re: The Tide is turning

Pretty rich that you guys talk about the luck involved in going to and winning the NCG after your 2007 season. There is luck involved in just about every championship run. Suggesting luck was involved diminishes nothing. It's a necessary ingredient to a title run. 2011, while obviously unfortunate for you guys, happened exactly as it should, and I'm sure what irks you the most is knowing that any other team you would have been matched up against in that game would have been a mismatch much like Alabama and Notre Dame this past season, which is an implicit acknowledgement that the correct match-up was made. That season made it abundantly clear why a playoff was needed. Given the incredible talent of both teams in 2011, there is no reason either team should have been eliminated from title contention because they happened to play each other in the regular season, particularly after the first game they played.