Sounds a lot like a fanbase typically does when they have a Ewing Theory team but they don’t know it for sure until the end.
Phase 1: Underestimation. Thinking your team is going to have a down season because a star or multiple stars departed and you’re left with a likable but seemingly “low ceiling” team.
Phase 2: Surprise. The pleasant, but guarded, realization that your team might actually be good, cohesive and more enjoyable to watch without those stars from last season.
Phase 3: Denial. Here is where this unpleasant, jaded, know-it-all, simply bad message board currently sits.
@mepanchin @NCCUknow. Denying what you’re seeing with your own eyes, denying the objective numbers being put out by reliable indicators like Kenpom and Sagarin, denying the potential greatness of your Ewing Theory team so much that you can’t even enjoy it while it’s happening.
Phase 4: Acceptance. This is where you go next, probably around midway through the ACC schedule. Unfortunately, you have a national championship contender to root for. Poor Duke basketball fans. You’ll have to live with another riveting March Madness where the minimum objective is a Final Four. Get over it.
Phase 5: Championship. This is where Big Vern is taking you, despite your constant whining and doting over days past with Zion, RJ and Cam, who you somehow forget were underachieving losers. Big Vern is following in the footsteps of legends like Tee Martin, Stephen Strasburg and Kemba Walker.
I’d say “enjoy the ride” but I know none of you will. You’ll be miserable all season, like you always are.
Still can’t believe this message board ostracized and chased off
@Twentytwenty for being “too optimistic” and “too correct.” What a joke.
