When “A Win Is A Win”

We have been hearing a lot from the coaches and from chatter on the boards about this often used phrase "a win is a win" in relation to the near loss against BYU at home last week.  DC DeWayne Walker used this argument to explain away the poor performance of his "we accept nothing less than total domination" defense.  Walker went so far as to say that he didn't care about any statistics other than the final score!!  Ok. Right. What happened to the desire to be "the best defense in the nation?"  It's not even mid-September and Walker has already ditched that goal. You see this again and again on the boards … the blindos and Dorrell cultists professing that they never cared about stats to begin with, that it was always about the W. Yep.

It would be too easy, but wasted time, to go back and point out the numerous times that these very same people

1. praised the stats (in relation to last year's defense) so much that they expected a "best defense in the nation" this year, and
2. talked on an on about "winning isn't everything" and that "character, integrity and running a clean program" were just as, if not more, important than winning (convenient when we were losing last year, but they dropped that point when we kept a multiple convict on as a coach).

Well now we know that it's all about the W (thank you Eric Scott and DeWayne Walker) and we know that stats don't mean anything so long as we win (thank you Karl Dorrell and DeWayne Walker).  But what happens when we lose??!!  What will be the excuses then?  Right now the line is being drawn in the sand:  A W is a W.  When the first loss comes, as it will, we GUARANTEE it won't be about the W anymore.  Oh no. The blindos and the Dorrell cultists will most certainly drop that convenient excuse for any number of trusted standbys:  bad calls, injuries, "winning isn't everything," "Tedford hasn't gone to a BCS game (??!!)," "If the receiver hadn't dropped the pass" etc. etc. etc.  Excuses, as always.  And Dorrell and the coaches, trained as they are, will most assuredly find someone to throw under the bus … the scapegoat artists will show up for work then. 

Dorrellistas, the cultists and the blindos, will ALWAYS find an excuse - they even shamelessly recycle them.  They will discard them as meaningless one week only to rediscover their saline comfort and use them the next. The hypocrisy and doubletalk are repulsive and represent all that is wrong with our program.  We have seen it before with Lavin.  For those of us who expect more, at least we know we came out the other side of that Lavinista black hole with Howland, integrity and pride.  The odd thing is that Lavin may, and we say MAY, turn out to be the final piece of evidence the football program needed to get a real coach … at long last.

In the meantime we have to deal with the sad spectacle that Dorrell has made of our football program, when "a win is a win" rings as hollow and false as OJ's insistence of innocence.  Be ready for more after we blow out Utah … the day will surely come when all this nonsense will be tested.

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