The planets began to align on Friday Night in the New Sombrero as a most recent addition to Division One Football showed that a school with ZERO tradition could play under pressure against the conference leading unbeaten. It showed how a man can do so much with so little - and it didn't involve sneaking up on the unsuspecting in some kind of freakish fluke - the Bulls had done it the year before.
RESULT: Monvols become Bullish on Leavitt - the coach who didn't even have a D I team at USF when Fulmer & Co beat "the fourth best team in Florida" at the apex of the Fulmer career some DECADE in the past.
It happened again early on Saturday. The mighty Penn State Nittnay Lions roll into Champaign to face the coach that couldn't beat Tennessee with all the gold star goods in Gainesville. A team that had won but four Big 10 games in his 3 year tenure made Anthony Morrelli look like the walking disaster that he actually is. With Penn State within one score of taking the lead or tying the game, the last four drives all entered Illinios territory. They ended interception, interception, fumble, and interception. All on the head of Anthony Morelli. Four times the Lions had a chance to take the lead or tie the game. Four times Morelli blew it. And this is the same Anthony Morelli who looked like a golden God on that Tampa gridiron of the Bulls in January. Of course Morrelli had a clear advantage back in January - he was up against Phillip Fulmer charges - not the Fighting Zooksters.
RESULT: Monvols see that the decline of Tennessee Football under Fulmer has reached a new nadir. Zook is preferable to the giant Pumpkin
The following contest featured our next nemisis. The dawgs in Athens put 45 on the board against an Ol Miss team that came within a TD of beating the guys who handed us the worst loss of the FULMER era only a week before. The Dawgs were 28 points better than Florida vs Ol Miss and Florida was 39 points better than the Fulmer led Orange. That's a 61 point differential. Knowing the Dawgs enter Hard Knocksville on Saturday smarting from the 51 points UT posted in Athens a year ago, we can expect no apathy from Richt and Georgia. Home field advantage?
RESULT: Try four in a row for the Dawgs in Knoxville - at least this Monvol thinks so.
Dan Hawkins left the blue fields of Boise for the mile high mountains of Boulder and in a year shaped the happless Buffalo into Sooner Boomers.
RESULT: Monvolians know the Hawk could have done wonders in Knoxville.
Mack Brown from Cookeville TN. takes a pasting in Austin. UT two is in better shape than our UT
RESULT: Could Mack Brown want to come 'home'?
Later that afternoon the top 5 Cal Bears escape by the skin of a mishandled football an inch from goalline for the tying score. Ducks make Bears look mortal.
RESULT: Sheep still baaa baaa baaa about the only losses coming from away games to top 10 teams.
The capper:
Tubberville's Auburn Tigers gave the sheep some company in the 'teams with results worse than ours" category. Aubie had managed to lose to Miss State at home and topple New Mexico State. Now their win vs K State looks good and the loss to USF not so bad. So they roll into the Swamp where the sheep expect another beat down of 59-20 like proportions.
But a funny thing happened on the way to a second consecutive National Title for the Urban Crier's gaytors. Despite his desperate ploy pushing good sportsmanship to the brink a freshman kicker nails two 44 yard field goals in a row and it's bedlam in Knoxville.
RESULT: Sheep read the outcome as new life for the Vols
Monvols see the harsh reality. CPF's charges are 42 points worse than the 3 and 2 Auburn Tigers with Brandon freakin Cox at quarterback.
So it's Sheep Euphoric when it should be
FEAR AND LOATHING IN KNOXVILLE:
The Sheep are all wired into CPF's survival trip now. Fulmer's crashed around Tennessee selling "turn the corner" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that are lying in wait for all the people who take him seriously... All those pathetically eager orange sheep who think they can buy victory and championships for working like heck to fix it. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Fulmer takes down with him is the central illusion of a Championship seeking style that he helped create. Now a decade of permanent losers and failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the Big Orange culture: the desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force, was tending the light at the end of the tunnel.
We want to stay at that championship level and there is only one road back to the top - a flat-out high speed burn through Fulmer and Chavis and Cutcliffe too. Or it's straigh off the cliff and straight on into frantic oblivion. (apologies to HST may he RIP)
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