anyone who went to a big monday game vs ou or kansas, or a cbs noon game vs ucla or villanova knows this. the FEC would be buzzing beforehand, and rocking throughout. ~17,000 people in attendance and plenty more who wanted to get in but couldn’t. people are just beaten down from the interminable roller coaster of Texas Baskerball, starting with the lows of the latter part of rick’s time here, to the high of shaka’s first year, to the many lows of his tenure, to the high of chris beard and his immediate success/revival of the program, to the low of his DV arrest/firing, to the spinning-our-wheels tenure of RT, to the new low of total and complete apathy at the hiring and performance of sean miller. we’re all here and ready to go, but we’ve been beaten down something fierce, and it’s going to take something that resembles the short lived beard era to get us back. we want to be all-in again, but this ain’t it.