re: At Alabama, "everyday is a reckoning."

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Nah, I'd be doing exactly what you all are doing and rubbing it in everyone's faces so I'm not blaming you

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Well, I try not to do that, but there certainly are others who do

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But playing a season where you already know the outcome outside of maybe 1 or 2 games has to get old. There's no true emotion or excitement anymore.

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It's certainly different than it was in 2008 and 2009. Those years brought the kind of unbridled excitement and joy that only years of suffering and hoping and finally breaking through can bring (as you guys know from 2010 and 2013). And there is definitely more of a nervousness surrounding the couple of big games in the regular season, where wins are just more of a relief than pure joy. Winning in Atlanta or in the Playoffs is still pretty much pure joy, though, and that will never fade.

And for all of us who vividly remember seasons where we didn't know the outcomes of games in advance (1997-2007 specifically) (or did know the outcome in advance and knew it would suck), this is much more enjoyable .