There is a special, or rather important, moment in the life of every sports fan when they realize that expectations and reality do not always align.
I recall one such moment being the 1999 Motor City Bowl between my beloved Cougars and the Marshall Thundering Herd. Two days prior, I had received a BYU football jersey (Rob Morris’s #44) and I was certain that my favorite team and favorite player were going to dominate this team from West Virginia. For those of you who have blocked this game from your memory, it did not go as planned.
The Cougars jumped out to a 3-0 lead but then things went downhill.