If you’re looking for delusion, there’s no better place to find it than inside the world of college football.
This is the sport of FireRonZook.com, Phyllis from Mulga and mass tree murder, after all. Unreasonable expectations and unhinged fanaticism are as much a part of the game as marching bands and pregame tailgates.
It’s just a little unnerving when you hear it come out of an athletic director’s mouth. They’re supposed to be the grown-ups; the ones firmly tethered to reality. Yet all too often you find them selling the same sort of fantastical fever dreams you find in the darkest, most deranged corners of college football’s online universe.