I'm usually an optimist concerning most things. I'm the guy who sat in front of the television every Saturday afternoon during the 2007 football season yelling obscenities and screaming that the football team wasn't playing as well as I thought they should. They weren't playing up to my expectations, even though the expectations I had for the team were founded in wishful thinking rather than sound logic or reason. I had deluded myself into imagining that even though the team was full of underclassmen starting at key positions, that somehow the Irish persevere and have a real shot at pulling off a marginally-successful season. Did I learn anything from that year-long lesson in wishful-thinking?

Most Irish fans entered this season c...

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