After another unreal bowl game victory, I can't help but think about the unanswered question from last year. While in Tempe, for the historic BCS bustin' opponent crushing dynasty of Urban Meyer, I couldn't help but feel a little bitterness for a system that could allow a team to go totally untested all year long. How could the supposed "learned" allow themselves to make millions off of collegiate sports, denying any sponsorship or payment for these athletes, turn around and say because of money we cannot allow a playoff or system that is actually fair or that presents a clear champion?
Enough of the negative, this season checkered with defeat and mediocrity made this ending all the more sweet. I can easily say this year's ending is much better in my books, for I can sleep easy knowing we fought the good fight. I can say it no better than John F. Kennedy on Theodore Roosevelt in December of '61
Daring Greatly
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man
stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and
again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a
worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement; and
who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never
be with those cold and timid souls who know neither defeat nor victory.
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