Yes, we all can relate. Every time I watch the highlights of the Iowa game and Ayo and Underwood going through and high-fiving all the crowd after the win, which was absolutely awesome and one of the best moments I've had following Illini sports in ages, I can't help but think how much has changed in just FOUR days (and how now just a few days later you would never see people doing what Underwood and Ayo did). Sunday night when we were all going nuts celebrating that win, who would have thought this is where we'd be Thursday night? My goodness.
I've got to find something to take my mind off this - not looking forward to when 1:30 rolls around tomorrow thinking it should be Illinois BTT time, not looking forward to 5 p.m. Sunday, not looking forward to next Thursday 11 a.m.....and yes, I get that basketball is just meaningless compared to everything else, and I get we're just fans and it is so much worse for Ayo, Feliz and the rest, but for those of us who love Illinois sports like the people on this board, it also is extremely painful for us. Maybe it shouldn't be, maybe we shouldn't care so much, but all of us here do.