I'll admit it--I'm a Monica.
I'm not free-spirited enough to be a Phoebe; I'm not a boy-crazy daddy's girl like Rachel. But more importanty, I am a bit compulsive, a little too prone to perfectionism (you don't even want to know how long it takes me to compose these posts), all about the babies, and unfortunately, too hung up on winning and being right. I know, more than Monica seems to most of the time, that's it's pretty insufferable for the people around you if you too often trumpet your own rightness.
Still, on some occasions, I can't help but say it.
I was right.
I can say that it's Day 38 of my vendetta, but in actuality, I've been shaking my head in disbelief at the people on the FranWagon since I watched the news conference that was held the day he was hired at Texas A&M.
I was right on that morning of December 5th, 2002, that the man was classless and no good.
I was right all through the nightmare of the 2003 season that he was a terrible coach.
People kept saying that it was that he didn't have his players yet. R.C. Slocum had "left the cupboard bare"; Fran needed guys who were on board with "his system."
Then it became that one recruiting class, two recruiting classes, wasn't enough. It had to be all of them. Any player so much as looked at by R.C. Slocum had to graduate. Then it would finally be Fran's year. I didn't believe them.
Those people were wrong.
I was right.
We were supposedly turning a corner in 2004. We . . . at least got to a bowl game. But we were promised somebody who might give us one bad year, followed by a really really good one--not an OK one. I didn't think he deserved an extremely lucrative contract extension.
Bill Byrne was wrong.
I was right.
Thanks to yet another mediocre season (which, natch, I saw coming), on top of which has been thrown this whole stupid VIP Connection thing (admittedly, not as obvious to predict), now everybody sees it. The media keeps telling me that Fran should be fired.
Gee, really?
Despite my being Monica, I wish I had been wrong. Five years of mediocre football for a school whose students, alumni, and fans take such pride in their traditions and love their football so desperately--that isn't worth it to save me from being wrong. I would have LOVED to have been wrong.
But I was right.
5 comments:
I understand Garden City Community College will be needing a coach next year.
remember when we were walking across campus sometime (probably after a late-night wal-mart run) and this one reporter outside of kyle field told us that fran was going to be the new coach and it was like, a big deal because nobody knew yet? did you know then?
I have no memory of that. Are you sure I was there? If so, I'm pretty bummed out that I don't remember.
I guess there's a slim chance it could've been someone else, but I'm pretty sure it was you. I think we were walking back from the way far away parking lots after going to wal-mart of something.
also, it was at night. if that helps.
Post a Comment