Sly Fox wrote:Places and auto bids are different discussions. Would I rather have a playoff bid than a share of the title? Obviously. But would I be very pleased to finish the season strong and share yet another championship? Under the circumstances, sure. I guess I have had time to digest the disappointment and I would like to end things on a positive note.
Even if claiming a "share" of the BS title contributes to a failing culture across the board in athletics? Why do people expect so little out of our athletics that they have to create these awards so that we can appreciate mediocrity?
I expect greatness. I came to Liberty because of the mindset that Christians should expect greatness, although, I understand that this principle is mainly to be applied to faith, why not apply to everything we do? My grandmother used to say, "It's a sin to do less than your best." I'm not advocating Liberty take a quote from my grandmother and make it the new slogan or whatever. But we seriously need to be changing the expectations of our athletics.
In my mind, bad is bad, average is average, good is good and great is great. But Liberty tends to believe that average is great when it comes to our sports teams. Why? I hate it.
What on earth did we gain from playing Brevard on Saturday? 7k fans show up? We let one of the worst college football teams in the country (all divisions combined) rack up 21 on us? We struggled early on to put away Brevard, BREVARD. We've struggled all year and you people still can't see the apathy in the football program.
Playoffs shouldn't be a dream, it should be an expectation. Championships should be a dream, and that dream should be attainable.
I do understand why we had to play Brevard. We really didn't have a choice, but the rest of it is pretty spot on
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