Well I finally did it. I have so much anticipation and anxiety built up from the off season that I decided to start my own blog. I've done this with the hope that I will be able to use this page to vent some seriously unfulfilled emotions that have gone unattended since early January. It's a proven fact: fans get emotional about college football, and in order to prepare for the upcoming season, I have chosen not to breakdown the teams and coaches and Heisman front-runners(at least not today), rather I will share some much-needed insight into the realm of the College Football Fan psyche. After all, we are emotional beings, so it will help us all to better understand the wide range of emotions we experience during football season. So each day this week I will breakdown one of the many powerful emotions associated with college football.
First there is Hope. Chances are your off season brought at least an assistant coaching change or two. You have read about the incoming freshman class, and have tried to decide which one is the next big star for your team. If you are a serious fan, you followed spring practice, and maybe even attended the spring scrimmage. You read every article and search for every press conference, looking for a sign, a reason to believe, a look in the coach's eye, something to tell you how good your team will be this year. You think that maybe, just maybe, this might finally be the year that everything falls into place, the year that the football bounces your way, the year that your team can overcome adversity and leave it all on the field and finally give you the right to call yourself a champion, because you deserve to be a winner, and although you can't play anymore, you can still live and win vicariously through your team. Through them, you can fulfill your deepest and wildest dreams. The season hasn't started yet, so all you can do is wait....and hope. Hope no one gets arrested. Hope everyone qualifies academically. Hope the five star recruit is for real. Hope you win the first game. Hope the coach gets in their heads and motivates them to win. Hope you are ranked in the preseason poll. Hope you can get tickets for the big games this year, unless you're already a season ticket holder, then you hope that nothing happens to your seats, or to your tickets, or to your health, or to do with anything in the world that could conceivably keep you from attending your games. You are nervous, anxious, proud, positive, negative, afraid, ready, and a little excited, but under all those feelings, you keep an even keel by holding on to the one thing that you can right now: Hope.
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