Source: arizona.sbnation.com --- Friday, November 16, 2012
If I would have told you before the season that a rebuilding Arizona State football program had a legitimate chance at going 7-5, how many of you would have laughed in my face and/or questioned if I was on bath salts? I think that "a majority of the college football watching human race" is probably a fair assessment. So please tell me why with a 5-5 record and two very winnable games left on tap is Sun Devil nation so quick to express their disappointment? I'll tell you why: because of those damn, meddling schedule makers! If the Devils were 5-5 but just won and lost games in normal succession like any other average, middle-of-the-pack program, fans would be perfectly content with the job Todd Graham has done. Instead, ASU is handed a laughably easy start to their conference schedule to inflate everyone's expectations (including my own). Then, just when everyone is riding high and most vulnerable to a huge emotional letdown, they dish out the most difficult second half schedule that I can remember in all my time watching Arizona State. Not helping the matter was that the wounds from 2011's epic meltdown weren't even fully healed by the time Oregon began swiftly kicking ASU in the balls with the sledgehammer of reality (Graphic, I know but I've never been too graceful with my metaphors). Perhaps if the sting of last year's face plant wasn't still so fresh in fans' minds, this season's turn of events wouldn't have been so doubly de ...
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