When I saw Alabama flash on screen at 9 I knew that meant we were cooked because it hit me right then that the process wasn't honest and this had been rigged. The switch up of the rankings the Tuesday prior and the fishy justification, it all just clicked into place. I was angry about it, I'm still angry. But, ultimately, life goes on. Good or bad. "This too shall pass," is the rule of life and we move forward. There is nothing I as an individual can really do about it other than voice my displeasure, but I have to trust that the ND leadership is working to make sure something like this doesn't happen again.
In the end, I feel the most of the team as their story will remain unwritten and will go into the great pile of "what if" teams from throughout the ages.
The hate and everything that's all over social media and the non-stop hate campaign waged by ESPN, that kind of shit gives me life. It means we're trending in the right direction.
Pete Bevacqua said the rankings up until the final ones are a "farce." Where I disagree, is that all of the rankings, including (especially?) the final ones are a farce. It's a political process and the CFP is an ESPN invitational tournament. You can't really let that shit get you down.
And if you can't shake it, the feelings of anger or whatever emotions you carry, as Dostoyevsky (is alleged to have) said, "the darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer to God."
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