Post by 98hoya on Sept 23, 2010 15:59:40 GMT -5
I'm usually able to make it Homecoming, but unfortunately I can't this year. It's killing me because I believe that this Homecoming has the potential to mark a turning point in the program. For the first time...ever (?)....I sense a buzz about the team.
As best I can tell, it's taken 3 weeks for this program to go from a total embarrassment on campus to a source of optimism. Just read the coverage in The Hoya and The Voice over the last few weeks: after beating Davidson, it was like "the sad-sacks finally won one;" after beating Lafayette, it was like "hey, these losers might not be such losers any more;" and, after a moral victory vs. Yale, people all of the sudden started to see a spark and believe a new era is dawning.
It's not just the campus papers where it's noticeable: we've got people from the basketball board who are huge hoops supporters rediscovering Hoyas football and wanting to give the team a shout-out, we've got people on the 1-AA "Any Given Saturday" board who have mocked Georgetown for years who are confidently picking us to win this weekend, we've even got people voting for the Georgetown Hoyas to be ranked in the FCS top 25. This is new, amazing, fantastic stuff...and a win this Saturday will be HUGE in front of the alumni-heavy crowd.
Homecoming is the team's best opportunity to show everyone who comes back to campus that this is a new year and a corner has been turned, never to be un-turned. So...I hope our guys go out and make it happen this Saturday. I also hope that people will some day recognize Homecoming 2010 as THE game when the football team reasserted itself as a group worthy of respect and support.
Go get 'em, guys. Have fun, do your best and hoya saxa!
As best I can tell, it's taken 3 weeks for this program to go from a total embarrassment on campus to a source of optimism. Just read the coverage in The Hoya and The Voice over the last few weeks: after beating Davidson, it was like "the sad-sacks finally won one;" after beating Lafayette, it was like "hey, these losers might not be such losers any more;" and, after a moral victory vs. Yale, people all of the sudden started to see a spark and believe a new era is dawning.
It's not just the campus papers where it's noticeable: we've got people from the basketball board who are huge hoops supporters rediscovering Hoyas football and wanting to give the team a shout-out, we've got people on the 1-AA "Any Given Saturday" board who have mocked Georgetown for years who are confidently picking us to win this weekend, we've even got people voting for the Georgetown Hoyas to be ranked in the FCS top 25. This is new, amazing, fantastic stuff...and a win this Saturday will be HUGE in front of the alumni-heavy crowd.
Homecoming is the team's best opportunity to show everyone who comes back to campus that this is a new year and a corner has been turned, never to be un-turned. So...I hope our guys go out and make it happen this Saturday. I also hope that people will some day recognize Homecoming 2010 as THE game when the football team reasserted itself as a group worthy of respect and support.
Go get 'em, guys. Have fun, do your best and hoya saxa!
