re: Let's all take a moment to point and laugh at what is going down on the 40 Acres

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We couldn't see the Franness in front of our faces back then, and neither can they.

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That's the very problem with Fran-ness. Ask Tennessee fans. When you are face-to-face with a Fran, as a college football fan, you find yourself eating up all the tough talk and kicking players off the team and gimmicks like spreadsheets of analysis and the pit and Night of Champions and the recruiting classes inflated by kids who never make it to campus. I'm sure that people who have lived in dictatorial regimes with a cult of personality and live to see the other side feel the same way about their time "under the spell" of a consciously manipulative leader.