The long look back at what you’ve witnessed the past four years. The attempt to understand fully what these guys have done to establish this program against ridiculously stacked odds. The foggy projection of the short term future. The potential that remains stagnant until it is tested on the field of battle. The uncertainty and raw excitement of all that lies ahead.

Did you know that when I bring up BSU draftees like Kellen Moore (I express concerns on thsi site but nowhere outside the confines of OBNUG), Tyrone Crawford, Shea McClellin, George Illoka, and Doug Martin on my Dallas Cowboys blog that not only is it not met with laughter or complete ignorance of who those guys are, but it is met with genuine excitement and some understanding of who they are. Heck, in George and Shea’s cases, I didn’t even begin the conversations. OTHER PEOPLE spoke about these guys as draftees they would LOVE to see wearing the star in Big D. Folks, that is a massive breakthrough. You have Texas fans of pro football hoping against hope that some of our boys here FALL to them and they are LUCKY enough to grab even one of them.

This 50 win class may not have built the legacy bu themselves but they are the ones that made everyone else cognizant of what is going on up here. They’re the equivalent of the 101st Airborne, cutoff and surrounded in a little town called Bastogne, that faced tremendous odds and a certain death with guts, belief in themselves and their training, and a dogged determination to bow to no one….and they won the day.