ON OUR PLANET THE SKY IS PAISLEY

Run Up the Score pretty much ordered me to make this a new post, so here goes: What college athletic program suffers from the greatest delusions of adequacy and relevance? Who out there is looking for the right combination of coaches and an AD to lead them back to a past that might never have happened? He nominated Arkansas, but noted that they’d have some measure of success recently, if “within the last fifteen years” counts as “recently.” I countered with Ole Miss, based on the notion that apparently Rebel football mattered at some point within the past half-century, but doggone if anybody not named Manning can remember it.

But who else deserves possible mention as “the most deluded fan base in college athletics”? Arizona State comes to mind, seeing as how I can’t think of a single truly significant athletic accomplishment of theirs in recent memory, unless 21 titles in women’s archery counts as a significant accomplishment. (Don’t bother mentioning five baseball titles; if you think that will win you any points around here, thanks for making your first visit.) But surely I’m missing some more. Readers? All six of you?