re: My take on the season after this loss...

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see that's all great and all, but it's still a loss...

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Actually, no; "it" wasn't. "It" was a 40 point performance by a true freshman. "It" was a positive, and encouraging. Like having a kicker that can nail a 55 yard field goal is a good thing, and if you see your kicker go 3 for 3 from 55+, you know you have that. That's a positive. Whether you won that particular game or not, having a kicker that accurate from that range is a positive. That's the kind of positive I'm talking about.

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ahh, but now you are extrapolating and polarizing it to the extreme in each scenario

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Oh, okay. Good, because I was afraid it was you. You were talking about how every game was expected to be a win and every grade was expected to be an A, so there's no reason to celebrate any of them. That seemed pretty extreme.

Saban had a commentary on that, about how some people reach a point where winning isn't fun anymore, because all that matters is not losing. Winning is taken for granted, and thus becomes no reason to get excited. But losing becomes even more unacceptable, and thus grounds for even more negative reaction. He seemed to be talking about the Bama fan base, but I always wondered if he wasn't talking about himself as well. I guess I'm fortunate that I never got tired of winning, so I always feel like it's cause to celebrate (and so were both of my "A"s!). But as you say, different strokes for different folks.