Football fun

Short couple of notes, as there's not much going on yet this week, but I did promise to blog consistently.

First, there's a story on Friday's paper about CCSU playing in a lot of big-event kind of games in recent years. The Blue Devils should be pretty good at handling this stuff by now.

Working on the football preview for Saturday's paper. I've come to the conclusion that this is a big one for the Blue Devils, and not in the fun way. If they win, they were supposed to because the opponent is winless. If they don't, well, very few will know that the opposition was talented, just that is was winless.

They say with expectation comes responsibility. My guess is the more workman-like vibe I get from the team this year is a product of that. The program's gains in popularity over the last five years have raised the stakes. Sometimes I wonder if that's good or bad.

Perhaps it's just the different mentalities of different sports. Basketball, which ironically has been one of the more successful programs at Central, has a different atmosphere around it. There's just as much pressure, and no one outworks a Coach D team, but the wins seem like they are greeted with enthusiasm, whereas the football team's wins are greeted with relief and the immediate sense of worry heading to the next week.

Do you guys think that's a fan thing? A sport thing? Or did your favorite CCSU beat writer make that up in his crazy head?

Anyway, Saturday's story will have the QB plan for the week as well as the usual breakdown.

And X: Based on the hits and emails I get, I think the blog is doing ok. And now that I've gotten the hang of it a touch, we're going to start doing bigger and better things with it soon. By the time hoops rolls around, this will be a place to be for CCSU fans I hope. Does anyone talk CCSU football? Clearly you haven't met Hud!

Ok, that turned into more than a couple of short notes. Back to work. I'll see all 9,000 of you on Saturday. Should be interesting. And stay after the game to see the band.