Being a Wildcat Fan

Being a Wildcat fan isn't easy. Just when you think things are going well, something happens to deflate you . . . as in 1998 Big 12 Conference Championship. And just when everyone thinks the team has no prayer to win, the 'Cats pull off a surprising victory . . . basketball against #1 KU when Jim Wooldridge was coach, for example.

Yesterday was one of the "no prayer to win" times. Nearly every analyst in the nation was picking Miami to clobber the 'Cats. My brother even told me we needed to realize the Las Vegas line was the temperature for the day, and we needed to go play golf. Thank goodness we didn't listen to him. Although the 'Cats kept us nervous throughout the game, they managed to pull out a tough, gritty, nailbiting win against the Miami Hurricanes. Who would have thought it could happen?

Bill did. The team did. All the rest of us of little faith seem to forget that Bill Snyder is on our side. As Mitch Holthus would say, "It was a big, big, big Wildcat win."