dang.....what is in the blue koolaid?
This is the perfect storm and a fascinating year because we are now viewed as the team that symbolizes revolutionary change.
Any protected establishment fears revolutionaries. Fear them enough to kill. HIstory is certainly witness to this.
The fact that we are receiving exponentially more hatred & rhetorical rage than when we were the lovable underdog -- should not come as a big surprise.
Alabama, Ohio State and Nebraska are not only 3 of the best CFB teams -- they also have 3 of the largest fan bases -- and they all want the Crystal trophy.
The NC game is their Super Bowl and they do not want little Boise State anywhere near it. And yes, right now they hate us because we are agents of change. It is not personal -- it is the threat that we now represent. A threat to their sacred Crystal Football.
This threat is more real with the Va Tech and Oregon State victories paired with ESPN Game Day, The SI cover this week, etc. They were banking on a Boise State loss to Va Tech in DC. I don't think they really believed it would go this far. But here we are. Now Boise State is an imminent threat to shatter a comfortable world that has been around much longer than the BCS.
To the SEC we are Abraham Lincoln, Bobby Kennedy and MLK all rolled into one...so get used to the hatred. It is not going away if we keep winning impressively. We are the threat. All other threats have been or are being dealth with.
The establishment is buying off Utah and TCU. BYU is going it alone, trying to follow Notre Dame. Yet, because we are still a little too small -- so the BCS star chamber can't really buy us out right now -- so they must find a way to take us down a couple notches.
None of this is happening by mistake. These moves are being carefully ochestrated. For example, it is no mistake that TCU was approached by the Big East as opposed to the Big12. Why? Because the BCS kills 2 birds with one stone: 1. Get TCU out of the picture 2. Shore up a dreadful Big East.
The media is kind of our only friend right now. Yet, they too will turn on a dime if we stumble in the least. Good theatre for sure.