Confidence is a funny thing.
It's so important, but sometimes difficult to measure and even more difficult to find.
Getting it – or keeping it – can be like using your hands to bail water out of a leaky rowboat.
Losing it can be as easy and quick as watching a lit match drowned out by a driving rainstorm.
But there's been no washing out of the Bears' flame so far in the Valley season. Two early victories have been enough to keep the flame – and their game – lit.
The Bears are 11-4 overall, for the second-best 15-game start for the team in the last 10 years, behind only the 12-3 mark from the 2009-10 squad.