You know, there's something oddly charming, yet sad at the same time, about a fanbase that is as delusional as this one is. It's usually fun trying to rile up a good fanbase -- think LSU or Auburn -- but one of the prerequisites to a good back-and-forth is being somewhat grounded in reality. When we beat LSU or Auburn or Ole Miss or Tennessee, it feels like we've done something we can crow about. After this Liberty Bowl? I'll feel bad coming on here and attempting to talk trash. K-Staters are like, "We are to college football what Kentucky is to college basketball." And the sad thing is I think they actually believe it.
It's like that movie from a few years back where Leonardo DiCaprio thought for a whole movie that he was an FBI agent investigating murders on a prison island, only to realize at the very end that he was a mental patient and the whole thing was therapy designed to get him to understand he was crazy and had killed his wife. K-State is exactly that -- a mental patient so deluded that reality could slap them on the ass and they'd swear they were all running the show. But after we shellac them in Memphis, they won't realize anything. They'll just go on chirping about all the championships they've won and all the hurt they put on their second-rate conference and blah blah blah blah. Meanwhile, we'll tackle our top-of-the-heap schedule next year and continue earning respect from the non-mental patients of the college football world.
