em"... Then seeing their faces and demeanor change to fear and panic at halftime when it's not happening. It's more fun to crash the party. I'm glad there's a grassroots Twitter/Reddit surge of respect & support for CPJ & GT but I sincerely hope the media keeps treating them like unwelcome intruders. [/QUOTE]
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