The new coach is taking my cold, black heart and getting it pumping scarlet blood again.
After having season tickets for 15 years, and sitting through three years of countless blowout losses, you can color me a skeptic.
And it's hard not to be. Despite the front I've often put on here on this site, I think I've had an undercurrent of stink eye aimed at the program.
But, at this very moment, let me be honest: Steve Pikiell is pulling that skepticism right out of me and throwing it in the garbage.
Because every single move Pikiell has made from the moment he accepted the job has been the right one.