Late night thoughts and a couple of links

Quick post on a Wednesday night. Interesting week for a UK Football Fan. We are faced with a must win game against what should be an overmatched opponent in EKU. Losing this game would be Catastrophic, but it isn't likely. Assuming we do win, we face what will be one of the most important UK Football games of the decade at Vandy. Sound melodramatic? Not at all. If this team doesn't get to a bowl because it lost to both Vandy and Mississippi State, we will have coughed up nearly all the momentum we've gained over the past three years. This has to happen. Nothing else is acceptable.

This wasn't supposed to be a rebuilding year. A solid O-line, the starter at quarterback, the team's best athlete and two studs at key positions on defense all returned. Next year, we'll be without Trevard, Micah, Maxwell, Connor, Peters, Jorge Gonzales, Zipp Duncan, Jordan Jeffries and more. That may be the rebuilding year. We need the extra practice and momentum a bowl will provide if we have any hope of moving the program forward in the next 2-3 years.

So, the Vandy game is huge. But so it this one. Because if we don't get it, the whole rest of the season is for naught.

Against this backdrop, there are two ways you can go. And a couple of blogs I follow were kind enough to do so. Truzenzuzex over at A Sea of Blue decides to ignore the chances of losing to Eastern and instead focus on whether we can pick up two more SEC wins. On the other hand, Christopher Johns over at KSR says that the EKU game makes him nervous.

I'm kind of in the middle. EKU is the ultimate trap because it seems foregone, our sixth win cannot come until the following week, and Vandy is always a dogfight. Still, the point on ASOB is a good one. We don't have to play, so we can afford to look ahead. And if we don't win this Saturday, the whole thing is shot to hell anyway. So why not.

Personally, I just hope the team and the crowd show up Saturday. More to come.