Weird positivity/hope tumor growing in me

The longer it goes since I have seen Tennessee play football, the more optimistic I become about their immediate and long-term prospects. No new information or logical thought is taking place. This is purely a change in emotion while being presented the same facts.

Is this common? Do any of you guys get this way during off seasons, byes, or breaks? If this isn't unique, what should we call this syndrome?

I fear the cure is worse than the disease...

 

Start chemo.

Immediately.

 

hope springs eternal. don't fight it. let it flow. how bad can it be? we knew in august we were a .500 team so, win or lose, we're pretty close to the mark.

gbfo

 

In the absence of unavoidable evidence to the contrary, the human mind almost always hopes for and convinces itself of the very best.

See if this helps, IP: Ask someone to tell you who our starting left and right tackles will be next season. Or, the next. Or, the next.

That should do it.

Once the shoulder-heaving sobs somewhat subside, you'll realize that we are going to be perennially capped at winning no more than 9 regular season games, in our best years, for the foreseeable future.

GBMFO

 

It's not like left and right tackles are that important anyway.

 

I'm the opposite. I'm less optimistic than I was. If that was even possible

 

Ya, that did it. Thanks.

 

We hardly use them!

 

Sorry, friend. I wish it weren't true.

 

They really aren't, unless you want to pass the ball. Or, run it.

 

You mean like forward?

 

You need to either put the pipe down, or pass it around to the rest of us.

 

Yes, at least intentionally.

You can't always count on a favorable forward-bounce as your QB gets blown up and fumbles.

 

As a true vol fan, I am strongly considering the needle.

 

i'm opimistic that we won't be embarrassing any more, at some point, but i'm afraid that's the ceiling

 

Can't inject myself. Tried to inject water in my belly skin. Couldn't do it. God bless diabetics.

 

I can't name Alabama's starting right or left tackle, or the next. But I bet they'll still be good.

Boom. Y'all just got VN logic'd.

 

done and done.

 

I have given myself north of 1,900 shots in the last 10 1/2 years.

You can do more than you think when you have to. You get used to it.